Bloomberg columnist accused Biden of not being tough enough on Putin

US President Joe Biden has failed to live up to voters' expectations of a tougher stance on Russian President Vladimir Putin than he has made his rule a "gift" to him, BLOOMBERG columnist Eli Lake said.

The journalist said that the US Democratic Party posed as "anti-Russian hawks", but Biden's actions testify to the political crisis of the Democrats.

Before the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Joe Biden accused his predecessor Donald Trump of "toadying Putin" and that his presidency was a gift to a Russian colleague, Lake said. However, he himself has not yet shown a tough position.

The observer noted that the administration of the American president refuses to impose sanctions against RUSSIA against the backdrop of reports of an “invasion” of Ukraine and agrees to do this only after the introduction of troops. Biden invited Putin to the NATO summit to complain about the actions of the alliance. In addition, the American president does not make a decision on granting the unrecognized DPR and LPR special political status until “the withdrawal of illegal Russian armed groups created during the invasion of Ukraine in 2014.”