Biden doesn't trust Putin

This is the only possible position in politics today: not to trust Putin. Putin has already lied to everyone so many times, reneged on his own words, broken his own promises, that in such a situation one should monitor only his real actions and intentions, not his words. It is simply necessary to accept as a fact that it is impossible to seriously agree on anything with this person. That the war will not end with negotiations, but will end only when one of the parties will not have the strength to continue this conflict. And our task is that this side is Russia. And Putin's task is for Ukraine to be this party. To exhaust us as much as possible, just squeeze like a lemon. And get this lemon on the festive table to expand the empire.

Putin's speech at the meeting of the Valdai Club demonstrated that he had not given up one iota of his previous intentions. Just ready to stretch them in time. Moreover, he wants to make this war global. The global war between democracies and dictatorships. And in this his intentions may completely coincide with the intentions of the political leadership of the People's Republic of China. It is no coincidence that the words of frank support from this leadership sounded just on the day when Putin released his next keynote speech.

I am surprised when people put their hopes not on our victory, but on the collapse of Russia and believe that Putin will soon be overthrown and that the Russians will "lose their patience".  I am surprised when they hope for Putin's death. When Ukrainian politicians and journalists laugh at Putin's age and mockingly call him an "old man". Sorry, but Putin is younger than Biden, Trump, and Nancy Pelosi. I would very much like the Russian president to be the same age as the American president.  But the Russian president is the same age as the head of the People's Republic of China.  This duo still has huge plans for the future, and it is this plan that we must confront. We have to defeat Russia as it is. Or suffer a crushing defeat and disappear from the political map of the world. We have no other choice.

About the author: Vitaliy Portnikov, writer, journalist.