Nervousness or yet another slip-up? Or again: Joe Biden did he just want to send a clear signal to Russia or did he stumble upon another gaffe? It is not the first time that the American president has addressed his Russian counterpart with contemptuous words. In the first months of the war in Ukraine, while the world was trying to prevent the conflict from prolonging over time as it then promptly happened, Biden defined Vladimir Putin a “butcher” and a “war criminal”. Now he has gone further, getting personal, and accusing him of being a “son of a p…”.
Biden’s insult to Putin
The US president was at San Francisco at a fundraiser for his countryside electoral. After the Navalny case, who died in a sort of Siberian gulag during the hour of air he was allowed during detention, Biden threw all sorts of diplomacy to the winds. “We have a crazy son of a bitch like Putin and others – he stated bluntly – and we always have to worry about conflict nuclear, but the existential threat to humanity is the climate.” These words did not go unnoticed, and certainly did not contribute to reducing bilateral tensions.
Joe vs. The Donald
Biden also turned his attention to the former president Donald Trump, harshly criticizing his recent statements. In particular, he expressed his amazement at Trump’s statements which compared the death of Russian opponent Alexei Navalny to his legal problems in the United States. A comparison considered excessive, as Trump has so far suffered a fine, albeit a heavy one (350 million dollars), while Navalny spent years in prison, until his death in suspicious circumstances. Trump, who was convicted by a New York judge of lying about his companies’ financial reports, called the ruling against him a form of “communism or fascism.” A statement that found strong condemnation from Biden: “Some of the things this man said, such as comparing himself to Navalny and saying that, since our country has become a village Communist, he was persecuted, just as Navalny was persecuted. I don’t know where the hell they come from.” The tension between the parties is now skyrocketing, confirming fears of a long heated confrontation in view of the next elections. But it is not so much on the internal front that Joe’s words risk causing embarrassment.
Biden’s slips
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