Biden on Vladimir Putin in 2020: “We’re Not Going to Take Any of His Stuff”

Russia was an inflection point Biden was happy to highlight during the presidential campaign. “I’ve gone head-to-head with Putin and made it clear to him we’re not going to take any of his stuff,” Biden said during the first 2020 presidential debate. About his opponent, former President Trump, Biden said “He’s Putin’s puppy.”

Before that, when the Washington Post reported in June of 2020 that Russia was offering bounties to Taliban-linked militants to kill U.S. and coalition military personnel in Afghanistan, Biden slammed Trump as a Russian stooge.