The mass media have shed plenty of heat but not much light on the White House meeting between British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the Collective Biden on Friday the 13th—to discuss, among other things, a joint strategy for giving the green light for launching long-range guided missiles deep into Russia from Ukrainian territory. The official White House readout only stated that “the leaders had an in-depth discussion on a range of foreign policy issues of mutual interest,” including Ukraine, Iran, North Korea, Russia, China, Israel’s security, U.S.-U.K. cooperation on clean energy, AUKUS, “as well as opportunities to deepen our strong U.S.-U.K. economic ties.”
They did all of that in 20 (twenty!) minutes, according to an informative article in Politico. The two leaders then spent another 90 minutes with their respective teams, to hammer things out. Biden was his usual eloquent self in his responses to shouted questions from the press: “Asked what he made of Putin saying such an act would put NATO countries `at war with Russia,’ the U.S. President told reporters: `I don’t think much about Vladimir Putin.’”
Thus, the headline on the Politico article: “Starmer and Biden Brush Off Putin’s Threat of War.”