{"id":564527,"date":"2021-06-15T13:36:22","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T17:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=564527"},"modified":"2021-06-15T13:36:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T17:36:24","slug":"he-has-been-pathetically-weak-tom-cotton-says-its-ill-advised-for-biden-to-meet-with-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/he-has-been-pathetically-weak-tom-cotton-says-its-ill-advised-for-biden-to-meet-with-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He Has Been Pathetically Weak\u2019: Tom Cotton Says It\u2019s Ill-Advised For Biden to Meet With Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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%2Fhe-has-been-pathetically-weak-tom-cotton-says-its-ill-advised-for-biden-to-meet-with-putin%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=564527&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\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-15-at-12.29.09-PM-e1623776438891.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Republican Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton said Tuesday that it was ill-advised for President Joe Biden to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Cotton told Fox News\u2019 Gillian Turner that he believed Biden should be focused on China, which he argued posed a greater risk to Americans in the short term \u2014 and that weak actions toward Russia in addition to agreeing to a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/15\/the-talk-renew-season-12-low-ratings-sharon-osbourne-exit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">meeting<\/a> gave Putin the upper hand.<strong> <a class=\"text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/14\/every-cop-in-america-should-be-terrified-tom-cotton-accuses-kristen-clarke-of-jumping-to-conclusions-on-jacob-blake\/\">(RELATED: \u2018Every Cop In America Should Be Terrified\u2019: Tom Cotton Accuses Kristen Clarke Of \u2018Jumping To Conclusions\u2019 On Jacob Blake)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Turner brought Cotton into the discussion to respond to President Biden\u2019s promise to hold Putin accountable but to cooperate with Russia when there were areas of agreement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat are they? Are there any left at this point?\u201d Turner asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m afraid there aren\u2019t. I\u2019m less concerned on how Joe Biden stumbles and bumbles through describing Vladimir Putin rather than how he behaves toward Vladimir Putin. For the last four months, he has been pathetically weak,\u201d Cotton replied.<\/p>\n<p>Cotton went on to list a series of actions that he said showed the Biden administration\u2019s deference to Russia \u2014 namely the extension of an arms treaty he said greatly favored Russia, and Biden\u2019s decision to waive <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/18\/joe-biden-nord-stream-2-russia-vladimir-putin-antony-blinken\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sanctions<\/a> on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, Joe Biden has even said that he isn\u2019t imposing all of the sanctions that he could. He\u2019s definitely not taking taking the aggressive offensive actions that he could to impose a cost on Vladimir Putin for his actions. Joe Biden can say whatever he wants at the summit tomorrow but until he acts with strength and with vigor, Vladimir Putin is going to know that he still has the upper hand,\u201d Cotton added.<\/p>\n<p>Turner went on to ask what Cotton would advise a president to do in that situation, knowing, \u201cThere\u2019s war in cyberspace, there\u2019s the nuclear program, there is their treatment of dissidents and human rights including Alexei Navalny. How would you prioritize these different threats?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would not be going into the summit tomorrow. I think was ill-advised for the president to make one of his major bilateral summits overseas with Vladimir Putin especially after the string of weak actions towards Russia,\u201d Cotton continued, arguing that Biden should have spent more time addressing the immediate threats posed by China and encouraging the United States\u2019 European allies to stand up against China as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussia remains a threat but China is the threat that the United States and really the free world faces in of the days ahead,\u201d Cotton said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou said that there is this very real potential threat that no one seems to be talking about which is what if the Russian and Chinese governments tag team \u2026 Can you tease that line of thinking out for us a little bit?\u201d Turner pressed.<\/p>\n<p>Cotton said that the fact that U.S. foreign policy had always been built around ensuring that the Cold War-era fear of a united Communist China and Communist Russia would take on the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHenry Kissinger and Richard Nixon went to China and helped turn China against the Soviet Union. But that was then and this is now. China is the main threat now and we need to ensure that we are taking steps to prevent that kind of cooperation,\u201d Cotton concluded, saying it was vital to ensure \u201cthey don\u2019t have the ability to cooperate and combined their vast terrain, people, and resources in a way that would undermine American jobs, American prosperity, and ultimately American freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Arkansas Sen. 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