Waiting until he gets the green light, 68-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin sees no rush to congratulate 77-year-old former Vice President now president-elect Joe Biden for winning the Nov. 3 election. While Putin waits patiently to see if 74-year-old President Donald Trump concedes, he’s in no rush to congratulate Biden, knowing Biden’s history, along with his late buddy Sen. John McCain (R-Az.) of tough talk against the Kremlin. Putin remembers well Dec. 31, 2016 when former President Barack Obama and Biden ousted 35 Russian diplomats, with former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that Russian stole the election from her. Biden’s continued his anti-Kremlin rhetoric insisting that Moscow was up to no good in 2020. Without any proof, Biden finds Russia his favorites scapegoat.
Putin and Trump developed good rapport, compared to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis atmosphere created by Obama and Biden. But by far the most incendiary rhetoric, 17 U.S. intel agencies said in 2017 that Russia interfered in the 2016 election, fingering Trump in a FBI counterintelligence operation, insisting Trump conspired with the Russians to win the 2016 presidential election. Putin took notice of the outrageous claims made by U.S. intel officials, all of whom like to blame Moscow for their own failngs. Putin was listening carefully to Biden at the Oct. 22 Presidential Debate blame recent allegations of corruption against he and his 50-eyar-old son Hunter on “Russian disinformation.” Putin’s had it with corrupt U.S. politicians blaming Moscow, trying to cover-up their own corruption and malfeasance
Putin sees Biden as continuing the anti-Russian rhetoric, not seeing the same opportunity to improve relations with the U.S. Trump tried his best to improve U.S-Russian relations but was sabotaged at every turn by Democrats accusing him of Russian collusion. Hillary’s bogus “Steele Dossier” was used by former FBI Director James Comey, before he was fired by Trump May 9. When Comey was fired, corruption in the Democrat-led Congress pressured former Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein to appoint 75-year-old former FBI Director Robert Mueller as Special Counsel to investigate Russian meddling and alleged Trump collusion. After wasting 22-months and spending $40 million, Mueller’s mob of angry Democrat prosecutors found nothing. So Putin knows the Cold War hawks in the U.S. Congress that like to blame the Kremlin for everything.
Russia will of course congratulate Biden once Trump concedes or when the world passes Trump by with his futile lawsuits. But, for the time being, Putin’s in no rush to congratulate Biden for his big win. “We believe it would be proper to wait for an official announcement,” said Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov. “In any case, we hope that it will be possible to establish a dialogue with the next president of the United States and to agree on paths toward normalizing our bilateral relationship,” said Peskov, letting hope spring eternal. But based on how it went with Obama, Putin isn’t holding his breath that he’s going to get Biden to change his anti-Russian stripes at this point. Biden’s campaign accused Trump of an inappropriate relationship with Putin, accusing Trump of sick preferences for dictators.
Putin’s well-aware of the fake accusations of Russian meddling in the U.S. election, especially knowing that Biden won the election. Suddenly, talk of Russian meddling has disappeared because Democrats don’t need a scapegoat like Hillary, after she lost to Trump in 2016. Watching from afar the U.S. government charge Trump with a conspiracy with the Kremlin has to show Moscow how utterly sick American politics has become in the United States. Listening to Biden blame Russian disinformation for his egregious corruption blacked out by U.S. media told Moscow everything they need to know about the so-called Free Press in the United States. About the only thing free about the U.S. press today is that writers don’t wind up in a ditch for writng critical pieces about their government. That about all that’s left.
Putin watched during Trump’s four years in office of his own government spying on his 2016 campaign and presidency. Now he’s asked to keep and open mind about a U.S. government that likes to blame Russia for acts of egregious corruption in the U.S. Watching Biden in particular call charges of corruption against hin and his son “Russian disinformation” tells the whole story of how U.S. politicians exploit Russia to deny their own wrongdoing. Putin sees Biden in the same mold as Obama and Hillary, looking to undermine Putin’s rule. Putin recalls when Hillary, as Secretary of State, tried to undermine his election, promoting the opposition and street demonstrations in Moscow. Putin saw a real opportunity with Trump to improve U.S.-Russian Relations. He watched the U.S. Congress undermine his good will.
