Between irony and skepticism, the Russian elites preferred to joke about it: “Donald Trump or Kamala Harris? In Moscow we know who Americans really want to vote for… Vladimir Putin! » However, in the Kremlin leader’s entourage, the victory of the Republican candidate on Wednesday, November 6, does not arouse the same enthusiasm as in 2016, during the billionaire’s first elections. “It doesn’t matter who gets elected. Ultimately, Washington is against us. Nothing has changed. “Nothing will change”confided a senior Russian diplomat on the eve of the US presidential elections.
Both political leaders and Russian businessmen remember it with one voice: the hopes they had harbored with the arrival of Donald Trump to the White House in 2017 quickly faded; and his supposedly privileged ties with Vladimir Putin had not materialized into better bilateral relations. The first US sanctions against Moscow, adopted after the annexation of Crimea in 2014, have not been lifted. On the contrary, they even multiplied under Trump’s first presidency.
The Kremlin quickly reminded on Wednesday that it will try Donald Trump “about concrete actions”. Vladimir Putin does not plan to call him to congratulate him, said his spokesman, Dmitry Peskov. “ Let us not forget that we are talking about a hostile country that is directly and indirectly involved in a war against our State.”he insisted.
For his part, Dmitri Medvedev, the former Russian president who became one of the most nationalist voices in Moscow, has already warned: “We have no reason to have high expectations. For Russia, the elections will not change anything, since the positions of the candidates fully reflect the bipartisan consensus on the need to defeat our country.”he warned.
“Russophobic orientation”
Who, in the Kremlin from 2008 to 2012, was an accomplice of the American presidents and the European heads of state and government, today does not hide his distrust of Donald Trump, quickly considered an ally of the Kremlin: “A tired Trump, saying platitudes like ‘I’ll make a deal’ and ‘I have a great relationship with…’, will be forced to follow all the rules of the system. You can’t stop the war in Ukraine. Not in one day, not in three days, not in three months. And if he really tries, he could become the new JFK. »
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