Putin holding off on US presidential congratulations

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin says Russia is willing to work with whomever is officially declared the next president of the United States, but that he won’t offer congratulations until the winner is formally decided or a candidate concedes.

Putin’s remarks broadcast Sunday on state television reiterate earlier Kremlin comments on why Putin had not congratulated Joe Biden after major news organizations called him president-elect, as did many other world leaders.

“We are just waiting for the end of the internal political confrontation,” Putin said, referring to Republican challenges to the vote count.

”We will work with any person who will be given the trust of the American people. But who will be given this trust? It must either be indicated by political custom when one of the parties recognizes the victory of the other, or the final results of the elections are summed up in a legitimate, legal way,” he said.



Russian President Vladimir Putin listens during a meeting in the Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)


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[Arne]

1. I think this guy may be a Russian.

[LSFL]

3. Lololol

[Pachamama]

2. Fuck you Vlad

We don’t give a rats ass what you feel and the United States of America doesn’t need your fucking congratulations or care what your opinion is or isn’t,

Stay the fuck out of our elections Russia

[llmart]

19. I have nothing better to add to that...

because you said what I was thinking so eloquently.

Another malignant narcissist heard from.

[lastlib]

32. Puck Futin!!

With a pitchfork. An old rusty, manure-encrusted, virus- and tetanus-infected pitchfork. Sideways. Twice.

[efhmc]

4. PreDJT. no one would have cared WHAT Putin thought or said about our election.

[Evolve Dammit]

26. That's is correct. Vlad must be laughing his ass off.

[LSFL]

5. He doesn't look so good

Maybe he will die.

[Taraman]

27. You mean, even if you have money and power...

You still die?

I had no idea.

Isn't that the damnedest thing.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

6. Dont really need your approval, Mr. P , or your opinion on when a President Elect should be

declared. We got our own country over here, and like to do things our way.

[Hip2bSquare]

7. I Really Don't Care... Do You?

Yawn!

[Sherman A1]

8. That's nice

Now stop bothering us and messing with our election process.

[RainCaster]

9. That would hurt his puppet's feelings...

... and DFT is doing such a good job of destroying American political norms. Right now, he's doing the best part of all- its the Final Destruction Scene. He wouldn't want to interfere as Trgump carries out his finest plans.

[sandensea]

10. Possibly b/c he thinks the Fat Bastard can still steal this

Proof that dictators can project just like the rest of us.

[paleotn]

17. Possibly, but I think he's very much a realist...

He knows the jig is up. And making nice won't change the ramifications. He's played a very dangerous game for a rump state that hides behind its nuclear weapons. Their economy is a mess as usual. Violent crime and suicide are still epidemic. Their population is still shrinking and Russian males have a shorter life expectancy than Pakistanis. Short of their nukes, their military is as much a paper tiger as it was during the break up. A rogue state that's highly vulnerable to real, tough economic sanctions. One of the few things going for them is Western Europe's dependence on Russian nat. gas. I'm waiting for him to start playing that card this Winter.

[sandensea]

20. Good points all.

Vlad has way too many problems to worry about as it is, without adding Repug voters' ire on top of all that.

And it's amazing about their male life expectancy being less than in Pakistan (!).

I remember when, back in the Gorbachev years, it was closer to the U.S. than to Pakistan.

Goes to show what 30 years of mismanagement will do (plus all that came before).

[Ford_Prefect]

11. Anything to foment chaos in the west and undermine legitimate government.

[iluvtennis]

12. Could care less what this enemy of the US thinks.

[rickyhall]

13. Puck Putin

[paleotn]

14. He knows the hammer is coming...

and there's really no point in making nice like the Saudis. It won't make any difference in the payback that's coming their way.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

15. Trump's a useful idiot to him

Joe won't be manipulated.

Oh and go fuck yourself Vlad.

[Paul Politerude]

16. Putin's having a Bad Month

Both his vaccine and vassal have been rejected.

[efhmc]

35. Clever and welcome.

[Paul Politerude]

39. Salute'

[tavernier]

18. Wow. I think he really thinks we care.

Quite sure Joe hasn’t given his opinion one rat’s ass.

What is it with all these needy little dictators? Im sensing that no one showed up at their birthday parties when they were kids.

[Iggo]

21. So fucking what.

[cp]

22. Squeezing every drop from his Orange Asset

before the prison door slams.

[LiberalLovinLug]

23. He's been working with the Trump campaign. Instructing them on subversive tactics.

And encouraging them to move to full time Fascism like him. He and Trump will keep pushing this as far as they can before relenting to anything.

[DENVERPOPS]

24. You can bet your sweetass

that Putin is enjoying the hell out of this. AND continuing to assist in any and all ways possible to continue his trying to divide and bring down the U.S. and Democracy.

Russian People are laughing their asses off at how easily Putin has played Trump & the greedy Republicans. Especially given the fact that he has done it without a war, or firing a single missile or rocket.......

If you think Putin has just been sitting around the last four years you need to think again.......He is developing his weaponry, his fleet of icebreakers, his submarine warfare capabilities, etc etc etc......

[StarryNite]

25. You filthy piece of shit

Go fuck yourself. Your puppet is soon to be powerless. So just go eat shit and die.

[BradBo]

28. Good, who cares.

Maybe he will get so pissed at trump he will revise the piss pics.

[rurallib]

30. He's the head of the Republican Party, correct?

[JohnnyRingo]

31. He shouldn't assume the new team will be willing to bury the sickle.

Putin was partly responsible for the orange nightmare we've been living in for the past four years, and he can't walk away like it was a college prank. This shit ends in January.

"Work together" Humph.

[They_Live]

33. tipping his hand?

i think.

[Worried2020]

34. Wise man - don't piss off the guy with access to the nuclear football . . .

.
.

/snip/

Only the president can direct the use of nuclear weapons by U.S. armed forces, through plans like OPLAN 8010-12. The president has unilateral authority as commander-in-chief to order that nuclear weapons be used for any reason at any time.

/snip/

In Presidential transitions, the president-elect does not receive the actual nuclear code card until after the nuclear briefing, when "he meets with the outgoing president at the White House just before the actual inauguration ceremony. The code card is activated electronically right after the president-elect takes the oath at noon"[15].

/snip/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_football
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yeah - I'd hang on a bit b4 celebrating methinks . . .

W

[LudwigPastorius]

36. LOL! I'm so sure Joe's feelings are hurt.

Biden understands that Putin is still a KGB officer at heart, and an enemy of the United States. And, Putin knows that Joe is not inclined to take any shit from him.

...Biden recalled visiting Putin at the Kremlin in 2011: “I had an interpreter, and when he was showing me his office I said, ‘It’s amazing what capitalism will do, won’t it? A magnificent office!’ And he laughed. As I turned, I was this close to him.” Biden held his hand a few inches from his nose. “I said, ‘Mr. Prime Minister, I’m looking into your eyes, and I don’t think you have a soul.’ ”

“You said that?” I asked. It sounded like a movie line.

“Absolutely, positively,” Biden said, and continued, “And he looked back at me, and he smiled, and he said, ‘We understand one another.’ ” Biden sat back, and said, “This is who this guy is!”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/07/28/biden-agenda

[IsItJustMe]

37. Don't trust em. Vlad or dump.

They have been working together for quit some time now. Hopefully Vlad does not know something that we don't. A little paranoia keeps you alert. Tell me I am wrong, please. LOL

[myohmy2]

38. for years...

...we've heard that putin must have 'something' on trump...

...could trump have 'something' on putin?

...or maybe they have 'something' on each other?

...there's an unhealthy 'love' between these two that confuses me...

...but I am easily confused...

[Hekate]

40. Well obviously his sock puppet isn't yet done dismantling the US federal government

So much to do, so little time.

[Xolodno]

41. Pretty much signaling...

...a hostile relationship.

Any cooperation, treaties, etc. are going to be hard fought.

[Skittles]

42. he still needs favors from his puppet Trump

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ugh

[sakabatou]

43. Awww, is he having a sad because his puppet lost?