ADVERTISINGBiden He has affirmed that the pressures of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, so that Ukraine yields territory to Russia equals a “modern appeasement“. In an interview with the today’s ‘BBC’ program (the first after leaving the White House), the US former president Joe Biden said he was concerned that relations between the United States and Europe were eroding Under Trump, with NATO member countries reconsidering if you can trust Washington.
“Europe will lose confidence in the certainty of the United States and the leadership of the United States,” Biden told the ‘BBC’. The leaders of the continent, he added, have been asking: “Can I trust the United States? Are they going to be there?” According to Biden, the administration’s proposal to leave is especially worrying that Russia keeps part of the Ukrainian territory in an effort to reach a peace agreement.
“It is modern appeasement,” said Biden, who also pointed out that Trump’s rugged discussion with Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski, in the Oval Office In February he was “unworthy by the United States.”
“I don’t understand how they don’t understand that there is strength in alliances,” Biden said about the Trump administration on Monday. The term “appeasement“Refers to talks of the former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain con Adolf Hitler In the 1930s, when he tried to annex and seize border areas with Germany before World war II.
Chamberlain notoriously proclaimed the resulting agreement as a omen of “peace for our time” in September 1938. Nazi Germany invaded Poland less than a year later, thus initiating what would become the most devastating conflict that Europe has ever witnessed.
Trump said during the Electoral campaign that could end the war initiated by the Russian invasion on a large scale in a matter of days, and for a long time the conflict of waste of both lives and money from US taxpayers has labeled. But in office, his approach to negotiate the cessation of fighting has been erratic. At the beginning of his presidency, he ordered a pause in American help to Ukraine before resume it.
Last week, its administration signed an agreement with kyiv for which it was granted to the United States access to the vast mineral resources of Ukraine, a return of investment that, according to Trump, could pave the way for a greater American help To Ukraine.
Trump has also said that Crimeaillegally annexed by Russia in 2014, “will stay with Russia”, apparently dismissing the fundamental requirement of Ukraine that Russia returns the entire territory that has taken over since the country attacked for the first time.
European distrust towards the US
Biden also told the ‘BBC’ that Trump’s statements about acquiring Panama, Greenland y Canada They have generated distrust of the United States in Europe. “What president ever speak like this?” said Biden. “That is not what we are. We are for freedom, democracy, opportunity; not for confiscation.”
He also said it was a “Difficult decision“Leaving the presidential race four months before the day of the November 2024 elections to allow former Vice President Kamala Harris to challenge Trump in his place.
But he also insisted that step back beforeas some critics suggest that he should have done, he would not have meant No difference. Asked about the triumphal Trump celebration of his first 100 days in office, Biden replied that it corresponds to the story to judge his successor. “I see nothing that has been triumphant,” he said.
