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Biden made it clear to Putin that the White House no longer has a president who admires him
When Trump was asked when he took office whether the Russian president was a murderer, he was summoned to his defense, while his successor was determined to state what he thought of him.
But Biden's test will be the next time Russia uses force, and it has already shown that sanctions alone will not stop it.
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Guy Elster
Saturday, March 20, 2021, 08:15
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In the video: Putin answers Biden after calling him a killer - "Wishing him health" (Photo: Reuters)
Relations between Russia and the United States have not risen from the slump to which they fell after the annexation of the Crimean peninsula in 2014, not even during the Trump era, and the seventh anniversary of the occupation of Ukrainian territory was an unparalleled event to show mutual hostility between the two powers.
Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin are longtime acquaintances.
Biden was vice president of the United States for eight years, at which time the old enemies tried to open a new page.
Therefore, when Biden calls Putin a murderer and a soulless person it does not mean that he is careless.
The Democratic president may be known for his word of mouth, but he seems to have wanted to send a message to Moscow: There is no longer a person in the White House who admires your president.
"There are a lot of assassins. Do you think our country is so innocent?" Trump said in 2017, shortly after taking office, after the interviewer called Putin a murderer.
Putin, who according to US intelligence has once again approved an operation to intervene in the presidential election in favor of Trump, did not remain indebted to Biden.
With a clear sting, echoing the ridicule and conspiracy theories promoted by the Russian media against Biden, he wished him "health."
When Putin stressed that he was "not cynical," he was as sarcastic as only he could be.
When he offered to hold talks with Biden on the condition that they be broadcast live, he tried to embarrass him.
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Putin at a concert in Moscow to mark the annexation of Crimea, yesterday (Photo: Reuters)
Despite the war of words and the return of the Russian ambassador from Washington to Moscow for consultations, there was no breaking of tools in relations.
The two presidents have let off steam, making it clear that the United States and Russia will continue to cooperate when it benefits them.
This was the case in the first days of Biden's tenure, when the New START nuclear treaty was extended for another five years, days before it expired.
The two powers also have a common interest in reviving the dying nuclear deal, although the phase of explorations between the Biden government and Iran is expected to continue at least until the June presidential election.
The United States is content with sanctions, but they are not enough on their own. Biden in the White House, yesterday (Photo: Reuters)
Next week, the United States will impose additional sanctions on Russia in response to interfering in the presidential election and infiltrating Russian hackers into federal government offices and private companies.
These cyber-security failures occurred at the end of Trump's tenure, when the Republican president was solely engaged in his election campaign and ignored and distorted the warnings of intelligence personnel.
The incentives given by the Russians to the Taliban to kill American troops in Afghanistan, another issue silenced by Trump, are also expected to be met with sanctions, the most effective diplomatic punishment tool the United States has to offer.
When Putin moves from words to deeds
But sanctions have their own borders, and countries like Russia, Iran, China, Turkey and North Korea have learned how to adapt to them and bypass them in many cases.
They did not dissuade those regimes from their overarching goals, survival, which includes reaching out to adversaries in distress or spreading to territories that they perceive as critical to their existence.
In contrast, Western countries, and the United States in particular, have grown tired and lost interest in deploying sponsorship of pro-democracy forces trampled on by dictatorial regimes.
Their citizens do not understand why they should be sent to fight far overseas for abstract visions, which do not always have buyers in those countries.
In recent times, in Iraq and Libya, it has ended in fiasco and bloodbaths.
It is not for nothing that Obama was left alone in 2013 when he considered attacking Syria after a deadly chemical attack by the Assad regime, until he was forced to settle for an agreement with Putin that was not worth the papers it was written about.
Biden's test will be the next time Putin moves from words to deeds.
It could be in the next few days, in a few weeks or months or in a year, but it will happen.
Whether by intervening in Belarus, eastern Ukraine, another country in the post-Soviet space or another geographical area, or the elimination of an opponent of the animal regime in Europe, Putin's violence mechanism is always in action.
Sanctions and condemnation alone will not suffice, and it is doubtful that Biden will deviate from the distant policy of the Obama and Trump administrations in light of his focus on dealing with the Corona plague and the plethora of internal problems in the United States.
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