Former defense intel officer Rebekah Koffler on which Biden foreign policy failures RNC speakers need to address on day three of the convention.

Two weeks ago, a U.S. intelligence official — commenting on the recent Election Security Update issued by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) — suggested that Russia prefers former President Trump to win the presidency in November.

As a former Defense Intelligence Agency officer who specializes in Russia and Putin, I totally disagree. Like many other pronouncements made by spy agencies, this one is also dead wrong. But now that Biden is out of the race, whom would Vladimir Putin favor, Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris?

Kamala, of course. Here’s why.

Putin is almost certainly terrified of another Trump presidency, but Kamala not so much. The Russians have assessed her to be vapid, unintelligent and incompetent, and can be unbalanced and manipulated in Moscow’s view.

DEMOCRATS TOLD US BIDEN WAS RAZOR SHARP. WAIT TILL AMERICA GETS THE KAMALA HARRIS SPIN

From left to right, Vice President Kamala Harris, Russian President Vladimir Putin and former President Trump. (Harris: Andrew Harnik/ Getty Images| Putin/Getty Images| Trump: PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

The Russian media, which is almost exclusively under state control, speculated on Monday whether Harris’s "cackling and giggling," "nervous, out-of-place clapping," "exaggerated gesticulation," nonsensical statements like "the passage of time," and "strange" facial expressions are a result of a psychiatric disorder or being constantly "inebriated."

Russian analysts expect Harris to continue Biden’s policies seeking to transform America from a society that’s based on meritocracy and competence to the one that is hyper-focused on forced equality and government regulation, typical of a socialist system. Since socialism destroyed the USSR, Moscow believes that someone like Harris leading America on the path of destruction is a good thing for Russia, which views the U.S. as its top security threat.

Vice President Kamala Harris shares an anecdote at an event in Colorado.

Harris, like Biden, who called Putin all sorts of derogatory names such as "war........

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