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“For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” Biden said of Russian President Vladimir Putin — an attention-grabbing line a source familiar with the situation said wasn’t included in the prepared remarks.
As some noted the comment sounded like a call for regime change in Russia, the White House quickly issued a statement saying otherwise.
“The President’s point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region. He was not discussing Putin’s power in Russia, or regime change,” said a White House official in a statement sent widely to reporters.
But the Kremlin was quick to seize on the remark. “That’s not for Biden to decide,” Putin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told Reuters. “The president of Russia is elected by Russians.” Russia has for years accused the U.S. and its allies of attempting to carry out regime change in its country.
It was one of several moments on his trip this week when the White House found itself looking to clarify Biden’s comments as administration officials work to carry out a carefully crafted strategy to put pressure on Putin to end the war without escalating the conflict beyond Ukraine’s borders.
Earlier in the day Saturday, while visiting a refugee center in Warsaw, Biden made news with another unscripted remark. When he was asked for his reaction to Putin’s actions in Ukraine, Biden told the reporter: “He’s a butcher.”
A day earlier, when speaking to U.S. troops stationed in Poland, Biden made remarks that seemed to suggest those troops would soon be going to Ukraine, even though he has said previously he will not send U.S. forces into the country.
“Look at how they’re stepping up. And you’re gonna see when you’re there, and some of you have been there, you’re gonna see,” Biden told the troops. “You’re gonna see women, young people, stand in the middle, in front of a damn tank, just saying ‘I’m not leaving. I’m holding my ground.’ They are incredible.”
When asked about the president’s comment then, a White House spokesperson told NBC News that “the President has been clear we are not sending U.S. troops to Ukraine and there is no change in that position.”
In Brussels earlier in the week, Biden contradicted past statements by Vice President Kamala Harris and other senior officials around the purpose of sanctions, saying they “never deter.”
Last month, Harris said “the purpose of the sanctions has always been, and continues to be, deterrence.” That same day, secretary of state Antony Blinken said “the purpose of the sanctions, in the first instance, is to try to deter Russia.”
Before heading off for his trip to Europe this week, Biden also contradicted his own administration over whether Putin was committing war crimes — broaching rhetorical ground his team had long avoided. When asked last week at the White House whether he was ready to call Putin a war criminal, Biden responded, “no.” He later came back, asked reporters to repeat the question, and said: “I think he is a war criminal.”
White House press secretary Jen Psaki says President Joe Biden was “speaking from his heart” when he described Putin that way, but that there is a legal process that will determine whether the Russian leader has technically committed war crimes.
This week, the State Department formally said Russian forces have committed war crimes in Ukraine, but didn’t specifically name Putin.
“US Biden says Putin ‘cannot remain in power”
So what is Mr. Joe Bidden (bidding) going to do? Nothing, Who is he to lecture Russians people? The US, the UK and their so-called western civilization have been challenged, and they bombed to bombed ‘abac/nil/naught/nought/nothing/zilch/zero’. We have informed the evils, devils and vampires and secret societies and cabals to remove their *rubbishes in South Africa, Kenya, here in South Sudan, we have have only *UN, NGOs and the united nations missions in South Sudan of Indians, Pakistanis, Nepalese, Bangladeshis, Sri Lankans, South Koreans, Rwandans, the Abeshas (so-called ethiopian) prostitutes, we are going to round UP the vermins/parasites/viruses/pest, Kill them and throw them into the Nile and wait for evils who brought them into our country. Our Waters is not going to Saudi Arabia, so-called israel. I am one of the boys who is again going bomb Eastern Jesruslam and give it Palestinian people Islam is not a religion, but a fantasy, but human beings have to believe in something, Tel Aviv, Ben Guron International airport, will be a parking lot. Suez Canal will, be closed by me, King Farhad international airport in Mecca and Medina will be a parking lots, Bole international airport in Abesha (so-called ethiopia) prostitute will be a parking lot, Abesh (so-called ethiopia), Djibouti, the US, and French legions are to be bombed into *Red sea with the land evils are currently on to Yemen*, our cloned so-called, our Kiirtoum/Khartoum, our cloned so-called arabs of North Sudan will be bombed to Yemen and Saudi Arabia, our port taken over by the owners, some low lives in Darfur are going to bombed back to West Africa, we want a report from Olusegan Obasanjo of Nigeria. Fulanis (platais) slaves were brought here into our country by the British as slaves in early 20th century to come and grow Sugarcane in Gezira—-irrigation scheme, then central Sudan, After the Muonyjiengs/Jiengs/Jenges/Jaangs/Dinkas of the Sudan and Egypt refused to work for the devils, the evils and vampires. Follow us idiots, The Nile is own by the owners. We are the masters of long shot war fairs>>>>