It will not be easy for Putin and Biden to work together. I remember how in 2011 Biden, when visiting the then Prime Minister Putin in the role of vice president, urged him not to run for president. The United States and the West were then betting on Medvedev.
Former President Bush once said about Putin in 2001: I looked into his eyes and saw his soul. It was a compliment. Biden, ten years later, told Putin in the Kremlin: I looked into your eyes, but I did not see the soul there. Biden himself later notified about this. It was, excuse me, on the verge of rudeness.
During the election campaign, Biden said that Russia is still the West’s main enemy. He called Trump “Putin’s dog”. Biden is unlikely to change his rhetoric towards Russia. Maintaining human rights in the world is on the agenda of the new American president.
Europe is striving again into the arms of America. The West will again build a common ideological front on the basis of “universal liberal values” against Russia, but also against China. And in Germany next year, a new transatlantic chancellor will come to power along with the Greens.
The times are interesting but disturbing.
Alexander Rahr