Most media reaction to the meeting between presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin in Geneva focused on the optics: analyses of handshakes, body language, smiles and pouts in an effort to determine who was projecting confidence or unease and who would come off better in the battle of perceptions. Based on these tells, media analysts and pundits were quick to issue assessments of who "won" or "lost" at Geneva, as to whether Biden projected strength, resolve and determination against a rattled and unsettled Putin, or whether Putin benefitted from being perceived as a coequal peer to Biden (with the nod to past superpower summits during the Cold War).
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