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Vladimir Putin was one of the few world leaders who congratulated Donald Trump when he won the election four years ago.
On November 9, 2016, at 12 noon after the defeat of Hillary Clinton, the Russian president sent a message congratulating Trump.
But two weeks after Joe Biden was declared the winner of the US election, President Putin remains silent.
After much speculation in recent days, President Putin has opened his mouth.
In an interview on Russian television on Sunday, he explained why he or his government were not yet ready to congratulate Joe Biden.
‘Relationships are never broken again’
According to reports by Russian and other international media, Vladimir Putin said there was no “secret conspiracy” behind the fact that he had not yet congratulated Joe Biden.
He said he would like to wait until the “internal political conflict” in the United States is resolved over the election results.
Russia’s state media Rhea Novoski quoted Putin as saying: “There is no conspiracy behind this (not congratulating) that we like so and so and we don’t like so and so.”
He said he should congratulate the winner after the legal battle over the election results is over.
But in a television interview on the question of congratulating Joe Biden, Putin made harsh comments about the current crisis in Russia’s relations with the United States.
He said that relations between the United States and Russia do not depend on whether or not to send congratulations quickly.
‘A broken relationship is not renewed. The relationship is already broken.
Putin did not hesitate to comment on the ongoing infighting over the US electoral process.
“There are many flaws in the electoral system in the United States, so the United States has no right to criticize the democratic electoral processes of other countries,” he said.
Putin’s problem with Biden
Many observers are skeptical of the message Putin wants to get across on Sunday that Russia has no qualms about who will or will not be president of the United States.
A BBC Moscow correspondent says that one of the main reasons for the delay in congratulating Joe Biden may be that Putin did not like the election results. The same is true of most Western analysts.
Philip Steven, chief political analyst at the Financial Times in London, wrote that there was no question that Trump’s departure from the White House was of concern to the Kremlin. “Trump was one of Putin’s biggest fans.”
It’s true that even after 2016, there hasn’t been much improvement in Moscow-Washington relations. Instead, the Trump administration has imposed new sanctions on Russia on several occasions. It has shown reluctance to renew the arms disarmament treaty.
But Trump has never personally made any direct negative comments about Putin. Instead, he praised Putin’s “strong personality” more than once.
‘Putin the villain’
Joe Biden, on the other hand, has repeatedly hinted that he doesn’t like Putin at all. Furthermore, opposition to Putin among Democrats has increased since Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 elections.
In an interview with a Washington-based magazine in March this year, he called Vladimir Putin a “bully.”
In that interview, Joe Biden said about the nuclear arms control treaty with Russia: “I helped make the new startup agreement. I didn’t do it because I liked Putin. The man is a villain.
“Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin have no end,” Biden told NBC on June 26.
It’s safe to say that a selfish or arrogant man like Putin doesn’t like these things at the same time.
Joe Biden was the vice president of the United States during the occupation of Crimea and the military intervention in Ukraine. He was at the forefront of imposing strict sanctions against Russia at the time.
In recent months, during his election campaign, Biden has repeatedly said that he is determined to ensure that Putin’s Russia is not “violated by international law.” He promised to help those who oppose Putin’s “dictatorial” rule in Russia.
Joe Biden firmly believes that weakening Western democracies, destroying their unity, is one of Vladimir Putin’s main goals.
In a speech at Chatham House, a London-based think tank, in October 2016, Biden made clear that “Putin’s true wish is to break the NATO-European Union alliance.” Rather than an allied Europe, Putin wants to have separate relations with European countries to make it easier to take care of them.
Philip Steven of the Financial Times says that the strategic relationship between Europe and the United States “will get oxygen” with Joe Biden’s victory. “The two sides of the Atlantic have once again spoken of cooperation. And Putin’s handling of Russia will be on the agenda of that cooperation.
However, Matthew Rozinski, director of the Canaan Institute at the Wilson Center, an American think tank, wrote in an article on CNN that it would not be easy for Joe Biden to hold Vladimir Putin’s hand. Biden has to deal with a lot of real problems.
“Russia has a military presence in Ukraine, Georgia, Syria, Libya and now Azerbaijan. Furthermore, as Sino-American animosity grows, so will Russia’s closeness to China, putting Joe Biden’s strategic decision in great jeopardy.
“Although Moscow and Beijing do not have a great friendship, the two countries have the same strategic objective, which is to undermine American dominance in the world,” he said.
Source: BBC
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