the US President Joe Biden said Tuesday October 11th, 2022 have “not the intention” to meet Vladimir Poutine at the next G20 summit, but added ” it depends “especially if the Russian president wants evoke the fate of an American detained in Russia.
“I have no intention of meeting him. But if, for example, he came to see me at the G20 and said, ‘I want to talk about the release of (American women’s basketball star Brittney) Griner’, I would meet him. What I mean is that it depends”he said in an interview with the chain CNN.
The American president, on the other hand, affirmed to refuse “to negotiate anything with Russia about them staying in Ukraine, keeping part of Ukraine”.
Asked about the possibility of Vladimir Putin using nuclear weapons, Joe Biden replied: “I don’t think he will. But I think it’s irresponsible of him to talk about it.”.
Faced with stubborn Ukrainian resistance, fueled by Western military aid, Vladimir Putin alluded to the atomic bomb in a televised speech on September 21.
Joe Biden had warned Thursday of a risk of“Armageddon” nuclearthat is to say of the apocalypse, which the world would face for the first time since the Cold War.
He claimed that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin had “clearly” misjudged the situation in Ukraine and had “Made a complete miscalculation” on the resistance it would encounter.
“I think he is a rational person who clearly misjudged” the situation, Joe Biden said in an interview with CNN, which released some quotes ahead of Tuesday night’s scheduled broadcast.
“He thought he was going to be welcomed with open arms. […] and I think he made a complete miscalculation.”explained the American president about his Russian counterpart.
The American press denounces the lack of aid from France
The very influential washington post published an article, Tuesday, October 11, 2022, evoking President Emmanuel Macron’s promise to increase military support for the Ukrainians. But the daily wonders “if the French will live up to their promises”. The newspaper also relays criticism of the positioning “humiliating” of France among the arms suppliers to Ukraine. Paris indeed ranks 11th – behind small countries such as Estonia and the Czech Republic – for a country that “wants to be one of the main military powers of the European Union”.
The Washington Post also notes the President of the Republic’s announcement of the creation of a fund of 100 million euros which will enable Ukraine to obtain arms, a sum ” far behind “ the 17 billion provided by the United States since the beginning of the war. “Whatever the obstacle” to military supplies to Ukraine, “Paris must overcome it”judges the newspaper’s editorial board in a paper calling on NATO to support Ukraine and deliver better air defense systems.
France is expanding its arsenal to secure the seabed
France will be equipped in the coming months with its first robots capable of operating in deep waters as part of a broader military program intended to prevent any hybrid threat such as attacks against its submarine cables.
The alleged sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea at the end of September reinforced the concern of Western countries about the vulnerability of their strategic infrastructures – telecommunications, energy among others – resting on the seabed, particularly those located at depths of 3,000 to 6,000 meters.
At the moment, only the American, Russian and Chinese armies, as well as private companies, have autonomous underwater robots (AUVs, according to the English acronym) and remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs) designed for such depths.
France, the second maritime power on the planet, has only two robots capable of diving to 2,000 meters. While 450 cables ensure the transit of 98% of digital communications throughout the world, the country has around fifty cables for mainland France and overseas territories, which exposes it particularly to the risks of sabotage, accident or even theft, according to official sources.
No ‘constructive offer’ of talks from Lavrov
Washington does not see Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s statement that Moscow is open to discussing the war in Ukraine with the West as a “constructive and legitimate offer” to engage in dialogue, US State Department spokesman Ned Price said on Tuesday.
Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that Russia was open to a possible meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart Joe Biden at the upcoming G20 summit and that he would consider the proposal if it came to him be submitted.
The head of Russian diplomacy specified that Russia was ready to hear any suggestion concerning peace talks but that he could not commit in advance to the outcome of such a process.