Joe Biden Slams Trump for the “stupid” summon of Putin

Former President Joe Biden has accused the Trump administration of the “modern appeasement” in dealing with Russia Vladimir Putin and the risk of transatlantic alliance that has prevented one First World War for 80 years.

In his first interview since the office in January in January, Biden told BBC Radio 4 that it was “stupid” to believe that Putin would be satisfied by permanently obtaining the area that his armed forces confiscated after the invasion of 2022, which President Donald Trump and high -ranking civil servants may have had to secure a peace agreement.

In the far-reaching interview, which was broadcast on Wednesday morning, Biden also distributed a passionate defense of his records about the economy and the US help for Ukraine, while he offered strongly formulated attacks on the current administration.

Sometimes Biden sounded hoarse and apologized at a time for a continuing cough and was to close his words at other times, a memory of the catastrophic presidential debate with Trump, which ended his campaign for the re -election last year.

“I just don't understand how people think when we admit a dictator, a racket, to decide that he will take significant parts of the country that are not, and that will satisfy him, I don't quite understand,” said Biden and spoke from his hometown Wilmington, Delaware.

“It is a modern appeasement,” he said, referring to the politics of Great Britain and other nations towards Nazi Germany in the 1930s, in which the leaders hoped that the war could be avoided if Adolf Hitler could achieve a number of territorial profits.

“What this man wants to do is to restore the Warsaw Pact – he cannot stand that the Russian dictatorship he runs is that the Soviet Union has collapsed. And everyone who thinks he will just stop,” said Biden.

Biden spoke to Mark on the 80th anniversary of VE Day, which marked the Allied victory in Europe at the end of the Second World War, and argued that NATO has successfully brought Europe and the broader world to safety since then.

Trump criticized NATO, which favored an isolationist “America First” fuel policy, and signaled a major change in US policy compared to the alliance, including the potentially ending US command about NATO operations in Europe.

When asked whether the alliance could die out, he said: “It is a serious problem, I think it would change the modern history of the world if that happens.

“We are the only nation that is able to bring people together and lead the world. Otherwise they will perform China and the former Soviet Union, Russia.”

He added that there was now a more serious threat to democracy than at some point since the Second World War and that without NATO's buffer, all members had to militarily defend a military defense member at Article 5 of the contract – Putin would not have stopped in Ukraine.

“Take a look at the number of European leaders who ask themselves: 'What am I doing now? What is the best route for me? Can I rely on the United States, will you be there?' Instead of democracies that expand worldwide, they step back, ”he said.

Biden said the extraordinary argument between Trump and the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in February was “under America” ​​and was part of a more comprehensive trend of the Trump government that broke with long traditions and norms.

“In this way we talk about the Gulf of America, or we have to take Panama back, maybe we have to buy Greenland, maybe Canada. What the hell is going on here? Which president ever speaks like that?” Said biden.

When asked whether Trump would behave more like a king than a president, Biden said: “I would rather not comment. He does not behave like a Republican president.”

Some critics have argued that bidens reluctance to Ukraine, especially long -range missiles in the early stages of Russia's invasion, led to Kyiv Putin's armed forces on the battlefield.

Trump also blamed Biden for the war in Ukraine, who started when Russia started a full invasion of his smaller neighbor, and said it would not have happened if he had been president.

During the interview, Biden argued that his government had managed to avoid a world war between nuclear powers, and “gave them everything they needed for their independence”, and he would have “replied more aggressively if Putin actually moved again”.

Whether he had the right to move away from the democratic nomination and support Kamala Harris – or whether he should have heard critics and should have done it earlier – admitted that it was a difficult choice.

“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.”