President Putin Values Joe Biden More Experienced, While Trump Is A Non-Synthetic Politician

Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Source: Kremlin)

JAKARTA - Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview broadcast on Wednesday, he preferred Joe Biden over Donald Trump, but remained willing to cooperate with anyone who would later become President of the United States.

In an interview with Pavel Zarubin, President Putin was asked who was "better for us" among Joe Biden who is a Democrat politician, or Donald Trump from the Republic, ahead of the US Presidential Election in November.

"Biden. He is a more experienced and predictable person, an old-school politician," Putin answered without hesitation. This is the first time Putin has publicly commented on the 2024 United States elections, where Biden and Trump are expected to compete again in elections for the second time in a row.

Amid the high political uncertainty in Uncle Sam's country, while relations between the two countries were at their lowest point for more than 60 years, Putin's comments were seen as delinquency rather than being considered mere nonsense.

"But we will cooperate with any US president who is trusted by the American people," President Putin said.

President Biden is known to have led a Western response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, including the expansion of the NATO alliance, the application of consecutive sanctions waves against Moscow, to the provision of billions of dollars worth of aid and weapons to Kyiv.

Putin allowed himself to give his opinion on the two candidates, even discussing President Biden's mental health-sensitive issues, although he said interference in the campaign was wrong.

"When I met Biden in Switzerland, it was true, it happened a few years ago, three years ago, people had said he couldn't do it. I didn't see anything like that," Putin said.

Not only that, he did not even bother with the incident when President Biden's head hit when he got out of a June helicopter last year.

"Well, who among us has never hit his head somewhere?" said President Putin.

Meanwhile, referring to Trump's reluctance to criticize Putin during his first term of office and his recent comments, including the issue of attacks on NATO members who do not fulfill his financial obligations, many believe Trump will provide easier relationships with the Kremlin's leaders.

Trump, he said, "has been called a non-systemic politician; he has his own views on the topic of how the United States should develop relations with its allies."

It is known that Putin has served as president or prime minister since 1999. He will certainly win a six-year new term in elections next month, when two candidates opposing the war in Ukraine have been disqualified for showing invalid documents.