Russian President Vladimir Putin has revealed that he prefers US President Joe Biden to his predecessor Donald Trump in the November presidential race.
Speaking to Pavel Zarubin on Wednesday, February 14, Putin said he would want Biden to win the election but was willing to work with any president elected by the American voters.
Putin was asked by the interviewer Pavel Zarubin who was “better for Russia.”
“Biden, he is a more experienced, predictable person, a politician of the old school. But we will work with any U.S. president who the American people have confidence in,” Putin replied.
Despite critiquing Biden’s mental fitness, Putin recounted their meeting in Switzerland stating that the American President is in good health.
“When I met with Biden in Switzerland, people were already saying he wasn’t up to it. I didn’t see anything of the kind. He was peeping his paper. I honestly peeped mine,” said Putin.
“But the fact that he got out of a helicopter somewhere, hit his head. But who hasn’t hit their head somewhere?” he asked.
Russia-Ukraine War
The President said that Russia should have started active actions in Ukraine earlier, but it tried for a long time to resolve the conflict peacefully and relied on the honesty of its opponents.
“We were and are concerned about the possibility of Ukraine being drawn into NATO, since this threatens our security,” Putin said.
Putin-Ceasefire was a Con Game
Putin also alleged that the Minsk agreements, a ceasefire protocol signed by Ukraine and Russia in 2015, was never meant to be kept but used “to buy time to load Ukraine with additional weapons.
“It turned out later that we were being deceived in this regard, because both the former German chancellor and the former president of France admitted straightforwardly in the public that they never planned to fulfill the agreements. Instead, they were buying time to deliver more weapons to the Kiev regime, which is exactly what they did,” the Russian leader said.
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Boris Johson Interference
Putin claimed that former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s trip to Kiev in 2022 to derail peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine was at the expense of the United States.
“Former Prime Minister Mr. Johnson could not have traveled (to Ukraine) on his own personal initiative without consulting Washington on the matter. Probably, not only were there such consultations, but I think he simply went on the business trip at the expense of the US administration. They paid him travel expenses for this,” Putin highlighted.
In November 2023, David Arakhamia, the head of Ukraine’s ruling Servant of the People party’s faction in parliament and the former chief negotiator with Russia, said Boris Johnson talked Kiev out of signing an agreement with Moscow to end the conflict in the spring of 2022.
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US Elections
US citizens will head to the polls on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, to elect a president and vice president for a term of four years.
Biden is running for reelection against Trump who is seeking a comeback.
If both Biden and Trump are nominated by their respective parties, it would mark the first presidential rematch since 1956.
The winner of this election is scheduled to be inaugurated on January 20, 2025.
