US President Joe Biden on Wednesday called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “crazy S.O.B.” -English expression that translates to “crazy H.D.P.” (acronym for son of a bitch) in Spanish – during a fundraising event in San Francisco, and warned that there is always the threat of a nuclear conflict, but that the existential threat to humanity continues to be the climate.
The Kremlin was quick to respond to Biden. This Thursday morning, Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov issued a statement saying that the disqualifying words used by the American president degrade his country and those who use that vocabulary, being “probably some kind of attempt to appear like a cowboy.” Hollywood. But I honestly don’t think it’s possible.”
“The use of such language against the head of another state by the president of the United States is unlikely to affect our president, President Putin,” the statement added. “But it debases those who use that vocabulary.”
Biden has a tendency to go off script during election fundraisers. In January 2022, he was caught using the same slur against a Fox News journalist working in the White House.
Biden’s verbal attacks against Putin have also intensified on the election campaign. Last week, the US president blamed Putin and “his thugs” for the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. “We don’t know exactly what happened, but there is no doubt that Nalvani’s death was a result of something that Putin and his thugs did,” Biden said at the White House after Russian prison officials announced that Navalny had died.
The war in Ukraine, the death of Navalny and claims by the United States that Russia plans to place a nuclear weapon in space have caused the biggest crisis in relations between Russia and the West since the Cold War. Some Russian and American diplomats say they can’t remember a time when relations between the world’s two largest nuclear powers were worse, including the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
Although this escalation of tension does not seem to interfere with the preference that Vladimir Putin has over Biden for the next US presidency; He considers him “more experienced and more predictable” than Donald Trump.
