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Hermitage Capital CEO Bill Browder suggests that the Biden-Putin summit gives Putin the same power and influence as the leaders of the free world.
Hermitage Capital CEO Bill Browder, a London-based investor and vocal critic of Russia, used his experience with Vladimir Putin to claim that the summit with President Biden should never have taken place. Browder said the meeting gives the Russian president the same platform and influence as free world leaders during “Mornings with Maria” on Wednesday.
BILL BROWDER: We are in a situation where Vladimir Putin has become a global threat. It has seized neighboring countries. He shot down a plane. He was cheated at the Olympics. He hacked into our computers. He took American hostages. He put bonuses on American soldiers in Afghanistan.
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We are in a situation where this man is a global criminal. And I can only imagine, I can only hope that President Biden will go there and tell him, unequivocally, that there will be consequences if he continues.
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I was the biggest foreign investor in Russia. I was an anti-corruption activist exposing corruption, as you can imagine, I was exposing Vladimir Putin. I was kicked out of the country. My offices were searched and my documents were taken. My businesses have been stolen. And a young lawyer named Sergei Magnitsky investigated the whole story …
He was then arrested, tortured for 358 days and killed on November 16, 2009. And since then, I have made it my mission to hold the people who killed him to account.
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Putin has already got what he wants from this meeting, which is to have this meeting. So, you know, we just went through this list of terrible things done, and there shouldn’t be a top.
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I mean, giving him a summit puts him in the same place as the most powerful person in the free world, the US President. And that elevates him to a level of authority and respectability among his own followers, which is a gift to him that he shouldn’t be receiving.
But now that we have this summit, I guess the main purpose of this summit, given that it’s happening, is not to elevate it any further. And that should be to show him and tell him, bluntly, that there are red lines everywhere and if he crosses them, there will be serious and painful consequences.
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Hermitage CEO Bill Browder says Biden needs to take a tough stance in negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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