The last warning

Moscow will try to influence the course of upcoming elections in Europe, just as it did in the USA. This was stated by American vice president Joe Biden in his last major speech in this position, Voice of America reports .

Bayden called Russia the largest threat to international liberal order. “Under President Vladimir Putin, Russia uses all possible tools to submit the facets of the European project, find the lines of fault of Western states and return to the policy determined by the spheres of influence,” said Biden, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos. “In a situation where many European countries hold the elections this year, we should expect new attempts by Russia to intervene in the democratic process. It will happen again, I promise you. And again, the purpose of this is clear: to bring down the liberal international order. "

“Simply put, Russia has a different vision of the future that they promote everywhere,” Biden said. “They want the world where the strong ones are imposing their will with the help of military power, corruption or crime, and weaker neighbors obey.”

The United States and Europe "should lead the struggle to protect the values ​​thanks to which we have reached the current situation," emphasized the outgoing vice president.

On January 11, the outgoing President of Barack Obama said that Russia and China are opponents of the United States , although "they cannot surpass America in the world." In his farewell speech, Obama called the United States the most influential country in the world, which "cannot retreat and cannot allow any large countries to intimidate small neighbors."

At the same time, the US president, speaking of the threats that America had to and faced, put in a row of Islamists and authoritarian regimes. According to him, the threat is posed not only by "aggressive fanatics speaking on behalf of Islam," but also "autocrats in foreign capitals who consider the free market, open democracy and civil society as a threat of their power."

Recently, Russia has been called the threat of both the employees of the outgoing American administration and the team members of the elected president Donald Trump. On January 12, the future US Secretary of Defense James Mattis at a hearing in the Senate said that Russia has the greatest threat to world order since the Second World War. With other threats, he called Islamic terrorism and the actions of China in the South China Sea.