The world has “isolated” Vladimir Putin for sending his Russian forces across the border into Ukraine, US President Joe Biden said on Tuesday, stressing that devastating sanctions will “undermine” Russia’s economy and weaken the military.
At another point in his speech, Joe Biden called President Vladimir Putin a “Russian dictator” during the State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday, a week after Moscow invaded Ukraine.
“A Russian dictator, invading a foreign country, has costs all over the world,” Biden said. But “in the battle between democracy and autocracy, democracies are rising to the occasion and the world is clearly choosing the side of peace and security,” he said.
“Putin is now more isolated from the world than ever before,” Biden told lawmakers in his first State of the Union address, adding that he “has no idea what’s coming” in terms of economic sanctions. The president also attacked Putin’s environment, the oligarchs and the “corrupt leaders” which he said have embezzled billions of dollars, saying they will seize “his yachts, his luxury apartments, his private planes.”
Ovation to the Ukrainian people
US congressmen gave a standing ovation to the Ukrainian people on Tuesday during President Joe Biden’s speech.
“Please stand up if you can and show that yes, we, the United States of America, stand with the Ukrainian people.”Biden said in his speech to Congress a week after Russia invaded Ukraine.
Biden said his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, may “surround Kiev with tanks, but he will never win the hearts and souls of the Ukrainian people.”
“It will never extinguish your love of freedom, it will never weaken the resolve of the free world,” Biden said in his first State of the Union address. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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