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The American president promised to announce “major” sanctions against Russia on Friday in response to the death in prison of opponent Alexei Navalny.
Joe Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “Crazy bastard” during a meeting in San Francisco, California, with Democratic Party donors. “There is that crazy bastard Putin, but the existential threat to humanity is climate change.”launched the 81-year-old Democratic president, candidate for a second term, during a brief speech attended by a small group of journalists.
In English, Joe Biden used the three letters “SOB”a shortcut for “son of a bitch”insult translatable into French as “bastard”, “asshole”even “son of a bitch”. The American president had already, in the past, treated his Russian counterpart of “butcher” and of “war criminal”.
He promised to announce “major” sanctions against Russia on Friday in response to the death in prison of opponent Alexei Navalny.
Joe Biden had launched the same insult of “son of a bitch” to a journalist from Fox News, conservatives’ favorite channel, in January 2022, when he thought his microphone was off.