Biden and Russia – Release the plague, contracted cholera

I was in the middle Plague or wrath for the other nuclear superpower Russia, when the United States elected a new president just over three weeks ago. Donald Trump and Joe Biden were equally bad candidates for Russia at this crossroads. If Trump for the occasion plays the role of the plague in this relationship, who admires President Putin and wanted to lift the sanctions, then he did not help Russia at all. Congress did not trust Trump for a moment, seized control of US policy in Russia, and tied the president hand and foot. As for Biden, he has no illusions about Putin’s mindset or ambitions. He is very skeptical of both.

Let’s go four years go back in time in an attempt to understand the dynamics of US-Russian relations in recent years. When Donald Trump, to everyone’s surprise, won the 2016 election, champagne gushed out in Russia’s National Assembly. Russia had won an American election and had chosen her husband. It turned out that they too, in their own way, had participated in the elections, with misinformation and influence, as letter researcher Robert Mueller stated in his report.

Anyway it was Trump’s victory celebrated in Moscow. But expectations that sanctions would be lifted and that all human rights and democracy issues would be swept under the rug were shamed. And at the physical meetings between Trump and Putin, the American media complained that a poorly prepared Trump was run over by a much more experienced, knowledgeable and cunning Putin. Even the Republicans helped unite the president with Russia. Precisely, the relationship with Russia is perhaps the most important political area where Trump’s revolution never succeeded. Although it never stood firm in the will.

Joe Biden has that one of the Senate’s top foreign politicians for more than one life, a conscious relationship with Russia since Leonid Brezhnev ruled the Kremlin. He is well aware of the long lines of Russian and Soviet foreign policy, where control and dominance over the surrounding areas was the doctrine of both the tsars and the general secretaries. The exception was the last secretary general, Mikhail Gorbachev. According to Putin, the dissolution of the Soviet Union was known to be the worst geopolitical catastrophe of the last century, a century that could also include Hitler, Stalin and Mao.

It’s joe biden was vice president from 2008 to 2016, his objective and that of Barack Obama was to “reestablish” relations with Russia. They wanted to create a dialogue to maintain trust when it came to weapons issues in particular, but also to maintain a dialogue on democracy and human rights. But Obama eventually gave up on Putin, describing him as the mob in the back of the classroom that always made him sick, and in his recent autobiography, Obama describes the Russian president as a simple mob boss.

Biden continued, And after a meeting with Putin in the Kremlin in 2011, Biden is said to have told Putin that after looking into his eyes, he couldn’t see any souls. To that, Putin is said to have responded that the two understood each other. Here we observe positions free of illusion in both. And while Biden has described China as America’s greatest challenge, he has said that Russia is America’s greatest threat.

Biden, who was himself an important actor during the Cold War, he acknowledges much of that time. Putin’s willingness to undermine democracies and lay the foundations for NATO and the EU is the same as that of the Communist general secretaries. But its ability to do so is significantly lower than 40 years ago, the country is weak, especially economically and demographically. Russia today is also not governed by any Communist Party, but by a kleptocratic security apparatus that has taken control of the state with a patriotic, militaristic and anti-American ideology. That’s Biden’s analysis.

Now gonna stop laughing

One of the most important of Biden The tasks of the world will be to establish alliances of democracies, to confront non-democracies or pseudo-democracies, like Russia. While Trump doesn’t care about human rights abuses, Biden does. On the positive side, seen from the Kremlin, Biden also cares about disarmament and understands, unlike Trump, the nature of nuclear weapons. So the START deal will survive, and perhaps the discarded trust agreements, discarded by Trump, will take new forms.

The Kremlin avoided this time to get the plague. But they contracted cholera, in the form of Biden. So it must be at the expense of the Kremlin itself that they, at least a little, would have preferred the plague.