On February 22, at a closed fundraising in San Francisco, the U.S. President talked about his Russian colleague as follows.
“We have craze S.O.B., that guy Putin and others, and we always have to worry about nuclear conflict, but the existential threat to humanity is climate,” CNN quotes Biden.
Following the news, Belarussian TV presenter and political scientist Vadim Elfimov said on the air of Radio Minsk that such expressions could be justified by a psychotic disorder.
“Again he attacked Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin with simply vulgar abuse. This is some kind of, you know, hooligan and “ramolic” (in Russian — a weak person who has fallen into dementia). If we take, for example, mental illness, Tourette's syndrome — this is at least some kind of explanation. <…> I want to say, gentlemen, citizens of the United States, aren’t you ashamed that you have such a president? It's just a shame,” he stated.
Aleksandr Lukashenko also does not mince his words, but political scientist Elfimov has never criticized him for this. For example, last year Lukashenko insulted European Union Foreign Minister Josep Borrell: “This is a simply bad person.”
Then, Lukashenko let loose on the President of Ukraine. “President Zelensky is just a nit. Just a nit,” Lukashenko said in March 2023.
He also spoke impartially about former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych: “Unfortunately, the current leadership of Ukraine has enough lice.”
Lukashenko even called the former head of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, a “goat”.
Rats, sheep, drug addicts, prostitutes, morons and scum, pot-bellied bourgeois, jobless criminals, stoned, drunk, shabby — this is just an incomplete list of Aleksandr Lukashenko’s offensive statements addressed to people who disagree with his policies.