Biden Opens SOTU Speech Calling Out Russia’s ‘Lies’: ‘The Free World Is Holding Him Accountable’
President Joe Biden opened his State of the Union speech by suggesting President Vladimir Putin is “now isolated from the world more than he has ever been.” During Biden’s speech Tuesday evening, the president called…
President Joe Biden opened his State of the Union speech by suggesting President Vladimir Putin is “now isolated from the world more than he has ever been.”
During Biden’s speech Tuesday evening, the president called Putin’s attack on Ukraine “premeditated and totally unprovoked,” adding, “He rejected repeated efforts at diplomacy.”
Biden suggested Putin believed “the West and NATO wouldn’t respond. And he thought he could divide us at home. … Putin was wrong. We are ready. We are united and that’s what we did. We stayed united. We prepared.”
He continued, “We prepared extensively and carefully. We spent months building a coalition of other freedom-loving nations from Europe and the Americas to Asia and Africa to confront Putin.”
Biden went on to claim he spent “countless hours unifying our European allies. We shared with the world in advance what we knew Putin was planning and precisely how he would try to falsely and justify his aggression.”
He added, “We countered Russia’s lies with truth. And now that he has acted the free world is holding him accountable.”