US President Joe Biden, talking in Warsaw, stated that Russia has “strangled democracy” in its invasion of Ukraine and referred to as out Russian President Vladimir Putin’s lies in justifying the battle.
“Over the past 30 years, the forces of autocracy have revived all around the globe. Its hallmarks are acquainted ones: contempt for the guideline of legislation, contempt for democratic freedom, contempt for the reality itself,” Biden stated.
“Nowadays, Russia has strangled democracy and sought to take action in other places, no longer best in his fatherland. Beneath false claims of ethnic unity, he is invalidated neighboring countries. Putin has the gall to mention he is ‘denazifying Ukraine.’ It is a lie. It is simply cynical. He is aware of that. And it is usually obscene. President Zelensky used to be democratically elected. He is Jewish. His father’s circle of relatives used to be wiped out within the Nazi Holocaust. And Putin has the audacity, like all our autocrats earlier than him, to imagine that may will make proper,” he stated.
Biden then referenced US President Abraham Lincoln, who stated “proper makes may.”
Biden additionally addressed the Russian president’s grievance of NATO.
“A legal desires to painting NATO growth as an imperial mission geared toward destabilizing Russia. Not anything is farther from the reality. NATO is a defensive alliance. It hasn’t ever sought the death of Russia,” Biden stated.
Putin made the selection to have interaction in battle, Biden stated.
“It is not anything lower than an immediate problem to the rule-based global order established because the finish of Global Warfare II, and it threatens to go back to a long time of battle that ravaged Europe earlier than the global rule-based order used to be installed position. We can’t return to that. We can’t,” he stated.
He then defined steps to stymie Russia, together with sanctions and different financial movements.
