MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday congratulated Joe Biden on winning the U.S. presidential election after weeks of holding out.
Now that the party boss has done so, perhaps Republicans will now fall in line and congratulate President-Elect Biden as well.
The Cheeto Stands Alone.
I wonder about Putin’s concern for the sanctions Obama issued… I wonder if Biden has read the whole of the Mueller report… I wonder…
In his message, Putin wished Biden “every success,” according to a Kremlin statement Tuesday, and expressed confidence that “Russia and the U.S., which bear special responsibility for global security and stability can, despite the differences, really contribute to solving many problems and challenges that the world is currently facing.”
The Russian president noted that “the Russian-American cooperation based on the principles of equality and mutual respect would meet the interests of the people in both countries and the entire international community.”
Sanctions continue to bite, especially Russia’s financial sector. Oil & gas is also affected to some extent, but covid would have depressed commodity prices no matter what. One inadvertent effect beyond Russia’s entirely predictable fallback to “import substitution” has been improvements in agriculture.
There goes Fat Nixon’s chance for the Russian Supreme Court to grant him victory.
I was really hoping for four more years to really finish the job of smashing American democracy, but we did pretty good with the four we had. Good luck! See you in 2024.
He’s so over you, Donald. Grab a box of Kleenex and be on your way.
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Vladimir Putin on Tuesday congratulated Joe Biden on winning and also sent a message to trump later that afternoon to remind him that his upcoming payment is due Jan 1, 2021.
Minimum payment = $250,000.00
if paid before due date, get a .0002% discount.
Late payment or non- payment will immediately activate Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation to resolve the issue.
Putin to Biden, “Can’t we all just get along”.
Not necessarily. Trump realizes he still has, as the lawyers say, “nuisance value”. Trump has been the gift that has just kept on giving. Russia spent, by some estimates, only about $250 million on disrupting the 2016 election. And the possible “loans” to Trump, which could be several hundred millions, are also easy to forgive. The US spends over $100 million on just one F-35. As long as Trump adds to making the US ungovernable, exercising his power to have any misbehaving GOP legislator primaried, Putin can say he got more than his money’s worth. And if Trump were to turn anti-Kremlin, those loans can always be called. Finally, Trump has failed to get protection for the rest of his family members, and particularly Jared, who may have also learned the way to Donald’s Russian money river. Maybe Trump thinks it’s ok if Jared takes one Novichok for the team, but Putin also has more subtle ways of keeping Trump’s people in line. He can only get that blanket protection by remaining loyal.
On the bright side, Trump might get away from all these problems if Putin leaves office. Yeltsin only made to 69 when he resigned. Putin was also much happier in the mid-2000s when Russia enjoyed its oil & gas windfalls that made it possible for Russia to have a middle class with vacations in Greece and Portugal.
Et tu, Putey?
The Ruble Stops Here!!
Spending 100 million for an F35 or any conventional weapons system, for that matter, is another example of fighting the next war with the weapons of the last war.
We are in the midst of a cyberwar now…and losing. Yet another DOD and FBI failure.
But clearly a Raytheon success. Ex-Raytheon lobbyist Esper is being replaced by Raytheon board member Austin. Also ex-Raytheon exec Mike Garcia won CA-25.
Get Donny some smelling salts.
Come on Putin, spill the beans on what you have on Donnie.
You are largely right - we do the same thing with elections. We are always trying to win the last election.
It is nice to think that we have smarter people with no indebtedness to Russia taking over soon, but the fact is that our current system is not a future looking system. We are incapable of making the quick decisions and adopting long acting policies with our methods of governance. By making the Senate totally unresponsive to anything new or progressive and allowing an imperial presidency to undo anything their side did not like over the last 4 or 8 years, we are bogged down in antiquated ideas, antiquated laws, and antiquated law makers who honestly have very little comprehension of the current world in which we live.