Joe Biden, the President of the United States, is said to be quick to swear in private.
But this time, during a meeting in San Francisco (California) with Democratic donors, it was in public that he called Vladimir Putin a “crazy bastard”, before also virulently attacking Donald Trump , his likely rival in the next presidential election.
“The existential threat is climate change.
There is that crazy bastard Putin, and others, and we always have to worry about nuclear war, but the existential threat to humanity is climate change,” the president said. 81-year-old Democrat.
In English, Joe Biden used the three letters “SOB”, a shortcut for “son of a bitch”, an insult translatable into French as “bastard”, “asshole”, even “son of a bitch”.
The American president had already, in the past, called his Russian counterpart a “butcher” and a “war criminal”.
Sanctions expected
He also attacked former President Donald Trump, who will in all probability be his opponent in November after his reaction to the death in prison of Alexeï Navalny.
The Republican had likened his problems with American justice to political persecution and compared his fate to that of the Russian opponent.
“If I had said something like that in front of you 10 or 15 years ago, you would all have thought that I had to be forcibly interned,” said Joe Biden.
Beyond these invectives, the President of the United States promised to announce “major” sanctions against Russia on Friday in response to the death of Alexeï Navalny.
“We already have sanctions but we are in the process of considering additional ones, yes,” responded to journalists the democratic leader who had judged President Putin “responsible” for the death of Navalny announced Friday in a prison in the 'Arctic.
The United States and the European Union have already applied a battery of sanctions against Moscow since the outbreak of war following the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
At the same time, he accused the Republicans of playing into Moscow's hands by blocking new aid for Ukraine.
“The way they (the Republicans) are turning away from the threat that Russia represents, the way they are turning away from NATO and our obligations, it is simply shocking,” added Joe Biden.
The Democratic leader has been outraged for ten days by the comments of Donald Trump, his probable rival in November, who said that under his presidency, the United States would not protect a NATO ally, or even “encourage” Russia to attack it if its military spending did not reach 2% of its GDP.