Clear criticism of the successor
Biden about Trump: “What kind of president talks?”
In his first interview since he left the office, ex-US President Joe Biden has calculated with his successor. His behavior is under America, he thinks – and expresses great concern.
Former US President Joe Biden criticized the leadership style of his successor Donald Trump in a clear words. The scene in the Oval Office of the White House, when Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj with Trump and his vice JD Vance got into a dispute that BBC was “under America” in his first interview after he left the presidential office in January.
In addition, as well as about the statements of Trump with regard to a takeover of the Panama Canal, Greenland or Canada by the USA, Biden said: “What kind of president talks?” He added: “This is not who we are. We stand for freedom, democracy, possibilities, not for confiscation.” Shortly before the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, democracy was in danger than ever.
Biden sees “modern appeasement” in Trump’s Ukraine policy
Trump’s attempt to end the war in Ukraine by pushing Kiev to the task of areas described biden as a “modern appeasement”. The term is called the policy of the former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in the 1930s, who tried to avert a war by regaining the annexation of the Sudetenland belonging to Czechoslovakia.
With a view to the war in Ukraine, Biden said that it was “just stupid” to believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin would end his aggression. The contempt for NATO and the allies by the Trump government is not understandable. “I just don’t understand how you cannot understand that there is strength in alliances, that they bring advantages and the costs for it are weighed.” Only the United States would have the capacities to lead the world. If the US government does not perceive this role, China and Russia could try to get into the gap. If NATO breaks, it will “change the modern history of the world”, warned Biden.
He does not feel remorse that he has not been to the side earlier, said the politician of the Democratic Party. “I don’t think it would have made a difference,” he said. He was ready to make room for the next generation, “but things developed so quickly that it was difficult to leave everything”. It was a difficult decision.
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Source: Stern
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