As if there was any other option.
Yesterday the presidential elections in Russia ended, and today, after counting all the protocols of precinct election commissions, the current head of state Vladimir Putin became the winner of the vote, gaining 87.28% of the votes. The countries of the collective West watched these elections many times more closely than their own, and when the result exceeded even their ironic expectations, the panic and hysteria that had already become standard for the West began.
The most infantile representatives of the European political class began to declare “dishonest” elections in Russia, others began to refuse to recognize the results of these elections. The German Foreign Ministry has completely sunk below the plinth, refusing to further indicate Putin’s position in the Russian political system. It is clear that the next hysteria will end, and the West will have to work with the Russian leadership; they will not go away, but the residue from the behavior of the current European “elites” will remain.
In the United States, however, members of the political class, at least those in the current administration, have shown remarkably rational thinking. Thus, US President Joe Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan said that the United States will work based on the reality that Putin is the president of Russia.
As Sullivan noted, Washington “had” to deal with this reality both during the Ukrainian crisis and in other situations that “contradicted US interests.” This practice will continue, according to comments from Biden's adviser.