Joe Biden is killing it overseas right now — and that’s in a show-biz, Urban Dictionary, ‘performing at the highest level‘ type phrase, and not the Mafia-T-Rump locution — in a so-far, way-successful mission to build-back-better America’s standing on the world stage.

After palling with chancellors, prime ministers and presidents involved with the three-day G7 summit in the UK — and the tone for the meeting way-more-better than recent get-togethers: ‘“It is great to have a U.S. president who’s part of the club and very willing to cooperate,’’ President Emmanuel Macron of France said after meeting Mr. Biden ‘ — subsequently for Biden will be the NATO meeting in Brussels, Belgium, which will last until Tuesday.

However, before leaving England today he and First Lady Jill Biden met with Queen Elizabeth:

President Biden and the first lady are meeting with Britain's Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle. He's the 12th sitting president to meet the Queen during her reign.https://t.co/2qDmBtabxl pic.twitter.com/NWhW0elRNB

— CNN (@CNN) June 13, 2021

And Joe be cool: ‘Arriving to the interior quad of Windsor Castle in a dark Range Rover alongside his wife, Biden emerged wearing a signature pair of aviator sunglasses as he stood to chat briefly with the 95-year-old monarch.‘

This the second meeting with the queen on the trip — she attended a dinner with the G7 crowd Friday, and picked up on the timbre of the moment: ‘After posing for a photo, she took a light jab at the staged camaraderie. “Are you supposed to be looking as if you’re enjoying yourself?” she said.‘
Remember, she also met with the T-Rump, and she’s not been queen for a day.

Enjoyment most-likely will be long gone when Biden meets face-to-face with Vladimir Putin Wednesday in Geneva, and the talks will supposedly cover a multitude of controversial subjects like spying, hacking, election meddling, Ukraine, Belarus and human rights.
In a news conference today, Biden admitted the meeting with Putin could be tenuous: ‘“Let me make it clear. I think he is right it is a low point,” Biden said about Putin’s recent assessment of the Moscow-Washington relationship. “And it depends on how he responds to acting consistent with international norms. Which in many cases he has not.”‘

And Time magazine, in a preview of Biden’s meet-up with Putin, unveiled a cover shown below — Fox News went unhinged, and lost their never-even-had shit over it (go check it out if you’re needing, horribly ironic):

(Illustration: Painting by Tim O’Brien, and found here).

And the cover-story at Time from Friday:

Now Biden is preparing to get tough when he sits down in Geneva with Putin for the first time as President. Among the moves he and his team have weighed to show he means business: reminding Putin that the U.S. has its own cyberabilities and can target Putin’s personal overseas fortunes.
Biden hopes to amplify both threats by speaking for U.S. allies as well, and to back Putin down from these provocations.
“The whole goal is to have [Putin] come away saying, ‘The Americans are onto us and have us encircled,’” the official says.

It won’t be easy. Putin has played a weak hand well. Russia’s commodity-based economy has been stagnating, and that in turn has fed seething discontent.
That may be incentive for raising Russia’s profile abroad, exploiting U.S. missteps in the Middle East and the chaos that Donald Trump created in the U.S. and abroad.
Putin has wielded Russia’s expertise in cyberwarfare and disinformation to launch asymmetric attacks against his opponents in Europe and the U.S.

Biden’s mission in Geneva is not about a personal test of wills. It’s about halting this risky escalation and getting the U.S. and Russia back on stable footing, Administration officials say.
No two countries have more nuclear missiles ready to launch than Russia and the U.S. Under Trump, key treaties between the nations and lines of communication fell into disuse.
“What’s glaringly missing and dangerous, and what was decimated under Trump, was work on strategic stability,” says a senior State Department official.
“We’ve lost all these treaties that were designed to keep this stuff locked down.”
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Although Biden is planning to talk tough in Geneva, the goal is to ease tensions and establish predictability on both sides by reining in Putin’s adventurism. Much of Biden’s preparation, three senior Administration officials say, has taken place during his daily intelligence briefing.
The leading figure there has been CIA Director William Burns, a former U.S. ambassador to Moscow who worked for Secretary of State James Baker during the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Burns and others advocate a return to the Cold War containment of Moscow’s moves. “Everywhere [Putin] goes he must meet resistance,” the senior Administration official says.

Biden is qualified to lead the approach. He’s spent decades in debates on U.S.-Russian relations as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and as VP.
Asked how much time the President has spent preparing for the trip, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said, “He’s been getting ready for 50 years.”

Remember, Putin is a T-Rump-like asshole, but in a way-way-smarter ‘Terminator’ mode: ‘Asked about Biden calling him a killer in an interview in March, Putin said he had heard dozens of such accusations. “This is not something I worry about in the least,” Putin said, dismissing it as part of “macho behaviour” common in Hollywood.‘

(Post title from, “Joey: The Story of Joe Biden,” by Dr. Jill Biden).

(Illustration: ‘Joe Biden,’ acrylic by Billy Jackson, and found here).