{"id":537958,"date":"2021-05-23T19:16:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T23:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=537958"},"modified":"2021-05-23T19:50:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T23:50:14","slug":"antony-blinken-when-it-comes-to-relations-with-the-us-russia-decides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/antony-blinken-when-it-comes-to-relations-with-the-us-russia-decides\/","title":{"rendered":"Antony Blinken: When It Comes to Relations With the US, Russia Decides"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fantony-blinken-when-it-comes-to-relations-with-the-us-russia-decides%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=537958&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GetFile-149.aspx\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Having positive relations with the United States is entirely Russia&#8217;s choice, according to Secretary of State Antony Blinken said following a <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/national-security\/554320-blinken-set-to-meet-with-russias-lavrov-in-iceland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">meeting<\/a> last week with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A more stable, predictable relationship with them, I think, would be good for us, good for them, and I&#8217;d even argue good for the world,&#8221; Blinken said.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken, appearing on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/secretary-antony-j-blinken-on-cnns-fareed-zakaria-gps-with-fareed-zakaria\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN&#8217;s &#8220;Fareed Zakaria GPS,&#8221;<\/a> said he and Lavrov had an &#8220;instructive, very businesslike conversation over the course of nearly two hours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Blinken said he made it clear on behalf of President Joe Biden, the U.S. would like to work cooperatively with Putin&#8217;s government on matters such as the constant warfare in Afghanistan, saying it would be good for all concerned.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And there are clearly areas where it&#8217;s in our mutual interest to find ways to cooperate, whether it&#8217;s on Afghanistan, whether it&#8217;s on so-called strategic stability or arms control agreements, whether it&#8217;s on dealing with climate change,&#8221; Blinken said.<\/p>\n<p>He added, &#8220;It&#8217;s really important to be very clear about what you&#8217;re doing, why you&#8217;re doing it, and, ultimately, it is up to Russia to decide whether it wants to have that more predictable, stable relationship. We need to test the proposition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Several areas of concern have arisen in the past decade, including Russian military actions in Ukraine, allegations of widespread Russia interference in American elections, and Putin&#8217;s persecution of opposition figures such as Alexei Navalny.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken said the administration had no qualms about calling out Russia and defending American interests if Russia pursues &#8220;reckless and aggressive actions&#8221; that destabilize the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The president has been very resolute on this,&#8221; Blinken told Zakaria.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin are expected to take part in a summit at a yet-to-be-named, third-party country sometime this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions with between Russia and the U.S. currently remain high due to alleged election interference, the SolarWinds hack, along with the recent Russian military buildup at the Ukraine border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having positive relations with the United States is entirely Russia&#8217;s choice, according to Secretary of State Antony Blinken said following a meeting last week with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312768,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GetFile-149.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"Antony Blinken: When It Comes to Relations With the US, Russia Decides","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GetFile-149.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"Antony Blinken: When It Comes to Relations With the US, Russia Decides","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}