{"id":17353,"date":"2023-02-28T14:32:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T10:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/?p=17353"},"modified":"2023-04-04T08:21:43","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T04:21:43","slug":"ex-kremlin-advisor-says-biden-started-ukraine-war-because-he-hates-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/ex-kremlin-advisor-says-biden-started-ukraine-war-because-he-hates-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Kremlin Advisor Says Biden Started Ukraine War Because He &#8216;Hates&#8217; Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BY\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/authors\/brendan-cole\">BRENDAN COLE\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Aformer adviser to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/vladimir-putin\">Vladimir Putin<\/a>\u00a0has blamed the war in Ukraine on comments\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a>\u00a0made to the Russian president 13 years ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Political analyst Sergei Markov made the remarks during a discussion on the YouTube show&nbsp;<em>Ostorozhno Sobchak<\/em>&nbsp;(<em>Beware Sobchak<\/em>), which is hosted by journalist and TV personality Ksenia Sobchak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a clip, tweeted by Ukrainian internal affairs adviser Anton Gerashchenko, the Russian opposition activist Marina Litvinovich described how a &#8220;huge number of people&#8221; were involved in the war, including Ukrainian civilians, military, and &#8220;unborn children.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Markov interrupted to say &#8220;the war must be stopped immediately,&#8221; and that &#8220;Joe Biden is the real guilty party in starting this war.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This is a personal war of Joe Biden who hates Putin,&#8221; according to Markov, because when Biden &#8220;came here in 2010, he said, &#8216;Vladimir Vladimirovich, we advise you not to run in the elections.'&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After serving the two consecutive presidential terms allowed under the Russian constitution at the time, Putin stood aside in 2008, paving the way for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/dmitry-medvedev\">Dmitry Medvedev<\/a>&nbsp;to become the head of state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After four years as prime minister, Putin became president again in 2012. The constitution has since been amended to allow Putin to potentially remain as president until 2036.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Markov, when Biden was the vice president under&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/barack-obama\">Barack Obama<\/a>, he told Putin &#8220;&#8216;for the third term, give Dmitry Anatolyevich (Medvedev),'&#8221; the presidency. Markov added that Putin had &#8220;told him off&#8221; but Biden &#8220;started hating him.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sharing the clip of Markov&#8217;s remarks, Gerashchenko wrote, &#8220;Russian propagandist says the war in Ukraine is Joe Biden&#8217;s fault\u2014because, according to the propagandist, Biden hates Putin for not following his advice in 2010.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Geopolitics, Russian propaganda style. And nothing is ever their fault,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Markov is a professor of political science at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. This week, he suggested that Russia had, in essence, allowed Biden&#8217;s surprise visit to Kyiv to meet his Ukrainian counterpart,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/volodymyr-zelensky\">Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/putin-allowed-biden-visit-kyiv-russia-civilized-state-tv-1782521\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">He told the Russia 1 channel<\/a>&nbsp;that Biden had received &#8220;security guarantees&#8221; from Moscow &#8220;because we keep our word and are on the side of good and of civilization.&#8221; During his visit to Kyiv, Biden reaffirmed U.S. commitment to providing Ukraine with military and financial aid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Biden told&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/abc\">ABC<\/a>&nbsp;News that he was ruling out &#8220;for now&#8221; the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/biden-rejects-zelenskys-pleas-coveted-f-16-fighter-jets-1777683\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">U.S. provision of F-16 jets to Ukraine<\/a>, which Kyiv has been calling for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that Zelensky &#8220;needs tanks, he needs artillery, he needs air defense, including another HIMARS.&#8221; Ukraine has been calling for more weapons, like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/nato\">NATO<\/a>\u00a0jets, to fight Russian aggression. Biden told the news network that &#8220;there is no basis upon which there is a rationale,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/retired-air-force-colonel-lays-out-affordable-plan-get-ukraine-f-16s-1783189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to our military now, to provide F-16s<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/\">https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY\u00a0BRENDAN COLE\u00a0 Aformer adviser to\u00a0Vladimir Putin\u00a0has blamed the war in Ukraine on comments\u00a0Joe Biden\u00a0made to the Russian president 13 years ago. Political analyst Sergei Markov made the remarks during a discussion on the YouTube show&nbsp;Ostorozhno Sobchak&nbsp;(Beware Sobchak), which is hosted by journalist and TV personality Ksenia Sobchak. 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