India ‘somewhat shaky’ in dealing with Putin’s aggression: Joe Biden

TIL Desk/World/Washington/ United States President Joe Biden has said that India is being “somewhat shaky” in terms of showing support against the Russian invasion of Ukraine as he asserted that most of the friends and allies of America have presented a united front in terms of dealing with Vladimir Putin’s “aggression”. On February 24, Russian forces launched military operations in Ukraine, three days after Moscow recognised Ukraine’s breakaway regions — Donetsk and Luhansk — as independent entities.

“The one thing I’m confident, knowing Putin fairly well — as well as, I guess, another leader could know one another — is that he was counting on being able to split NATO. He never thought NATO would stay resolved – stay totally, thoroughly united. And I can assure you, NATO has never been stronger or more united in its entire history than it is today, in large part, because of Vladimir Putin,” Biden told a business roundtable of CEOs on Monday.

“But in response to his aggression, there has been — he’s pretty — we presented a united front throughout NATO and in the Pacific. The QUAD is, with the possible exception of India being somewhat shaky on some of this. But Japan has been extremely strong, so has Australia, in terms of dealing with Putin’s aggression,” he said.