Joe Biden will not attend the virtual G20 summit in India with Vladimir Putin tomorrow. He will be replaced by US Treasury Secretary Yanet Yellen, a White House source confirmed to ANSA without making a statement. The official pretext appears to be the holiday that the president will spend between today and Sunday with his family in Nantucket, Massachusetts, also to celebrate his 81st birthday. “With Thanksgiving just around the corner, we are not sure whether the president will be able to attend the virtual summit,” Eric Garcetti, the U.S. ambassador to New Delhi, said on Monday, referring to the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday , for which America is responsible, stops. But since there are no logical problems (the commander-in-chief can connect from anywhere in safe conditions), it seems to some observers like a political decision, a slap in the face of the tsar for not legitimizing him for the first time on the international stage after that Invasion of Ukraine. However, the decision breaks the Western Front as all other heads of state and government will be present, including Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who will arrive from Germany as part of her mission to Germany. The Kremlin is aware of the occasion and knows that it is a victory, a revenge, a customs clearance. And he has already announced that Putin will outline Russia’s position on what he says is a “deeply unstable world situation.” He is probably talking about both the war in Ukraine and the war in the Middle East.
