A CNN correspondent praised President Joe Biden’s “impressively productive” connection with Russian President Vladimir Putin this week, citing Putin’s eagerness to agree to a five-year extension to the New START nuclear weapons treaty.
“It certainly seems to have been very productive, in fact, impressively productive,” said Frederik Pleitgen during a live dispatch from Moscow.
“It really looks like it’s a totally different way of handling these calls in the Biden administration than it was in the Trump administration.”
Pleitgen framed the extension of the New START treaty as a place where Biden succeeded where former President Donald Trump failed, but the Trump administration purposely waited until last year to start negotiations on extending the pact and issued unmet demands, how China adheres to the agreement.
The deal limits nuclear arsenals to 1,550 strategic warheads, but does not cover tactical nuclear weapons, a fact noted by critics like Senator Tom Cotton, R-Ark.
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As Pleitgen noted in the clip signaled by Mediaite, Putin was eager to accept the terms. He immediately signaled to Parliament to ratify the deal after ending his connection with Biden.
Pleitgen noted in his laudatory report that he had to leave the White House to read the call, which stated that Biden and Putin touched on issues such as Biden’s support for Ukraine’s sovereignty, the Solarwinds hack, reports of Russian rewards to American soldiers in Afghanistan, and the poisoning of Putin’s opposition leader, Aleksey Navalny.
“It certainly seems to have yielded some very early and very quick results,” said Pleitgen.
The credulous coverage of the new Biden government has been part of a liberal network pattern for the past eight days.
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Brian Stelter of CNN called White House press secretary Jen Psaki “invigorating” after a week in office. White House correspondent John Harwood was widely criticized for tweet the declaration of “truth” and “knowledge” had returned, and climate correspondent Bill Weir declared that Biden had promised “to help prevent the fossil fuel suicide that cooks the planet and changes the climate”.
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Trump was often criticized for being too respectful of Putin after intelligence agencies concluded that he interfered in the 2016 election to boost Trump, but the Trump administration has also taken aggressive positions against Russia, including the withdrawal of the Reach Nuclear Forces agreement Intermediate, bombing Putin as an ally Bashar al-Assad’s forces in Syria, authorizing several sanctions packages against Moscow and encouraging NATO allies to increase defense spending to contain Russia’s evil influence.