After Joe Biden’s visit to Kiev, Putin may tighten the Duma’s speech

Correspondent in Moscow

There is no doubt that Joe Biden’s surprise visit to Kiev will add to the anti-Western rhetoric of Vladimir Putin’s “national address” to the Russian parliament on Tuesday. “For the Kremlin, this is yet another proof that the US has definitely bet on Russia’s strategic defeat in this war, and that the war itself has irreversibly turned into a war between Russia and the West.”explains the director of the magazine, political scientist Tatyana Stanovaya R. Politik. “It was expected that Putin’s message was very belligerent, aimed at a demonstrative break with the West. Now it can be modified to make it even more difficult.” thinks this specialist.

In Moscow, in any case, we tried to weaken the effect of the surprise caused by Mr. Biden’s visit to Ukraine. Former President Dmitry Medvedev, currently number two in Russia’s Security Council, confirmed information provided by the White House that Russia had previously been asked for “security guarantees”. And only “After receiving (these) security guarantees, Biden finally went to Kiev.”, Dmitry Medvedev said, without specifying who provided the guarantees to the American head of state and what means we are talking about. The former Russian president then continued in the unbridled manner to which he is now accustomed, saying that Joe Biden: “promised many weapons and swore an oath to the neo-Nazi regime, pledging eternal loyalty to it”…

Joe Biden’s impromptu visit to Kiev will also have a number of Russian military bloggers circling, questioning the White House chief’s “courage” to undertake the trip. This was it “Conditioned by the fact that no one was going to shoot him like Zelensky.” writes Boris Rogin, featured as “Expert of the Center for Political and Military Journalism”. in Telegram.

“Activation of military operations”.

“Biden did not go to Kiev because he is brave.”, says pro-Kremlin analyst Sergey Markov in his Telegram account. It was the president of America “Convinced that the Russian army will not bomb Kiev while he is there, he writes: On the other hand, if Putin ever goes to Donetsk, the “terrorists” in Kiev will certainly try to kill him in many ways.” And to summarize that “Therefore, Biden’s visit to Kiev confirms that Russia is right and on the side of good and evil.”according to Sergey Markov.

This once again shows that no one is going to stop the conflict and that there are no prerequisites for serious negotiations.

Denis Denisov, expert of the Government Financial University of the Russian Federation

Seen from Moscow, the event is yet another proof of American will“fell” Russia: the argument behind the official narrative developed by Vladimir Putin and head of diplomacy Sergey Lavrov. Biden’s visit “You have to see it symbolically, it’s a communication policy that is more important than reality.” Denis Denisov, an expert of the Government Financial University of the Russian Federation, moderates to some extent. “It shows once again that no one is going to stop the conflict and that there are no prerequisites for serious negotiations.” adds the expert. According to him“The supply of weapons will continue, and the meeting between Biden and Zelensky will lead to further intensification of military operations.”.

Head of Chinese Diplomacy in Moscow

It remains to be seen how China will position itself in this new phase of escalation. Indeed, while Joe Biden was leaving Kiev for Warsaw, Beijing’s diplomatic chief, Wang Yi, arrived in Moscow amid an arms race with the United States. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken accused China of planning to supply Moscow with weapons. Statements qualify as: “fake” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said on Monday.

For Moscow, the stakes of this visit are at least as important, if not more so, than Mr. Biden’s in Kiev. Russia, which relies heavily on its large eastern neighbor, particularly to redirect its hydrocarbon exports, has invited Chinese number one Xi Jinping to Moscow in the spring. But this will kick in, so it is true that in Beijing, as well as in New Delhi, we are not prepared to sacrifice more global growth on the altar of a high-risk conflict in Ukraine led by Russia’s ally.

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