It goes without saying that Russian President Putin would GREATLY LOVE to have a sympathetic Donald Trump in office again….
A younger woman American President is NOT what Putin & Co. know or want to deal with right now….
“If Kamala Harris wins the election, it will be a huge disappointment for the Kremlin,” said Tatiana Stanovaya, the founder of R.Politik, a Russian political consultancy now based in France. “Not because they expect some concrete anti-Russian steps but because the nature of American politics will become, from their point of view, irrational and unpragmatic and self-destructive.”…
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For Russia, the tumult of Trump’s presidency, his admiration for authoritarian rulers like Vladimir Putin and his bashing of NATO and the European Union, was a gift. Trump’s wild boast that he could end the war in Ukraine in a day suggested he could force Kyiv to surrender territory.
And Biden, although he sent unprecedented military and financial aid to Ukraine, was appreciated by many Russian foreign policy hands as hailing from a Cold War era when Russia was feared as a superpower rival. They view Biden as a predictable actor who would not risk an escalation into direct hostilities with Russia and who understands and respects that Russia possesses a large nuclear arsenal. “Under Biden, there was at least an understanding of red lines,” Stanovaya said….
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Some former Russian officials said they feared Harris’s candidacy was a sign the U.S. liberal establishment is engineering the elections to block right-wing isolationist forces. Given the Kremlin’s grip on Russian elections, some Russians struggle to believe elections can be fair and genuinely unpredictable, or to grasp the concept of coalition-building in parliamentary political systems….