Thursday, March 28

Biden says invading Ukraine would be ‘disastrous’ for Russia



The president of United States, Joe Biden once again warned his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on Wednesday that a hypothetical “invasion” of Ukraine would be “disastrous” for Russia and that in case of continuing to delve into the current crisis, a series of sanctions “never” seen before by Moscow would be applied. “If they commit an invasion, they are going to pay, their banks will not be able to negotiate in dollars,” Biden said during a press conference held this Wednesday at the White House on the occasion of his first year as head of the United States.

Biden has pointed out that while he does not believe that Putin is willing to start “a full-fledged war”, he does see the Russian president pressuring the United States and its NATO partners as much as possible in this new crisis. “It is trying to find its place in the world between China and the West,” he said. “The only thing I am sure of is that this decision is totally, uniquely and completely yours. No one else is going to make that decision,” he said, referring to the Russian president, who is still unaware, he said, of the implications of this new escalation of tensions. “He will pay a high price … and I think he will regret it,” Biden said.

In this sense, he explained that the series of meetings that the diplomatic delegations from Washington and Moscow have held have been of no use because “the impression” that the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, or the National Security Adviser, has transmitted to him, Jake Sullivan, is that the Russian representatives do not know the intentions of Putin. “Russia will be held accountable if it invades Ukraine, Biden has insisted before the questions of the journalists, to whom he has told them that if Moscow undertakes what “it is capable of doing” with the force it has accumulated on the border, “it will be a disaster” for them.

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In this sense, he has clarified that the response of the United States and its partners will depend on the type of challenge that Russia may pose, for this reason he has stressed the need for all NATO allies “to achieve total unity” when it comes to knowing how to respond to any eventuality. “It’s very important that we keep everyone in NATO on the same page. That’s what I spend a lot of time doing and there are differences. There are differences in what countries are willing to do, depending on what happens,” he explained.

However, Biden, according to the “very frank” conversations he has had with Putin since he arrived at the White House, has assured that “there is no problem” to be able to understand each other and has given as an example Washington’s willingness to negotiate the Russian proposal to limit NATO’s arsenal in Ukraine. However, the US president has ruled out for the moment sitting down to negotiate for another of Moscow’s requests, the non-inclusion of Ukraine in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a process, he has advanced, that “it is not very likely” that occurs “in the short term”. “The probability of Ukraine joining NATO in the short term is not very likely since they have to work much more in terms of democracy and some other things that are happening there,” he said.


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