Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin bring decades of experience with them to the Geneva summit. For Putin, this is certainly not his first rodeo, with Biden being the fifth US president he’s met since coming to power in Russia. Biden’s personal record of high-profile meetings is not too shabby either, and this won’t be his first time meeting Putin. As the US and Russia find themselves at another low point in their bilateral relationship, there may be some lessons to be learned from the past. The World’s Daniel Ofman reports.
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