'We understand one another': Biden told the New Yorker that when he met with Putin in 2011 he looked him square in the eye and said he didn't think he had a soul
* Analysts expect that a victory for Biden would increase tensions between Washington and Moscow, and would raise the probability of new sanctions on Russia.
* The country is already operating under international sanctions on some key sectors and Russian officials close to Putin.
* However, arms control is an area that both Russia-watchers believe could be a point of mutual interest and some harmony.
Despite some tough sanctions and even tougher criticism, Russia has not topped America’s foreign policy priorities under President Donald Trump, who has appeared to have a congenial relationship with his counterpart Vladimir Putin.
However, that could all change if Democrat nominee Joe Biden wins the November 3 election, according to experts, who are weighing up the implications of a Biden presidency on U.S.-Russia relations.
At the very least, analysts expect that a victory for Biden would increase tensions between Washington and Moscow, and would raise the probability of new sanctions on Russia.
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WNU Editor: My read of the Kremlin is that they expect a Biden victory in two weeks. Will such a victory impact US - Russian relations. On the issue of nuclear arms control both sides are on the same page to extend the START treaty. On Ukraine .... both sides want a resolution to the conflict, but Russia will never return Crimea to Ukraine as Biden has demanded. Beyond that .... I do not see a Biden administration being focused on Russia. Their focus will be on the pandemic, and the economic crisis that it has spawn.
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" On Ukraine .... both sides want a resolution to the conflict, but Russia will never return Crimea to Ukraine as Biden has demanded."
What does that mean?
It means nothing.
It is election year pandering.
Once Biden is gone and he will be gone, the new guy will drop it. Anyone questioning it, will get the refrains such as "new guy, new policies." "That was yesterday." Anyone belaboring the point will be ejected fro the administration, press opportunities and Washington Social circles.
A Joe Biden win does not mean a Joe Biden administration. It means his family gets to keep the proceeds form the bank robbery. They get to stay out of jail. They get the gold star on their tombstone. They get the nice eulogy and send off.
"do not see a Biden administration being focused on Russia."
Well duh! Say what you will about the legitimacy of the Russian government vis-à-vis Democratic standards, but at the end of the day it is a strong government.
As in you cannot loot it.
As we have seen US foreign aid is looted by US officials. Reducing American involvement in wars and later American foreign aid limits economic opportunities for many people in Washington DC.
1) Russia took Crimea. They had a good claim to it, but the method is wrong. It might have taken longer but a plebiscite?
2) Russia backs and instigated the insurgency.
3) Russia poisoned an Ukrainian PM.
4) America has bigger problems. Catch 22 came to American foreign aid. I am so sick of this Masha bitch on top of the Bidens and Soros.
"Their focus will be on the pandemic, and the economic crisis that it has spawn."
Droughts are natural; famines are man made.
Political leaders spawned the economic crisis for political purposes not COVID.
All I am seeing is very old people with co-morbid conditions dying. A few people under 65 die now and then.
For instance, there was a 40 something woman who died. She lived in a LTC facility. She had co morbid conditions. Probably one of them was being obese. Do you think she got any exercise? Doubtful. It can be risky walking locally. You have to pick your time of day. But you can walk. The LTC is 1` mile from where a bank robber was shot (Less as the crow flies) (It made national news with all the attendant outrage). There have been other shooting in the area immediately to the south. I doubt she walked or was allowed to walk. The other legit and non-legit reasons being she might fall, have a spell or something. They gave the name of the facility. I googled it. It was eye opening. There are 5 or 6 campuses. That is a lot of people and they are concentrated.
Point is if you look at the age structure of corona deaths, it does not support an economic shutdown.
The pandemic is a plandemic. Many national leaders of many nations did not plan the epidemic, but they plan on profiting from it.
When less than 5% of people over 65, who get infected die due to mostly poor medical care and when the death rate is infinitesimal for those under 65, it is not an epidemic.
Most people are incapable of calculating the number of decimal places the death rate of those under 65. And they are afraid?
Famines are man made? You need a serious conversation with Mother Nature.
And as for a Russian government so strong you cannot loot it. I don't understand this comment. It's not the government, it's some of the members of that government who draw the citizens scorn. Just like our current expose of the biden family and before that the clintons. Among others.
Experts: African Hunger Crisis Largely Man-made VOA News
Anthropologists came up withe concept of the gift economy to describe or suggest how ancient people in the past survived. I think it is an interesting idea and a very good concept.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_economy
"A natural disaster, such as a long period of drought, flooding, extreme cold, typhoons, insect infestations, or plant disease, combined with government decisions on how to respond to the disaster, can result in a famine. The famine might be initiated by a natural disaster, and a government's inability or unwillingness to deal with the consequences of that event may magnify the effects."
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/famine/
Many Chinese emperors were quite good at alleviating famine. They knew their job depended on it and they actually cared. Then there were times when there was court infighting, the famine continued unabated and you got rebellions. The famine was man made.
There was a famine in the early 1940's in China. It just was not due to Japanese aggression. Chiang Kai Sheck had a huge part. He broke the levies to slow the Japanese. People ended up starving to death in the millions.
Famines are caused by market failures, and government inability or unwillingness to respond. A drought may be natural, but a famine is man-made.
I disagree with David Algoso. But his essay makes the point that many people are seeing famine as man made. It is not a foreign concept. Not since at least Somalia in 191/1992.
David puts up a slick graph. Is the area under the two different curves the same? If they are, what did you gain? You do gain some thing. Some people gain a few more months of life. That is positive. But when you do an across the board cost benefits analysis and look at deaths form suicide and other negative consequences of a lockdown, his analysis falls flat. He also asserts things with no proof. I do not think Nancy Pelosi and other modeled positive leadership. Chic, color coordinated designer scarves are not proper masks. All the mask thing was is one side nagging the other side and giving their own side a complete pass.
Over time, famines have become increasingly “man-made”-phenomena, becoming ... We might naturally tend to associate famine with drought or other natural...
The Russian government has enough political control and unlike the first 2 or 3 years after 1991 has enough money that they do not need foreign aid. They are not open to manipulation like Ukraine was or is.
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