2024-07-20 11:48:03
“Biden would be incredibly advantageous for Putin,” says Nina Khrushcheva, a professor of international relations at the New School in New York, about which candidate for US president would be better for the Kremlin. According to the analyst, if Joe Biden won, Putin “wouldn’t have to use propaganda” too much.
“Biden would be incredibly advantageous for Putin,” says an analyst on the US presidential election Video: Reuters
Putin thinks Biden is pushing for war because NATO is pushing Russia to extremes, Khrushchev claims. “So in that sense, Biden is a better president for Putin because Putin doesn’t even have to use a lot of propaganda to continue this rhetoric that ‘the United States is out to get us,'” he explains.
On the contrary, according to the analyst, the rhetoric would be less tense with Trump, but that does not mean that it would be better for Putin. “I don’t believe that the Russians or Putin think that it will be better with Trump. If Putin supports his candidacy, it is only because he knows that he is causing chaos in the United States, and because he would like to see America in the light of: ‘You deserve all this wobbly, for the way you bastards treat us.’ In that, he would welcome Trump’s presidency,” Khrushcheva describes.
In the interview, the analyst also talked about how the war in Ukraine could end. According to her, it would be best for Putin if Ukraine and the United States, potentially the West in general, figure out how to stop the conflict in Ukraine. “I think that Putin will push for another ceasefire and an end to the conflict in those lines where the occupied territories are. Because he knows that it can get worse. I think it would be more in his interest,” he adds.
But Putin will have no problem “moving on”, thinks Khrushcheva. “He’s absolutely willing to go all the way. Whatever the very end is, he’s going to go for it. It’s like the KGB – it’s up to you, we can stop now or we can go on. And it’s going to be terrible for us, but believe me, it will be much worse for you,” he says.
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