BIDEN: ‘SHOULD MAKE YOUR BLOOD RUN COLD’: In his address to the United Nations General Assembly Wednesday, President Joe Biden chastised Russian President Vladimir Putin for “reckless,” “overt nuclear threats against Europe,” and called Putin’s efforts to annex parts of Ukraine through “sham referenda,” “an extremely significant violation of the U.N. charter.”
“This world should see these outrageous acts for what they are. Putin claims he had to act because Russia was threatened. But no one threatened Russia, and no one other than Russia sought conflict,” Biden said. “This war is about extinguishing Ukraine’s right to exist as a state, plain and simple, and Ukraine’s right to exist as a people. Whoever you are, wherever you live, whatever you believe, that should not — that should make your blood run cold.”
