US President Joe Biden. File photoMOSCOW, Oct 20U.S. President Biden should develop a smart strategy to de-escalate the conflict in Ukraine, retired U.S. military intelligence officer Rebecca Koffler said in a Fox News op-ed. the current stage to reduce the degree of tension in Russian-American relations. The first of these is the threat of a full-scale war. 
The White House is trying to prevent a meeting between Putin and Biden at the G20, write the media «Now we are in a spiral of escalation in relations with Russia, risking drawing our country into a conflict between Russia and NATO,» Koffler wrote. The second reason, according to the author, is in the decades-long rivalry between Washington and Moscow, which inclines the States to “teach Putin a lesson” instead of rationally and balancedly assessing the situation. Koffler also called Biden’s attacks on Russian leader Vladimir Putin, whom the White House owner called a “war criminal,” a mistake. According to the ex-intelligence officer, such rhetoric served to escalate the crisis. As a fourth reason, the author mentions the likelihood of a force majeure situation that could lead to serious consequences. As an example, she cited the incident with a Korean airliner that was shot down in 1983 over Sakhalin due to violation of airspace and non-compliance with instructions.Biden got lost during the speech and could not find a way out of the stageFinally, the fifth reason, according to Koffler, is NATO nuclear military exercises, which are held «in the midst of an active conflict against the backdrop of the deepest crisis in the history of Russian-American relations» and increase the likelihood of misunderstandings between the parties. The author called on Biden to revise the strategy on Ukraine in order to prevent the nuclear Armageddon he mentioned and initiate a negotiation process between Moscow and Kyiv. in the fight against Russia, it is ready to destroy Ukraine, Buyakevich said Russia has been conducting a special operation to liberate Donbass from Kyiv nationalists since February 24. Vladimir Putin called its task “the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.” On September 30, the President signed agreements on the admission of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, as well as the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, to the country. He assured that the state will ensure the security of new regions and restore the infrastructure destroyed by Ukrainian troops.
