Joe Biden’s criticism of Barack Obama revealed by Bob Woodward

In it, Bob Woodward makes a number of explosive revelations about what President Joe Biden is alleged to have said in private about Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu… but one name in particular catches the eye: Biden is said to have voiced harsh criticism of his former running mate, Barack Obama.

According to CNN, which obtained a copy of the book War, written by the famous investigative journalist who revealed the Watergate scandal, Joe Biden, while in the midst of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia following the violent invasion orchestrated by Vladimir Putin on February 24, 2022, reportedly expressed harsh criticism of a former decision by Barack Obama dating back to 2014, during the invasion of Crimea.

Russia’s invasion of Crimea began in February 2014, when Russian forces took control of the peninsula. This action was widely condemned by the international community, which imposed sanctions on Moscow, but without further measures.

Crimea was quickly annexed in March, and Joe Biden now blames then-President Barack Obama for doing nothing to prevent this seizure of Ukrainian territory by Vladimir Putin.

In the face of the devastation left by the Russian attack on Ukrainian territory, Joe Biden has criticized former President Barack Obama’s handling of Vladimir Putin’s 2014 invasion of Crimea, claiming that Obama never took Putin seriously as a real threat.

“Barack never took Putin seriously,” he reportedly said.

According to CNN, Woodward’s book also reveals that Joe Biden wanted to make it perfectly clear from the very first days of his presidency that Kamala Harris was certainly the qualified candidate ready to replace him at any moment.

Biden acted accordingly when he decided to withdraw from the 2024 elections, disappointed that he hadn’t sensed that Obama wanted him to take over, even though Biden himself was vice-president at the time.

In his book, Woodward reveals that Anthony Blinken, the U.S. Secretary of State, said of Kamala Harris’s endorsement that “Biden felt like he didn’t get that from President Obama in 2016.”

Blinken added: “He was disappointed. He felt that, as vice president, this was the normal and natural order of things.”