The American president, Joe Bidendescribed the Russian president, Vladimir Putinof “crazy HDP“The statements occurred during a meeting with donors of the Democratic Party in San Franciscoin the state of Californiafacing the November elections, in which the Democratic president will seek re-election.
After the sayings of BidenRussia responded and maintained that the insult was a shameful attempt by a head of state to behave like “ a hollywood cowboy“.
Joe Biden’s insult to Vladimir Putin
In a brief speech, the 81-year-old president said: “We have a crazy HDP like that guy Putinand others, and we always have to worry about nuclear conflict, but the existential threat to humanity is the climate.”
Then, Putin’s spokesman, Dmitri Peskovsaid the comments further humiliated USA than to Russia and expressed that “it is an immense shame for (…) the United States. If the president of this country uses this lexicon, it is inevitably shameful.”
“These rude statements cannot hurt the leader of another state, much less President Putin,” he said. To then ensure that the behavior of Biden He has a Hollywood ‘cowboy’ style.
Additionally, Peskov addressed the US president directly and asked if Putin has ever used a rude word to refer to him. “This has never happened“he assured.
The truth is that this is not the first time that the American president has used this same offensive term. In 2022, the president called a journalist in the same way and described Putin as “Butcher” and “war criminal” for the invasion of Ukraine.
The death of Alexei Navalny increased tension between Russia and the West
After announcing the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in jail, the United States’s president He said his death was “a consequence of something Putin and his thugs did.”
After the statements of Biden pointing directly against the president, from Russia they assured that the West rushed to blame Putin without waiting for evidence and that his reaction to Navalny’s death is unacceptable and unjustified.
In 2022, during a speech at Warsaw, Biden maintained that Putin “can’t stay in power” and, in 2021, he said that he seemed like a murderer, so it is a relationship that has been under constant tension for years.
Source: Ambito
