Wingman66
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Great idea ding dong donnie. Let's start a war with russia with china as it's ally. Everybody who wants a full out nuclear war raise your hand.
During a 2011 visit to Moscow, Biden reportedly angered the Kremlin after he told Russian opposition leaders that the United States did not want to see Putin run for a third presidential term. Following Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, Biden became the Obama administration’s point man on Ukraine and spearheaded U.S. efforts to rally its European allies to impose sanctions against the Kremlin.
Yet many in Moscow are increasingly looking less at the specific positions of both candidates, and more at the growing political polarization in the United States. From Russiagate to impeachment, the past several years of political battles in Washington has left a strong impression on Russia’s political elite, convincing that Washington’s partisan divisions are approaching a boiling point.
The past eight months have only strengthened that perception. During an interview in June, Putin argued that the George Floyd protests were a sign of “deep internal crises” in the United States and suggested that Washington’s response to the coronavirus pandemic had been undermined by partisan divisions.
“Few in Russia understand what is going on right now in the United States, yet looking at the situation from the outside, one gets an impression of total madness,” said Fyodor Lukyanov, chairman of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, a research group that advises the Russian government.
Lukyanov spoke that recent events have convinced Russia’s leadership that attempting to improve relations with the United States over the next four years is “not only pointless but even potentially dangerous.” Moscow is concerned that any diplomatic efforts between the two countries would quickly become dragged into U.S. domestic political battles, he explained.
“As a result, you often hear [in Moscow] that we should minimize relations with the United States as much as possible until things calm down over there,” Lukyanov said. “But that is unlikely to happen before 2024 at a minimum since if Biden takes office, he will govern a country as divided as the one Trump did, only the sides will be switched.”
How does Russia plan on dealing with a potentially unpredictable United States over the next four years? One option is to continue strengthening relations with China. Since 2014, when Moscow found itself estranged from the West over the Ukraine crisis, Russia and China have boosted their bilateral trade to $110 billion in 2019 while also cutting their reliance on the dollar. The two countries now regularly hold joint military exercises, including in geopolitical hotspots such as the Baltic and South China Seas. Russia has also sought to lessen its technological dependence on the United States by turning to Chinese tech giants like Huawei Technologies.
Suslov told me that Moscow and Beijing are likely to draw closer over the next four years. He argued that the two countries are well-positioned to push back against Washington.
He predicted that deepening polarization would “weaken the ability of the United States to conduct an effective foreign policy making it more impulsive, more mercantilist, and less capable of consolidating allies to confront Russia and China.”
“Russia is going off the assumption that while the United States’ policy of confrontation is painful but not deadly,” Suslov added. “And that in the long run, it will be the United States that will have to adjust its policies, adapt to a multipolar world, and accept both Russia and China as legitimate great powers.”
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I have to say yall got a good little support group going. Huddle together so yall can keep warm...trackdriver
"Kim Jong-Un speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.” An actual sitting US President said that. Let that sink in.
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