Russia’s FSB says it does not expect “radical changes” in US foreign policy due to Trump’s return

Accuses Biden of trying to “complicate” his successor’s options when it comes to “solving growing problems”

Nov. 26 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The director of the Federal Security Service (FSB), Alexander Bortnikov, stated this Tuesday that he does not expect that Donald Trump’s return to the White House will lead to “radical changes” in United States policies and has warned that Joe Biden’s Administration tries to “complicate” its options to “resolve the growing problems.”

“The election of a new president in the United States is unlikely to lead to radical changes in US foreign policy,” he said, before adding that “it is possible that, as part of the internal political battle, the outgoing team of “(Joe) Biden tries to make the situation as bad as possible in Eurasia.”

Thus, he stated that the US Administration would have focused “on the post-Soviet nations, the Middle East and Southeast Asia”, with the aim of “complicating the options of the next Administration to resolve the growing problems.”

Bortnikov has also pointed out that the United States, the United Kingdom and their allies will continue to try to “flagrantly interfere” in relations between the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) – made up of nine of the 15 former Soviet republics – to “undermine the integration processes” and “joint efforts to guarantee security and stability” in the region.

“Without a doubt, we all have to be prepared for any type of provocation,” the director of the FSB concluded during a meeting with heads of the security and intelligence agencies of the CIS in Moscow, according to the Russian news agency TASS. .

Bortnikov’s words come two days after Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov accused Biden of becoming an obstacle to Trump’s plans when trying to resolve the war in Ukraine, unleashed in February 2022 after the order of invasion signed by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.