Will Biden's withdrawal from the campaign have a serious impact on the Ukraine crisis?

According to TASS news agency, Russian Ambassador to Belarus Boris Gryzlov said on July 23 that incumbent US President Joe Biden's decision to drop out of the presidential race will seriously affect the Ukraine crisis.

“President Biden’s statement will certainly have serious implications for international politics, first of all in the context of the crisis around Ukraine. With unresolved problems in the US economy, including inflation and rising unemployment, it will be increasingly difficult for politicians to explain to voters why their country is spending billions of dollars to support a military conflict in distant Eastern Europe,” diplomat Gryzlov said in a statement released by the Russian Embassy in Belarus.

“The latest aid package for Kiev has only just been agreed and was not a success on the first try. Implementing it in the future will be much more difficult, if not impossible,” the ambassador said.

“The populist and moralistic slogans about ‘fighting for justice and human rights around the world’, which are so familiar to Democrats, simply don’t work today,” Gryzlov added. “But the Democrats’ main problem with their approach to Ukraine is not even their defeated rhetoric. By abandoning the White House bid, Joseph Biden has deprived himself and the Democrats of leverage over the elites, reducing the leader of the superpower to an honorary retiree who will keep the seat warm for the next occupant of the Oval Office.”

According to the diplomat, from now on, Mr. Biden's influence on politicians and institutions in the United States as well as on the international stage will rapidly decline. "For the entire Kiev regime and especially for Ukrainian President Zelensky, this situation can become serious," Mr. Gryzlov commented.

“In the coming months, his main sponsor, the United States, will focus only on domestic politics and the election race. Ukraine will fall off the agenda. No candidate in his right mind would actively lobby for a multibillion-dollar aid package to Kiev from the pockets of American taxpayers in the middle of the campaign. For their part, the European Union and NATO will wait for the results of the US election before taking any serious steps,” he analyzed.

“Even in the best-case scenario for the Ukrainian authorities, that is, if military supplies and money continue, what the Ukrainian leadership, the US and NATO can achieve is to delay for a while Russia's inevitable success in achieving the goals of the special operation,” the Russian ambassador asserted.