How Biden put a stop to the Trumpian appeasement between the US and Russia

21 November 20203 years ago babelfish

What will the Biden administration's policy towards Russia be? Here's what the next US president said

What will the Biden administration's policy towards Russia be? This is one of the hitherto least analyzed aspects of the new American foreign policy. Yet it should be, especially here in Italy, because it will profoundly influence the future of NATO, the EU and the relations of European countries with Washington and Moscow, in short, our national interest.

In order to answer the question, instead of resorting to ruminations and second-hand sources, we leave the floor to Biden himself:

“As president, I will do more than simply restore our traditional partnerships; I will endeavor to re-imagine them for the world we face today. The Kremlin fears a strong NATO, the most effective political-military alliance in modern history. To counter Russian aggression, we need to keep the Alliance's military strength sharp, while expanding its ability to tackle non-traditional threats, such as corruption, disinformation and cyber theft. We must impose real costs on Russia for its violations of international norms and stand with Russian civil society which has courageously and repeatedly sided against President Vladimir Putin's authoritarian-kleptocratic system ”.

I leave the reader with his own considerations. Certainly the idyll, or at least the appeasement between Washington and Moscow, which characterized the Trump administration, can be said to be over.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/come-biden-ha-affossato-lappeasement-trumpiano-tra-usa-e-russia/ on Fri, 20 Nov 2020 17:25:13 +0000.