Former American president Joe Biden condemned Donald Trump’s policy in Ukraine, accusing his successor to “appeasement” with Russia, in an interview with the BBC broadcast on Wednesday.
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The Ukraine government’s pressures on Ukraine, exerted for Kyïv to give up land to Russia as part of a peace agreement, constitute a “appeasement of modern times”, he said, a reference to the conciliatory attitude of certain European powers in the face of Nazi Germany in the late 1930s.
The interview with the former Democratic leader has been the first since he left the White House on January 20, even if he has already spoke in public since.
“I fear that Europe would not lose confidence in the certainty and leadership of America and the world, not only with regard to NATO but also other subjects that have consequences,” he added.
-During this interview, Joe Biden also attacked Russian President Vladimir Putin, who, according to him, believes that Ukraine “is part of the Russian mother”. “He talks about Eastern Europe … What this man wants to do is (r) to establish the Warsaw Pact,” he said.
“He cannot bear (…) that the Soviet Union collapsed, and whoever thinks he will stop is simply stupid,” added the Democrat, calling for “doing everything possible to avoid war” but “not yielding to tyrants”.
Asked about the means granted to Ukraine by its own administration, head of the United States during the invasion launched by Russia in February 2022, Joe Biden said that he had provided Kyïv with all that the country “needed to ensure its independence”.
Mr. Biden also criticized the way Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was treated by the Republican administration during his visit to Washington at the end of February, when an altercation had broken down to the cameras in the oval office.
“I found that it was not so worthy of the United States, the way it happened,” said Biden.
The Democrat, who had decided in the spring of 2023 to imagine himself against Donald Trump, withdrew from the race in July 2024 after a disastrous debate, giving way to the vice-president Kamala Harris, who was clearly beaten by the republican billionaire in November.
