Trump appeases Putin with pressure on Ukraine

Joe Biden announced the BBC that the pressure of the Trump administration on Ukraine, to give up the territory to Russia, is in an exclusive interview “The Modern Patterth”, its first since leaving the white house.

On Monday in Delaware, he said that Russian President Vladimir Putin believed that Ukraine was part of Russia, and “anyone who believes that he will stop” if a territory is admitted as part of a peace agreement “is simply stupid”.

Biden, who spoke as an Allied nations this week on the 80th anniversary of the VE day, said that he was concerned about the relationships between US Europe and Europe, which collapsed under President Donald Trump, “would change the modern history of the world”.

In a far -reaching interview with today's program of BBC Radio 4, Biden was in his own record in Ukraine and his decision to end his re -election offer from 2024 late in the race, ended in a crisis after a stumbling block in terms of its fitness and brought the democratic party into a crisis.

Biden broke out less than four months before the elections in November, and when he was pushed to whether he should have been going earlier and selected more time for a replacement, he said: “I don't think it would be important. We went at a time when we had a good candidate.”

“Things moved so quickly that it made it difficult to go away. And it was a difficult decision,” he said. “I think it was the right decision. I think that … it was only a difficult decision.”

After the treatment of the US allies by the current administration, the former President Trump's demands to recapture the Panama Canal, to acquire Greenland and to make Canada the 51st state.

“What the hell is going on here? Which president ever speaks so? This is not the one we are,” he said. “We have freedom, democracy, chances, not about confiscation.”

In Ukraine, bidges were questioned whether he supported Kyiv enough to ensure that they could win the war instead of opposing the full invasion of Russia. During three years of fighting, his white house changed his position to use weapons in the USA and raised some restrictions over time.

“We gave them everything they needed to take care of their independence and we were willing to answer more aggressive when Putin moved again,” he said.

Biden was also asked about comments from the Trump administration, who point out that Kyiv has to give up a territory to secure a peace agreement that would put an end to the fights.

The US Vice President JD Vance recently presented the US vision for a peace plan in Ukraine and said that she would “freeze the territorial lines … near her place”.

He said that Ukraine and Russia “will both have to give up part of the territory that they currently have”. Defense Minister Pete Hegseth repeated this message and said that a return to the borders of Ukraine before 2014 was “unrealistic”.

“It is a modern appeasement,” said Biden on Monday, a reference to the policies of the former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who appeased Adolf Hitler's demands for a failed attempt at the end of the 1930s to avoid a catastrophic all-out war in Europe.

He also commented on the fact that “Europe will lose trust in America's certainty and the leadership of America”.

The leaders of the continent, he added, “asked himself”, what do I do now? … can I rely on the United States? Will you be there? “

Trump said that he expects Russia to retain the Crimea Peninsula, which was illegally annexed by Moscow in 2014, and last month he accused the leader of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, to damage the peace negotiations when Zelensky rejected the proposal.

Reports indicate that the latest US proposals for an armistice statement not only contain the formal recognition of the US crime as part of Russia, but also the recognition of Russian control over other occupied areas in Ukraine. The White House has not publicly confirmed the details.

“I have no favorites. I don't want to have a favorite. I want to complete a deal,” said Trump last month when he was asked about the recognition of Russian sovereignty about the Crimea.

“Yes, of course, [the Ukrainians] If you are angry that they have entered, “said VP Vance last week about Fox News.

The pressure to cede land not only comes from Washington with the mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, and announced the BBC last month that Ukraine may have to give up the territory temporarily.

Biden discussed Putin, said Biden: “I just don't understand how people think when we allow a dictator, a racket, to decide that he will take significant parts of land, which will not be, that will be satisfactory. I don't quite understand.”

He also said that he feared some NATO alliance countries that the border of Russia could “only say that we have to accommodate Putin” if Ukraine ultimately gives up land.

Trump has long opposed to continue the level of US military support that gave Ukraine bidges, and argues that his last goal is to end bloodshed. He previously said Zelensky played bidges “like a violin”.

The tensions between the White House and the Ukrainian leader exploded in a public perspective in February when Trump and Vance Zelensky insulted and demanded that he thank you more for years during an extraordinary television meeting in the Oval Office.

“I found it under America in the way it took place,” said Biden about the meeting.

Trump and his top officials have repeatedly criticized the European countries that they did not spend enough for their own defense and have rely too much on the support of the USA.

The United States is some margins of the largest individual donor in Ukraine, but according to the Kiel Institute, a German-based thinking factory tracking support for Kyiv, the European countries have spent more money together.

“I don't understand how they do not understand that there is strength in alliances,” Biden said on Monday about the Trump administration. “There are advantages … it saves money overall.”

When asked about the first 100 days of President Trump, in which a hurricane of executivations and a comprehensive cuts for the size and expenditure of the Federal Government were seen, Biden emblazoned his own recording and tried to have a strong contrast between the time of leaving the office and now left the office and now.

“Our economy grew. We moved in a direction in which the stock market is far. We were in a situation in which we expanded our influence in the world in a positive way and increased the trade,” he said about the state of the country when he left the white house in January.

In the meantime, Trump says that he is calling for a necessary revision of the world to the USA, the control of the trade, the control of illegal immigration and the more efficient government. He celebrated the 100-day milestone last week with a triumphant speech. What makes bidges from the start of Trump 2.0?

“I will have the story assessed,” he said. “I don't see anything that was triumphant.”

Additional reporting Kirsty Mackenzie and Gareth Evans