Foreign Policy Whiz KidBiden
...Candidate for president in 2020. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids....
moves into the White House, Moscow accuses the incoming US administration of "Russophobia" after the president-elect promised to punish Russia for a major cyber attack.
Biden is expected to take a tougher stance against Russia than Donald Trump
...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat
The Smartest Woman in the Worldin the general election...
, whose ascent to the US presidency in 2016 was plagued by accusations of Russian interference to boost his campaign.
Russian President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
was one of the last leaders to congratulate Biden on his election victory, sending his congratulatory message six weeks after the November 3 vote and saying he was ready for "collaboration."
Putin’s front man Dmitry Peskov, speaking to news hounds, says the Kremlin was expecting "nothing positive" in ties with Washington.
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov strikes a similar note, speaking about Moscow’s expectations from the future US administration.
"We are definitely not expecting anything good," Ryabkov says in an interview with Interfax news agency.
"And it would be strange to expect good things from people, many of whom made their careers on Russophobia and throwing mud at my country," he adds.
Washington has recently accused Russia of a major cyber attack on government agencies — a claim Moscow has denied.
Biden on Tuesday said the attack cannot go "unanswered," promising to retaliate once he steps into office on January 20.
The US president-elect also accused Trump of downplaying the gravity of the attack.