The U.S. and Russian presidents were joined by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for a photo at the summit in Geneva. Photo by Kevin Lamarque/Global Media/Reuters.

The Biden-Putin summit is open to many interpretations. One of the more plausible is that the U.S. has given up on changing Russia’s behavior.

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