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After all that, it came down to this: ambassadors and nuclear weapons.nnU.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Geneva on June 16 for their first summit — five months after Biden took office, and more than 21 years since Putin first did. With bilateral relations spiraling into potentially dangerous territory, both leaders, and their advisers, had telegraphed their goals ahead of time.

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