But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday put more pressure on rebellious senators from her party, calling the state’s Republican voting laws, which in many cases make it difficult to cast ballots and make it easier for politicians to meddle in elections, as “a very big threat to our country.” “. democracy.” <\/p>\n
“They’re not just suppressing the vote… they’re invalidating the election,” the California Democrat said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”<\/p>\n
Republicans such as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell accuse Democrats of threatening states’ right to hold their own elections. However, many of the new state laws are justified on the grounds of “election integrity” – a code word rooted in Trump’s lies about voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election that has been debunked multiple times.<\/p>\n
During his January 6 anniversary address in the State Capitol Hall on Thursday, Biden warned that foreign enemies are watching to see whether the United States is protecting its democracy under an unprecedented threat in modern times.<\/p>\n
“From China to Russia and beyond, they are betting that the days of democracy are numbered,” Biden said. They are betting that America is a place for the dictator, the dictator and the strongman. “<\/p>\n
Two of the most serious foreign policy challenges for the United States involve two democracies – Taiwan and Ukraine – pinning their survival hopes on US support because they exist under the threat of the most powerful and monarchical authoritarian regimes, China and Russia.<\/p>\n
Biden has personally warned Putin in several virtual summits of devastating sanctions if he orders tens of thousands of Russian troops into Ukraine to pursue Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. US officials will send the same message this week in talks that began Sunday with a working dinner between a deputy secretary of state. Foreign Minister Wendy Sherman and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov in Geneva. Talks will resume on Monday. Two days later, the NATO-Russia Council will convene in Brussels. The Vienna-based Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which includes Russia and the United States, meets on Thursday.<\/div>\n
But there is little hope of progress. The United States argues that Russia is demanding concessions that would permanently weaken NATO in Europe with its calls for the withdrawal of troops and weapons from the former Warsaw Pact countries. Moscow also wants assurances that Ukraine – the former Soviet state – will never be allowed to join the alliance.<\/p>\n
“It’s hard to see actual progress, as opposed to talking, in an atmosphere of escalation with the gun to the head of Ukraine,” US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken told Tapper on Sunday’s State of the Union. Ryabkov was equally pessimistic, saying he was “disappointed” by the signals from Washington and Brussels. “In short, it reflects a lack of understanding of what we need,” he said before making a wish list the West would never accept. \u201cWe need legal guarantees and legal guarantees that NATO will not expand further, eliminating everything that the alliance has created, driven by anti-Russian phobia and all kinds of misconceptions about the core of Russian politics for the period since 1997.\u201d <\/p>\n
His warning echoed eerily, the clashes of the late twentieth century between two ideologically opposing superpowers. While talk of a second Cold War now often refers to an American clash with China rather than Russia, there is one major difference between the period between the end of World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall. <\/p>\n
At the time, the challenge to American democracy often came from abroad. Now, he is under siege inside.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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