A senior US official on Tuesday denounced the “absurdity” of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s accusations that the Western threat against Russia justified the invasion of Ukraine.
“No one is attacking Russia. There is a kind of absurdity in the idea that Russia was under some form of military threat from Ukraine or anyone else,” White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters.
Advancing Joe Biden’s speech, scheduled for 4:30 p.m. this Tuesday, at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Sullivan said that “[o Presidente] I would not draw up any kind of plan to end the war diplomatically.”
Instead, he will focus on the broader lesson to be learned from the war in Ukraine in what he sees as a “turning point” in a global struggle between democracies and autocratic regimes.
“So his comments will talk specifically about the conflict in Ukraine, but of course he will also talk about the broader struggle between (on the one hand) the aggressors who are trying to destroy fundamental principles and (on the other hand) the democracies coming together to try to apply them,” he said.
In Warsaw and Moscow, Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin delivered dueling speeches on Tuesday, presenting two radically opposed views on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a day after the US president’s surprise visit to Kiev.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the West of wanting to impose a “strategic defeat” on Ukraine and finish off the country “once and for all”.
“Western elites make no secret of their goal: to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia, that is, to finish us off once and for all,” he said, in a State of the Union address to both houses of Parliament three days earlier. the first anniversary of the offensive on Ukraine.
“The responsibility for fomenting the Ukrainian conflict and its victims (…) falls entirely on the Western elites,” said the Russian president, repeating his thesis that the West supports neo-Nazi forces in Ukraine to consolidate a fight against war . fight.-Russian state.
The speech, Putin’s first State of the Nation address in nearly two years, comes three days before the one-year anniversary of Russia’s military offensive in Ukraine, which began in the early hours of February 24, 2022.
Source: TSF
