Joe Biden said President Donald Trump’s pressure to give territory to Russia to Ukraine equals a “modern relief.”
In an interview with the first president with the BBC’s programme today, Biden said he was worried about US-European relations being eroded under Trump, and NATO member states reconsidered whether Washington is reliable.
“Europe will lose confidence in America’s certainty and American leadership,” Biden told the BBC.
Continental leaders said, “Can we rely on the United States? Are they there?”
The particular concern, Biden said, is the administration’s proposal to allow Russia to maintain its Ukrainian territory in an effort to attack the peace deal.
“It’s a modern temperament,” Biden said.
Biden said Trump’s creepy debate with Ukrainian President Voldy Mee Zelensky in his oval office in February was “under the United States.”
“I don’t understand how they don’t understand that there is strength in the alliance,” Biden said Monday of the Trump administration.
The term “reconciliation” refers to negotiations with former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain Prime Minister Adolf Hitler in the 1930s, and took over Germany’s neighbouring regions prior to World War II.
Chamberlain declared the outcome trade as a precursor to the “peace of our time” in September 1938.
Nazi Germany invaded Poland less than a year later, beginning to become the most devastating conflict Europe has ever witnessed.
In the campaign trajectory, Trump has long dismissed the conflict as both life and American taxpayer money, claiming that the war launched by a full-scale Russian invasion can be ended in just a few days.
However, during his tenure, his approach to negotiating a halt to combat was unstable.
Early in the presidency, he ordered a suspension of American aid to Ukraine before resuming it.
Last week, his administration signed an agreement with Kiev that allowed the United States to grant US access to Ukraine’s vast mineral resources. This suggests that the path of US aid to Ukraine can be cleared.
Trump also said Crimea, which was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014, would “stay in Russia,” clearly dismissing Ukraine’s basic request to return all territory seized since Russia first attacked.
Let me be a history judge
Biden also told the BBC that Trump’s statement on the acquisitions of Panama, Greenland and Canada is distrustful of the United States in Europe.
“Which president has spoken like that?” Biden said. “It’s not us. We’re about freedom, democracy, opportunity, not about forfeiture.”
He also said leaving the 2024 presidential election four months before election day in November 2024 was a “difficult decision” to allow former Vice President Kamala Harris to challenge Trump in his place.
However, he also argued that, as some critics suggested he should have done, he didn’t make a difference when he came back before.
Meanwhile, Biden asked about the celebration of Trump’s first 100-day inauguration victory.
“I can’t see anything that won,” he said.
