Trump and RussiaThe irony is that, over the past four years, the Trump administration has been in various ways tough on the Kremlin. Biden and RussiaYet Biden also belonged to an administration that is perceived to have been weak on Russia and whose “reset” of relations with Moscow couldn’t check the Kremlin’s opportunism. A future President Biden would have to reckon with the likely expiry of the New START accord, which limited the number of strategic nuclear warheads deployed by the United States and Russia. “From a Russian perspective, the best outcome is a chaotic, contested election,” Polyakova said. That’s quite possible, given the real possibility that Trump may not accept defeat and may choose, instead, to litigate the election through the courts.

Source: Washington Post October 06, 2020 03:56 UTC