In Moscow
Starting from this low, Russia is expecting, at best, only limited improvement with Joe Biden's United States.
The bilateral link is so degraded that it evokes the icy climate of the early 1980s. In addition, the anti-Russian predispositions of the new Democratic team appear blatant in the eyes of the Kremlin -
"Russia is the main threat to the United States"
, candidate Biden said on CBS on October 26.
"We will dissuade Vladimir Poutine and we will impose a cost on him for his interference and his aggressions"
, reproached Antony Blinken, the designated secretary of state, on September 11 in the
New York Times
.
It is unlikely, therefore, with such a president and his foreign minister - who was at the forefront of imposing sanctions in 2014 - that there will be a
reset
(a restart) like the one Barack Obama once attempted with Moscow.
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