Moscow has a most well-liked consequence of this November’s presidential election within the US, Russian President Vladimir Putin mentioned on Wednesday.
Speaking with journalist Pavel Zarubin on the sidelines of the Future Technologies Forum in Moscow, Putin touched on the continuing electoral marketing campaign within the US, saying it might be inappropriate for Russia to meddle within the inner American matter.
When requested who could be higher for Russia, the incumbent President Joe Biden or his Republican challenger Donald Trump, nevertheless, Putin answered unequivocally.
“Biden. He is a more experienced and predictable person, he is a politician of the old sort. But we will work with any leader who gets the confidence of the American people,” he mentioned with a chuckle.
Putin addressed the media studies about Biden’s cognitive decline by saying he hadn’t actually seen it when he met with the US chief in Switzerland three years in the past.
“So what if he whacked his head coming out of a helicopter? Who among us hasn’t hit his head on a helicopter, let him cast the first stone,” Putin mentioned. “I am not a doctor.”
According to the Russian president, the one factor that issues to Moscow is Washington’s coverage, which he described as “harmful and mistaken.”
Putin additionally commented on the latest remarks by Trump regarding sure NATO members who weren’t committing as a lot of their GDP to the army because the bloc requires.
Trump’s method to NATO “has a certain logic,” Putin mentioned, however so does the place of European international locations used to stay beneath the US “nuclear umbrella” with no questions requested. NATO “is an instrument of US foreign policy,” and if the US decides it not has use for it, that’s Washington’s prerogative, Putin mentioned. “Let them sort it out themselves.”
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