‘There Were No Threats’: Biden Says the ’Last Thing' Putin Wants Is a New Cold War

(Left) President Joe Biden waits to speak as he visits the Sportrock Climbing Centers in Alexandria, Va., on May 28, 2021. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images); (Right) Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during a meeting with members of the Council of Legislators of the Federal Assembly, at the Tauride Palace, in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on April 27, 2021. Alexei Danichev/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images

Following a closed-door meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Joe Biden said his agenda isn’t designed to go “against Russia” but that he’s attempting to promote the interests of “the American people.”

The two leaders met for about 3 1/2 hours in Geneva, after both acknowledged that U.S.–Russia relations were at their lowest point in decades.