Joe Biden Coopting the Allegation of Genocide in Ukraine for Cheap Political Points Is the Most Joe Biden Thing Ever – Opinion

According to the US presumptive president, Vladimir Putin was charged Tuesday with overseeing genocide programs in Ukraine.

President Biden on Tuesday for the first time accused Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, of perpetrating genocide on the Ukrainian people, but emphasized that was his personal view, not a legal determination.

Initial remarks were made in jest at Iowa’s bioethanol plant. In that speech, Biden announced plans to reduce rising gas prices. About halfway through the speech, he made reference to Mr. Putin and the war’s economic impact on Americans.

“Your family budget, your ability to fill up your tank, none of it should hinge on whether a dictator declares war and commits genocide half a world away,” Mr. Biden said. The statement was markedly different from earlier in the month when Biden said that Russian atrocities near Kyiv city, Ukraine, were war crimes. However, they did not reach the same level as genocide.

Later on Tuesday, as he was leaving Iowa, the president reiterated his assertions.

“Yes, I called it genocide. It has become clearer and clearer that Putin is just trying to wipe out the idea of even being able to be Ukrainian,” he said.

“We’ll let the lawyers decide internationally whether or not it qualifies,” he added, “but it sure seems that way to me.”

Genocide in international law is more than a mere slur. It has a precise definition.

Article II The present Convention defines genocide as any act with the intent of destroying a national or ethnical racial group.
(b) Inflicting serious bodily and mental injury to the members of the group.
(c) Inflicting deliberate harm on the conditions that lead to its destruction, either in total or in part.
(d. Imposing precautionary measures in order to avoid births within the same group
(e) Forced transfer of children from one group to another.

Every day, new evidence emerges of Russian atrocities against civilians living in Ukraine. (The Ukrainian Army liberates territory from Russian invaders, discovers murdered civilians), The Russian Torture Chamber is discovered in Liberated Ukraine Town, as Russia continues to do what it’s good at doing, and denies that its army committed war crimes in Ukraine in the most Russian way possible. This evidence can be found not only in the Ukrainian government as towns and cities are liberated from Russian terror but also from major media such the New York Times or Economist.

Even the Russians admit that thousands of civilians were killed. They just claim the killings are part of a Ukrainian “false flag” operation.

Others troubling aspects regarding the Russian occupation in Ukraine are becoming apparent. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians may have been deported to Russia.

These details are horrendous in the OSCE’s new report:
> a Ukrainian interpreter held in captivity for 9 days by Russian forces in an icy cellar, beaten w/ an iron bar & rifle butts, tortured w/ electricity.
> 500,000 Ukrainians forcibly deported to Russia & some put in filtration camps. pic.twitter.com/J2nRrbyti6

— Kylie Atwood (@kylieatwood) April 13, 2022

Evidence is mounting that children from Ukraine are being deported and taken away by their parents to be placed in Russian families. The Russian Duma has changed Russian adoption laws to make this possible.

Indeed, some of the public pronouncements by Putin and his inner circle read like they could have come from the Wannsee Conference (Kremlin Newspaper and a Putin Confidant Endorse Genocide as Russia’s Final Solution to the Ukraine Problem).

Biden could have made a significant statement if he had not lied about the effects of the Ukraine war on US gasoline, food prices, inflation and other factors. Unfortunately, yet again, Biden has imagined himself to be a “tough hombre” in some mental drama of his own making. Biden created problems within the EU as a result.

French President Emmanuel Macron declined Wednesday to call the actions of Russian troops in Ukraine “genocide,” saying that “an escalation of rhetoric” would not help stop the war. https://t.co/v3jkrwwl3h

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 13, 2022

Macron is a cuck and weenie, but he’s also the president of France (so that goes without saying), and at a time when the EU and NATO need to present a unified front, Biden’s comment was not helpful. It was also not useful in terms of negotiating a settlement for the Ukraine conflict, should it be possible.

Putin Says Ukraine Peace Talks ‘at Dead End,’ Vows to Pursue War

As many had assumed, Putin never took the peace talks seriously… https://t.co/K1yeISkjr0

— Bianna Golodryga (@biannagolodryga) April 12, 2022

The question remains, what does this mean for Iran’s fate? Biden has followed Obama’s diplomatic strategy of using Russia’s “good offices” with Iran to negotiate on our behalf. It isn’t easy to see how you can rationalize collaborating with a Genocidaire.

Biden in essence took the real possibility that Ukraine’s genocidal strategy was still in its early stages, and used that to his advantage in order to make a couple of minor political points.