A Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman said on Friday that the comment of Joe Biden, the President of the United States, in which he called support for Israel and Ukraine an “investment” shows that the US benefits from proxy wars rather than fights for ideas.
Biden said on Thursday that supporting the two Washington allies was “a smart investment that’s going to pay dividends for American security for generations”, as he sought to rally support for new aid packages.
Maria Zakharova, the Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman, said on the Telegram messaging app that Biden’s comments betray a cynical approach.
“They used to call it ‘fighting for freedom and democracy’,” she said. “Now it turns out it is just calculations. It has always been that way, they just fooled the world using values for which Washington has never really stood.”
“Nothing personal, just business,” she said, using a comment made prominent in the “Godfather” movie to sum up what she said was the true US stance on conflicts abroad.
Zakharova said, “Wars have traditionally been ‘smart investments’ for the United States as they did not take place on the American soil and they do not care about costs borne by others.”
