Putin is taking advantage of Biden's non-reaction

Jul 7, 2021 15:38 GMT  ·  By

It seems that Biden Administration's foreign policy contains unachievable objectives, according Rebekah Koffler, a former Defense Intelligence Agency officer cited by Fox News. Biden's naive approach involves pleading with Russia's leader, Vladimir Putin, to cooperate in combating Russian cybercrime.

By insisting on an overly controlled situation and demanding that Russian hackers refrain from using cyberattacks on a regular basis, Joe Biden and his team of advisors are sending a weak message to a Russian president who is not interested in stability and sees cyberattacks as useful weapons.

Despite President Biden's silly attitude that led him to pass a list of “do not attack” vital infrastructure targets to Putin during a meeting in June, Russia was undeterred in continuing its cyber warfare campaign.

Putin believes that Russia's so-called low grade cyber warfare, that he says aims to destabilize the United States, will not compel the United States to react with military force. The asymmetric doctrine that Russia has adopted, according to which the battle would be waged below the level of a kinetic conflict, consists of many components.

Putin is unimpressed with U.S. President Biden ineffective response to Russian cyberattacks 

Putin showed that he ignored Biden's requests by engaging in a catastrophic assault on the United States some weeks after Biden had asked him to stop cyber attacks on the country. In Putin's mind, the summit was a spectacle, an opportunity for him to publicly embarrass the U.S. while also validating his self-portrayal as a world leader who could stand toe-to-toe with the U.S.

The Russian journalists who followed the meeting described how Biden's advisors had ridiculed the team by stating that the U.S. is more frightened of a cyberattack than a nuclear one. As Putin devotes a great deal of time and effort to project the image of a strong leader, Biden's approach, that seems sluggish and weak, allows the Russian leader to behave in this manner.