WASHINGTON, July 12, 2024 (TBINN)
United States’ President Joe Biden has said that he has “no good reason” to talk to Vladimir Putin at the moment unless the Russian leader changes his behaviour.
The 81-year-old president made these remarks in a highly-anticipated solo press conference at the end of N.A.T.O. Summit in Washington.
“I have no good reason to talk to Putin right now. There’s not much that he is prepared to do in terms of accommodating any change in his behaviour, but there isn’t any world leader I’m not prepared to deal with,” Biden told reporters when asked if he is ready to talk to Putin.
“But I understand your generic point is, is Putin ready to talk? I’m not ready to talk to Putin unless Putin’s ready to change his behaviour and the idea — look, Putin’s got a problem,” Biden said, dismissing concerns about his health despite a growing list of Democratic leaders urging him to step aside from the 2024 presidential election following last month’s disastrous debate with his Republican rival, Donald Trump.
“First of all, in this war that he supposedly has won, and by the way, I think, don’t hold me to the exact number, but I think that Russia had 17.3 per cent of Ukraine that they’ve conquered, now it’s 17.4. I mean, in terms of percentage of territory,” Joe said.
“They’ve not been very successful. They’ve caused horrible damage and loss of life, but they’ve also lost over 350,000 troops, military, killed or wounded. They have over a million people, particularly young people with technical capability leaving Russia because they see no future there. They’ve got a problem,” Joe Biden said.
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