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Russian President Vladimir Putin said he’s “ready” to meet with President-elect Donald J. Trump when he takes office, a sign that traditional diplomacy could be set for a comeback.

With the bloody proxy war in Ukraine set to enter its third year in February and the Biden regime desperately working to escalate it before Trump takes over, Putin seems to be looking for an off-ramp and new U.S. leadership could be a chance to end the carnage which has cost American taxpayers tens of billions of dollars.

During a year-end news conference in Moscow, the Russian leader said that he hasn’t spoken with the soon-to-be 47th president in years and that while there are currently no plans for a meeting, he’s prepared to make “compromises” if the two agree to get together.

According to CNN, Putin’s expressed willingness to talk with Trump came in response to a question from NBC’s Keir Simmons.

“You asked what we can offer, or what I can offer to the newly elected President Trump when we meet,” Putin said.

“First of all, I don’t know when we will meet. Because he hasn’t said anything about it. I haven’t spoken to him at all in over four years. Of course, I am ready for this at any time, and I will be ready for a meeting if he wants it,” he added.

Trump recently expressed interest in meeting with Putin to bring an end to the Ukraine war.

“President Putin said that he wants to meet with me as soon as possible,” he said while speaking at Turning Point’s AmericaFest convention. “So we have to wait for this, but we have to end that war. That war is horrible, horrible.”

When asked if his country would be in a weaker negotiating position as a result of setbacks in Syria and on the battlefield in the Ukraine war, Putin rejected the idea.

“You said that this conversation will take place in a situation when I am in some weakened state… And you, and those people who pay your salaries in the US, would very much like Russia to be in a weakened position,” he told the reporter.

“I adhere to a different point of view. I believe that Russia has become much stronger over the past two or three years. Why? Because we are becoming a truly sovereign country, we are already hardly dependent on anyone,” Putin said, according to CNN.

Putin’s remarks also skewered the reporting of establishment scribe Bob Woodward who in his latest book, claimed that Trump had spoken with him several times since leaving the White House, an obvious attempt to reignite the Russigate hoax in the month before the election.

Last month Putin accused Biden of “escalating the conflict” after the octogenarian lame-duck greenlighted the use of U.S.-provided long-range missiles to strike targets deep inside of Russia.

“President Trump, a smart and experienced person, will come up with a solution, especially given that he has gone through quite an ordeal of fighting to reclaim the Oval Office,” he said.

Nixon went to China and Reagan met with Gorbachev back in an era when U.S. leaders actually engaged with adversaries, a concept called diplomacy.

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