{"id":90715,"date":"2021-03-24T05:52:52","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T05:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/?p=114738"},"modified":"2021-03-24T05:52:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T05:52:52","slug":"putins-killer-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/03\/24\/putins-killer-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin\u2019s Killer Response"},"content":{"rendered":"
US President Joe Biden\u2019s attempted slander against Russian leader Vladimir Putin \u2013 calling him a \u201ckiller\u201d \u2013 was not only disgraceful. It was also very stupid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Such foul-mouth conduct betrays the American leader as having no class whatsoever. It demeans oneself and it tarnishes the supposed prestige of his office as the world\u2019s self-declared most powerful man.<\/p>\n
But the verbal jab also set up Biden for a swift body slam by the judo master Putin.<\/p>\n
The Russian president gave a calm and magnanimous response to the American counterpart\u2019s comment in an ABC News interview last week in which Biden agreed to a (ludicrous) characterization of Putin as a \u201ckiller\u201d. In reply, Putin said he sincerely wished<\/a> Biden \u201cgood health\u201d.<\/p>\n Such a charitable response not only highlights the American president\u2019s crudeness and mean spirit. It gives the Russian leader the moral high ground. The whole world, including many Americans, were able to compare the two men and see right away which one has the superior calibre of culture and intellect.<\/p>\n Secondly, without resorting to vulgar vocabulary, Putin was able to turn the tables on Biden by exposing him and many of his predecessors as the real killers. By saying the remark was a form of projection and a case of looking in the mirror at oneself, Putin was able to review the entire sordid, genocidal history of the United States, including the destruction of native people and the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan. That vile legacy of mass violence and state terrorism includes Joe Biden who as a senator and former vice president has been instrumental in launching numerous criminal wars which have resulted in millions of people being killed and whole nations demolished. Just last month, too, Biden ordered deadly airstrikes on Syria<\/a> \u2013 his first act of murder as president only four weeks after his inauguration. Biden accusing others of being a killer is grotesque.<\/p>\n