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ELATED Russians have celebrated Biden’s car-crash TV debate as the Kremlin said Putin was apparently “too bored” to even watch it.
The current US President, 81, staggered and stumbled through his 90-minute clash with Donald Trump, 78, on Thursday.
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AFPThe impression in Moscow is that Putin will be able to dictate terms in the war in Ukraine with the West appearing leaderless.
The Kremlin seemed to minimise the debate as Putin’s team claimed the dictator was too busy to wake up and watch the showdown.
Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: “I don’t think you would expect that the President of Russia could set an alarm clock, wake up in the morning and watch a debate in the United States.
“After all, this is not an event on our agenda.”
Peskov added: “We have a lot of issues that are really important to our country and that are relevant to us. These are the issues that our president is dealing with.
“Debates in the United States are not in any way in the category of the top issues on the agenda.
“But nevertheless, of course, we have seen media reports about these debates, we will familiarise ourselves with them in more detail.
“This is an internal matter of the United States. So, of course, we will familiarise ourselves with all the statements that have been made.”
‘Totally unfit for office,’ Farage rips Biden apart
by Harry Cole, Political Editor
NIGEL Farage has branded Joe Biden’s election debate performance “worse than anyone can believe”.
The Reform leader, and Trump ally, told The Sun that the US president is “totally unfit for office.”
His intervention comes as Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer refused to comment on the President’s worrying performance.
Sir Keir would not comment on the dire showdown, saying this morning: “I have to say I’ve got enough on my hands with my own election campaign to go too far into that.
“In the end, the person who is president of the US will be determined by the American people in due course and if we’re elected into government to serve, we will deal with whoever is the president.
“The relationship between the UK and the US is strong, it’s historic and obviously it’s above the individuals who are in office.”
Asked if he was worried about Biden, he said: “Well, look, I don’t think me commentating on the American election is helpful. We’ve got our own election going on here.
“And in the end it’s not for me, it’s for the American people to decide and they will decide and we’ll deal with whoever they elect in as their president.”
Many Russians believe that Donald Trump would be more favourable to Putin both in backing Moscow’s demands and stopping the flow of Western munitions to Kyiv.
Professor Alexey Chesnakov, of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, declared: “Who won today’s debate? Putin!”
Putin’s gleeful propagandists rejoiced in exploiting Biden’s weak performance.
Valentin Bogdanov on Kremlin mouthpiece channel, RT: “A half-open mouth, unblinking eyes, a blank expression on his face—this is how Joe Biden appeared before an audience of millions.
“He added to this sad spectacle a hoarse voice, swallowed words and constant slips of the tongue.
“The most loyal liberal CNN anchors were powerless. The head of the White House did not even lose to Trump. To himself.”
There was now “deep panic” in the Democratic Party.
Pro-Kremlin outlet Pool No. 3 mocked that Biden “was taken out in public for an hour and a half without assistants, cheat sheets or a prompter and everyone saw who he really was.
It went to describe the US President as “an elderly, frail man with weak memory and partial loss of thinking, who, in an amicable way, should be babysitting his grandchildren at home, and not to impose democracy around the world in an aggressive manner.”
“To put it simply, the States discovered that their king was completely naked,” it continued.
“That is why there is such a howl in the Washington swamp.”
It claimed: “Putin, naturally, won in the debates.”
Political scientist Alexander Gorbunov ridiculed the US political system, contrasting it with Russia’s dictatorship which ensured strong leadership.
He said: “Everyone understands that one [contender] has already lost his presence in this world, and the second is present purely for fun [Trump].
“In theory, both of them should have been dumped at the primaries stage: for health reasons and a combination of scandals.
“But in practice, no one will loudly say: ‘Listen, these two have already sat in the Oval Office, let’s consider someone else?’ “
“The third [option] is not even in a hypothetical idea….How do you say in English: ‘If not Putin, then who?’,” Gorbunov said.
Another pro-Kremlin Telegram channel reported: “Convincing victory for Putin.”
Vladimir Kornilov, analyst at state news outlet Russia Today, noted a veteran Democratic strategist saying that Biden cannot now beat Trump.
The Russian pundit said: “I just want to ask this “experienced strategist”: wasn’t this clear to you before the debate?”
Earlier state-run Channel One said: “For Donald Trump, the issue is that he is a convicted felon, and for Joe Biden, it is his age.
“This might seem a formality, but the chances of at least one or even both of them not being the candidate are not zero.”
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