Biden accuses Putin of ‘genocide’ for the first time
It was not a blunder: Joe Biden confirmed on Tuesday that he accused his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, of perpetrating a “genocide” in Ukraine, a few hours after having used this word for the first time to describe the situation in the country invaded by Moscow. “Yes, I called it a genocide”replied the American president to journalists during a trip to Iowa.
Until then, the American administration had not pronounced this word, used by the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky. ‘It’s increasingly clear that Putin is simply trying to erase the very idea of being a Ukrainian’, he added. Joe Biden claimed that if “lawyers, at the international level”decided on the qualification of genocide, ” for [lui]it looks like it ».
Affirming that the “evidence was piling up” about the “Horrible things the Russians did in Ukraine”the Democrat predicted that the world “would find out even more about the devastation”. A few hours earlier, during a speech devoted to the fight against inflation, Mr. Biden had already mentioned the term “genocide”. “Your family’s budget, your ability to fill your gas tank, none of that should depend on a dictator declaring war and committing genocide on the other side of the world.”he had said. ‘Putin’s invasion of Ukraine drove up gas and food prices worldwide’said the Democratic president.
The rise in consumer prices in March reached its fastest pace since December 1981, at 8.5% over one year, according to the consumer price index published Tuesday by the Labor Department.