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There is little doubt that Joe Biden's surprise visit to Kyiv will add to the anti-Western rhetoric of Vladimir Putin's "nationwide address" to be delivered to the Russian parliament on Tuesday.
"For the Kremlin, this is further proof that the United States has definitely bet on the strategic defeat of Russia in this war, and that the war itself has irrevocably turned into a war between the Russia and the West”
, explains political scientist Tatiana Stanovaya, director of the journal
R.Politik
.
“Putin's message was expected to be very belligerent, aimed at a demonstrative break with the West.
It could now be modified to make it even harder,”
believes this specialist.
In Moscow in any case, we were trying to defuse the effect of surprise caused by Mr. Biden's trip to Ukraine.
Former President Dmitry Medvedev, currently number two in the Russian Security Council…
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