President Joe Biden’s virtual meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin came amid heightened tensions and a military buildup on the Russia-Ukraine border. But as The World’s Daniel Ofman tells host Marco Werman, US-Russia relations were already tense, following years of tit-for-tat sanctions and diplomatic expulsions.
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