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The administration of US President Joe Biden is determined to pursue a flexible policy towards Russia, said Vladimir Vasiliev, chief researcher at the Institute of the United States and Canada, Russian Academy of Sciences, doctor of economics, Vladimir Vasiliev from Economics Today FBA. The visits of US Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and CIA Director William Burns to Moscow, he said, indicate the existence of a dialogue between countries.
Discussions have started on Biden’s second meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the White House is keeping the channel of communication with Moscow open. <...> The principle is simple here. If Biden’s team is going to get concessions from Moscow, then it introduces sanctions – for example, as it did in Washington with MIPT, and if, on the contrary, it gives the restrictions a symbolic form., – Vasilyev.
He stressed that the White House plans to use restrictive measures as an instrument of pressure on the Russian Federation. However, Biden does not need sweeping restrictions and the Senate’s right to unilaterally adopt anti-Russian sanctions.
Vasiliev added that there is a struggle within the US presidential administration over whether to drop sanctions against Nord Stream 2 or keep election promises and seek to stop the project. The United States understands that the pipeline will be launched and that its freeze will create big problems for the German economy, the expert noted.
Earlier, it was reported that the Biden administration was seeking to exclude sanctions on Project Nord Stream 2 from the annual United States defense budget. Thus, the American president is trying to prevent the implementation of restrictive measures against German companies involved in the project.
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