It will be a bad sign if Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin do not at least agree to return their ambassadors. Each was recalled in April
FOR FOUR years America’s relationship with Russia was a perfect example of Trump-era distraction: dangerous developments were obscured by an endless political tempest. Donald Trump, his critics and the press all combined to reduce a complex and important bilateral relationship to a psychodrama about the mysterious affection between him and Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president.
Yet the cold-war pageantry is in some ways a greater compliment to Mr Putin than were the blandishments of Mr Trump. Mr Biden’s aides acknowledge that Mr Putin is notching up a political victory just by sharing the spotlight with an American president, as in the days when the Soviet Union was one of two great superpowers.
Mr Biden’s aides say the president will demand that Mr Putin take action against Russian cyber-gangs believed to be behind recent ransomware attacks in America. Mr Biden is under bipartisan pressure to threaten to retaliate with America’s own cyber-weapons if Mr Putin fails to halt groups like Fancy Bear, which is thought to have hacked the Democratic Party ahead of America’s elections in 2016.
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