Our election 2020 review of Biden's Russia policy.
1) "In the Senate, Joe Biden took a rather benign view toward Moscow. He was considered soft toward the USSR and did not distinguish himself with trying to help it collapse during the Reagan years." centerforsecuritypolicy.org/national-secur…
1) "In the Senate, Joe Biden took a rather benign view toward Moscow. He was considered soft toward the USSR and did not distinguish himself with trying to help it collapse during the Reagan years." centerforsecuritypolicy.org/national-secur…
2) "After the Soviet collapse, he [Biden] became a top proponent of massive US aid programs that led – as current Center staff warned at the time – to the creation of the KGB/gangster-state that it has become under Putin."
3) "Biden supported Putin’s rule at first in the early 2000s, then backed away to support Putin’s powerless opposition."
4) "Biden raised few issues over the past 30 years about Russia’s strategic nuclear modernization, and indeed voted to subsidize it with US tax dollars under an arms-control rubric."
5) "As vice president he [Biden] supported Russia’s western neighbor Ukraine, where his son landed a million-dollar-a-year position with a Russia-connected Ukrainian gas company as part of an influence operation aimed at the Obama administration."
6) "The Obama team knew since 2014 that Russia was trying to subvert US elections but did nothing until late 2016."
7) "Over the past several years, Biden has been rhetorically tough against Putin and supportive of his internal opposition, and supported Magnitsky sanctions against Putin-allied oligarchs."
8) "He [Biden] opposes defenses to shoot down Russian missiles aimed at the United States and has broken with Obama to embrace a 'no first use' nuclear weapons policy."
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