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Biden to Putin: Get your ransomware gangs under control and don’t you dare cyber-attack our infrastructure

Michael Wojcik Silver badge

Re: Putin quote

To be fair, it is an important topic for high-level US-Russia diplomacy. Putin is perfectly aware that this is a hot issue in the US. He wants to see how the Biden administration is going to frame its diplomacy, what the tone and terms are going to be, so he and his team can construct the framework for Russia's response.

Putin manages his relationship with the US carefully to minimize the political leverage the US administration has to act against Russian interests, while also minimizing any cost to Russia in concessions to the US. There are, of course, various other aspects of Russian foreign policy which are at least as important to him, but this is certainly one that matters.

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