Vladimir Putin Under US Pressure

<p>Vladimir Putin who has served as President of Russia since 2012 is under pressure from Washington DC<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that Vladimir Putin is a Russian politician and a former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012&period; He was previously being in the office from 1999 until 2008&period; He was also Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Of all this period however&comma; OpenLife Nigeria gathered that Vladimir Putin has tied Washington in knots for years&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Now&comma; credible information has it that the Russian leader is facing sudden political pressure at home&comma; and the United States of America&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Without doubt&comma; US has the capability to inflict pains on Vladimir Putin as a pay back for his &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;sins&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; this online medium gathered that the days of a US President fawning over the Kremlin leader are over&period; According to a White House readout of Joe Biden&&num;8217&semi;s first call to Moscow&comma; he got in Putin’s ear on the treatment of opposition leader Alexey Navalny&comma; Russia’s crackdown on demonstrators&comma; its alleged hack of the US government and Russian forces’ assault on Ukraine&period; In a reflection of the pragmatism running through his foreign policy&comma; Biden also confirmed to Putin that he wants to extend the START nuclear treaty&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>With Navalny&&num;8217&semi;s return home and associated protests challenging the Russian President’s iron grip&comma; the US might be now tempted to try to further destabilize Vladimir Putin&period; Outspoken support for the detained Navalny would bolster Biden’s promises to revive global democracy&period; And Putin hasn&&num;8217&semi;t yet paid a price for meddling in US politics during the 2016 election&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But these are treacherous waters&period; Any suggestion the<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;"> US<&sol;a> is trying to push Vladimir Putin out could make Navalny’s plight even more precarious and fuel the Kremlin&&num;8217&semi;s perpetual claims that Washington is behind demonstrations&period; After all&comma; US intelligence agencies say Putin’s election interference was prompted by the belief that ex-secretary of State&comma; Hillary Clinton had once tried to oust him&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For obvious reasons&comma; any in-kind US reprisals for the hack may never become public&period; Overt retaliation against Moscow is likely to be with the familiar tool of sanctions&period; And while there’s no chance of the kind of &&num;8220&semi;reset&&num;8221&semi; in US-Russia relations initiated at the start of the Obama administration&comma; there’s also no sense in relaunching the Cold War&comma; especially with another looming with <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">China<&sol;a>&period; But there’s certainly a new chill between the White House and the Kremlin&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;