Posted on 11/09/2020 3:55:38 AM PST by USA Conservative
Russian President Vladimir Putin will not congratulate Joe Biden until the U.S. election results are finalized, the Kremlin’s top spokesman said Monday.
“Anticipating your possible question about Putin congratulating the U.S. president-elect, I want to say the following: we consider it correct to wait for the official summing up of the results of the elections,” Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, according to Interfax, the Russian news agency.
Russia has sought to amplify President Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of widespread election fraud, with the head of Russia’s Central Election Commission, Ella Pamfilova, emphasizing that she has prohibited all voting by mail because of the risks of cheating.
In an interview with Tass news agency, Pamfilova said the U.S. election had shown that mail-in voting “opens immense scope for possible falsifications” and insisted that this is why she has banned the practice despite Russian law allowing for it. (She did not mention Russia’s notoriously unreliable postal service.)
Elections in Russia are hardly recognized as free or fair, with Putin repeatedly running against a familiar cast of Kremlin-approved opposition figures, while also making changes to the Russian constitution allowing him to extend his rule.
Putin also quickly recognized this year’s presidential election results in Belarus, widely disputed as fraudulent, and issued congratulations to Alexander Lukashenko. Demonstrators in Belarus have been protesting those results for three months now.
In his comments on Monday, Peskov cited “certain legal procedures” as the basis for Putin withholding his congratulations from Biden, unlike in 2016 when the Russian leader swiftly sent good wishes to Trump after his victory over Hillary Clinton.
“The difference is quite obvious,” Peskov said, according to Interfax. “You see that there are certain legal procedures ahead, which were announced by the incumbent president. This is the difference. Therefore, we consider it correct to wait for the official announcement.”
He added: “There are no official results yet.”
But Peskov did reiterate Russia’s desire to work with the U.S. leadership. “I want to remind you that President Putin has repeatedly said that he will show respect for any choice of the American people, and that he will be ready to work with any president-elect of the United States,” he said.
As the former head of the KGB, he certainly has intelligence we info just the same as we do. How many Chinese Chess Champions have there been? The CCP doesnt have half what the Russians have as far as intel is concerned.
Let’s see... leaders of China, Russia, and Mexico have all announced they will wait until the legal process is completed. Good for them.
Xi in China is taking the same approach. The real power players are aware that Trump isn’t finished.
During my entire life of 63 years, the USSR/Russia and China have been attached at the hip like Siamese twins. This has never really changed. Aligning yourself with one side, plays right into the other’s sides hands.
People are saying they used a Hunter double during speech.. Pics i saw didnt look like the hunter on his porn tapes.
Saudi has congratulated biden.
Oh okay Nevermind. Wow. Then just Turkey still...
(Not that Turkey is Arab, but Muslim. Wonder if it’ll say anything soon.)
Putin won’t congratulate Biden until ‘legal procedures’ are settled.
Probably one of Bidens suck-ups called Putin and asked him to suck up. Putin is much too smart to kiss Biden’s ass this early in the game.
My response was in a completely different realm.
Just to clarify, i wasnt speaking of the intelligence of the Chinese. I was speaking of intel gathering. Something we fortunately put a damper on. So that strategy is a check in the game of chess.
Putin has been more Republican than Democrat in his personal comments of the last couple of years.
God bless him.
I know that many FReepers are down on Putin, but he sure has got some things right.
This is one of them.
I never thought I’d see the day when RUSSIA is a better friend to US than ISRAEL is.
Hurrah, Putin! I’ve been thinking Trump might be able to talk Putin into making a few business changes. I mean the way Russia runs business.
*** I know that many FReepers are down on Putin, but he sure has got some things right. ***
Prepare for comments like the following if you say anything complimentary about Putin. I have learned to wear them like a badge of honor. And yes, this was an actual post to me by a fellow FReeper yesterday:
“Ahhh the lil Russian communist putinist maggot shill comes out his lil hell hole too defend da Czarist Comrade Putin and mother Russia it’s not propaganda comrade it’s absolute truth now run along back to the Sputnik forums or Stormfront in talking about those evil Zionist JOOOOOS.”
Ironically, I see Putin having more integrity than virtually any democrat. Any ONE of them, or they wouldn’t be democrat.
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