Biden criticizes Trump for ‘modern-day appeasement’ in Ukraine
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Former President Joe Biden criticized President Donald Trump for suggesting Ukraine may have to give up territory in exchange for peace, calling it a “modern-day appeasement,” in reference to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s efforts to appease Adolf Hitler as he sought to annex land in the 1930s.
Former President Joe Biden criticized President Donald Trump for suggesting Ukraine may have to give up territory in exchange for peace, calling it a “modern-day appeasement,” in reference to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s efforts to appease Adolf Hitler as he sought to annex land in the 1930s. “I just don’t understand how people think that if we allow a dictator, a thug, to decide he’s going to take significant portions of land that aren’t his, and that’s going to satisfy him. I don’t, I don’t quite understand,” Biden said, referencing Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with BBC Radio 4’s Today program. The former president also said he found it “beneath America” the way Trump berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky earlier this year in a tense Oval Office meeting, while also questioning Trump’s comments on the Gulf of America and desire to acquire Panama, Greenland and Canada. “What the hell’s going on here? What president ever talks like that? That’s not who we are. We’re about freedom, democracy, opportunity, not about confiscation,” Biden said. When asked if Biden believes there is a greater threat to democracy now than any other time since World War II, the former president said, “Yes, I do because, I mean, look at, look at the number of European leaders in European countries. They’re wondering, well, what do I do now? What’s the best route for me to take? Can I rely on the United States? Are they going to be there?” Asked if Trump was behaving more like a king than a president, Biden said, “He’s not behaving like a Republican president.” Biden added that history will judge Trump’s time in office but he has not seen anything “triumphant” in his first 100 days in office.
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