The rivalry between the United States and Russia in the political and military spheres under new US President Joe Biden will remain, there will be no breakthroughs in relations, said Konstantin Kosachev, the head of the Council of Federation's International Committee.
According to the results of the electoral vote on Monday, Democrat Biden received 306 votes against 232 votes of Republican, the current head of the White House Donald Trump, who does not recognize the results of the election. The results of the electoral vote must be approved by Congress on January 6.
"I assume that under the next president, US relations with the surrounding world, including Russia, will be built on the same principle of 'America First,' no matter what new rhetoric accompanies it. Hence, there will be no breakthrough in US-Russian relations, and intensely political, military and economic rivalry will continue," the senator told RIA Novosti.
Kosachev added that Russia should be ready for this, although it is understood that this competition should not be of an unfair nature and the rivalry "cannot be ensured by illegal methods, as all US administrations have been doing for the past several years without exception".
Kosachev recalled that both of Biden's predecessors, Barack Obama and Donald Trump, began their presidential terms with far-reaching promises to revise their predecessors' foreign policies and begin reasserting America's leadership not through imposing their own interests but through demonstrating their achievements.
"Biden has not yet made such a statement and is unlikely to do so. First of all, because there are fewer and fewer achievements of the US; the Americans are beginning to lose in the global competition, compensating the high standard of living of their citizens with a trivial increase in the national debt. And secondly, because the US can ensure its dominance in the world only through the brutal imposition of its interests - both allies and opponents," he added.
In this sense, according to Kosachev, "Biden has even less freedom of maneuver in foreign policy than his predecessors".
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