Biden's statement about the Russian president is not accidental: the wires lead directly to Putin, who was apparently the leading and directed hand in the Russian stir in the US presidential election
The comprehensive intelligence report, published in full yesterday in Washington, is another central and tense tier in an increasingly escalating confrontational mask, which began to take shape immediately after Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States, and could restore relations between the two powers in the tunnel. The time is right for the era of the tectonic rift of the Cold War.
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Indeed, we have before us another triggering event, indicating that the rivalry between Washington and Moscow, which has seemingly faded into the abysses of oblivion and oblivion during President Trump's four years in the White House, has returned in full force from the frosts to the international stage. -Chinese, which was supposed to be a major axis of rift and controversy in the coming years.
At the heart of the intelligence report is the firm assertion that the Kremlin intervened directly, once again, in the recent US presidential election campaign.
This, when the focus of his efforts was the attempt to link the Democratic candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter to dark and corrupt economic deals in Ukraine, thus severely damaging his prestige and public status on the eve of the ballot decision.
It is true that Trump - who initially identified Biden as the most dangerous Democratic candidate for him - did his best, especially starting in 2018, to influence Ukrainian President Vladimir Zlansky to investigate these suspicions, and this was also the basis for the first impeachment move initiated against him by the House of Representatives.
This time, however, the threads lead directly to President Putin himself, who according to the report was the leading and directing hand, who intervened (mainly through the president's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and through associates with Russia in the Ukrainian arena) in the election campaign to weaken Biden's status. More.
Lith Mann denies that the incumbent's response to the report was outraged, and in fact was a marked deviation from its operational code, characterized by cautious and restrained wording, and light years away from the rhetorical style of his predecessor in the Oval Office. His actions will be paid for, but he did not hesitate to define him as a murderer, thus joining the presidential anger over Putin's initiative (having already intervened in the 2016 election campaign to undermine Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton) and sabotaging his race for the White House, Putin against critics of the regime, manifested most recently was attempted poisoning of Alexei Navalny and send to jail after returning to Russia, to raise the level of tension between Washington with Moscow to a level not remembered like since the collapse of the Soviet Empire.
so, although Hayden has so far avoided crossing the Rubicon and declare On horizontal and sweeping punitive measures against Russia, the current belligerent rhetoric and its possible actual derivatives echo the era of the most acute crises of the Cold War, including the Cuban Missile Crisis (October 1962), continued
Bar understood from my power, which erupted in the midst of the Yom Kippur War, and the crisis that erupted following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (December 1979).
However, Putin's initial response to Biden's remarks, which amounted to the return of Russia's ambassador to Washington, Anatoly Antonov, for consultations in Moscow (which is a common diplomatic expression of displeasure), seems to suggest that Moscow's face is not escalating.
Although at this stage it is difficult to predict in which direction the current conflict will develop, anchored - at least in part - in the current administration's sensitivity to the human rights issue in light of Putin's ongoing damage to Russia, its impact on Israeli maneuvering and action should not be ignored.
This is because the atmosphere of chill and chill between the White House and the Kremlin could make it difficult for Israel to maintain, at the same time, a warm, cooperative and friendly relationship with each of these rivals as it was allowed in the Trump era.
Against this background, the statement of Foreign Minister Ashkenazi, who during his visit to Moscow yesterday showered Putin with a handful of compliments, praise and praise, and among other things addressed the common interests between Israel and Russia, which form the basis of fruitful dialogue, and Moscow's contribution to regional stability.
For, precisely in the face of this storm, it should have been modest to maintain a low profile and constructive ambiguity at least until rage passes instead of entering right into the eye of the storm and getting caught in the lion's mouth.