{"id":18886,"date":"2022-03-26T18:17:57","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T18:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=18886"},"modified":"2022-03-26T18:17:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T18:17:57","slug":"you-the-russian-people-are-not-our-enemy-biden-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/03\/26\/you-the-russian-people-are-not-our-enemy-biden-says\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;You the Russian people are not our enemy,&#8217; Biden says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gs-u-mb+ gel-body-copy qa-post-body\" data-reactid=\".1soj5hxu6n6.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-623f51514f71af55b4615bf4.0.6\">\n<div class=\"lx-stream-post-body\" data-reactid=\".1soj5hxu6n6.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-623f51514f71af55b4615bf4.0.6.0\">\n<p data-reactid=\".1soj5hxu6n6.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-623f51514f71af55b4615bf4.0.6.0.0:$post_1\">Next, Joe Biden addresses the Russian people, saying he&#8217;s worked with Russian leaders for decades, since the height of the Cold War.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".1soj5hxu6n6.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-623f51514f71af55b4615bf4.0.6.0.0:$post_2\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve always spoken directly and honestly to you the Russian people,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".1soj5hxu6n6.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-623f51514f71af55b4615bf4.0.6.0.0:$post_3\">&#8220;Let me say this, if you&#8217;re able to listen. You the Russian people are not our enemy.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".1soj5hxu6n6.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-623f51514f71af55b4615bf4.0.6.0.0:$post_4\">&#8220;I refuse to believe you welcome the killing of innocent children and grandparents.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".1soj5hxu6n6.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-623f51514f71af55b4615bf4.0.6.0.0:$post_5\">&#8220;Or that you accept hospitals, schools, maternity wards for God&#8217;s sake, being pummelled with Russian missiles and bombs.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".1soj5hxu6n6.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-623f51514f71af55b4615bf4.0.6.0.0:$post_6\">&#8220;Or cities being surrounded so that civilians cannot flee, supplies cut off and attempting to starve Ukrainians into submission.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".1soj5hxu6n6.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-623f51514f71af55b4615bf4.0.6.0.0:$post_7\">&#8220;Millions of families are being driven from their homes, including half of all Ukraine&#8217;s children.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".1soj5hxu6n6.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-623f51514f71af55b4615bf4.0.6.0.0:$post_8\">&#8220;These are not the actions of a great nation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".1soj5hxu6n6.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-623f51514f71af55b4615bf4.0.6.0.0:$post_9\">He closes his speech with a reference to Vladimir Putin &#8211; &#8220;For God&#8217;s sake, this man cannot remain in power.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer class=\"lx-stream-post__footer\" data-reactid=\".1soj5hxu6n6.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-623f51514f71af55b4615bf4.0.7\">\n<div class=\"lx-stream-post__footer-share\" data-reactid=\".1soj5hxu6n6.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-623f51514f71af55b4615bf4.0.7.1\">\n<div class=\"gs-u-mb+ gel-body-copy qa-post-body\" data-reactid=\".1soj5hxu6n6.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-623f4eae5fbc655faa01f077.0.6\">\n<div class=\"lx-stream-post-body\" data-reactid=\".1soj5hxu6n6.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-623f4eae5fbc655faa01f077.0.6.0\">\n<p data-reactid=\".1soj5hxu6n6.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-623f4eae5fbc655faa01f077.0.6.0.0:$post_1\">&#8220;My message to the people of Ukraine&#8230; we stand with you, period,&#8221; President Biden says during his speech in Warsaw, a line greeted by cheers.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".1soj5hxu6n6.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-623f4eae5fbc655faa01f077.0.6.0.0:$post_2\">&#8220;Today&#8217;s fighting in Kyiv, Mariupol and Kharkiv are the latest battles in a long struggle,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".1soj5hxu6n6.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-623f4eae5fbc655faa01f077.0.6.0.0:$post_3\">&#8220;Hungary in 1956, Poland in 1956 and then again in 1981, Czechoslovakia in 1968 &#8211; Soviet tanks crushed democratic uprisings but the resistance continued until finally in 1989, the Berlin Wall and all the walls of Soviet domination, they fell and the people prevailed.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".1soj5hxu6n6.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-623f4eae5fbc655faa01f077.0.6.0.0:$post_4\">&#8220;The battle for democracy could not conclude and did not conclude with the end of the Cold War.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".1soj5hxu6n6.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-623f4eae5fbc655faa01f077.0.6.0.0:$post_5\">&#8220;Over the last 30 years the forces of autocracy have revived all across the globe. Its hallmarks are familiar ones. Contempt for the rule of law, contempt for democratic freedom, contempt for the truth itself.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".1soj5hxu6n6.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-623f4eae5fbc655faa01f077.0.6.0.0:$post_6\">&#8220;Today, Russia has strangled democracy and has sought to do so elsewhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".1soj5hxu6n6.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-623f4eae5fbc655faa01f077.0.6.0.0:$post_7\">Biden says it is obscene that Vladimir Putin has lied by saying he is trying to de-Nazify Ukraine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer class=\"lx-stream-post__footer\" data-reactid=\".1soj5hxu6n6.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-623f4eae5fbc655faa01f077.0.7\">\n<div class=\"lx-stream-post__footer-share\" data-reactid=\".1soj5hxu6n6.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-623f4eae5fbc655faa01f077.0.7.1\">source: bbc<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next, Joe Biden addresses the Russian people, saying he&#8217;s worked with Russian leaders for decades, since the height of the Cold War. &#8220;I&#8217;ve always spoken directly and honestly to you the Russian people,&#8221; he says. &#8220;Let me say this, if you&#8217;re able to listen. 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