Julianne Smith, the United States Ambassador to the NATOtried to put Biden’s comments into context, saying they followed a day of talks by the Democratic president with Ukrainian refugees in Warsaw.
The Russian invasion – which has been going on for more than a month – has driven a quarter of Ukraine’s 44 million people from their homes.
“At that moment, I think it was a very human reactiona statement of principles from the stories I had heard that day,” Smith told CNN’s State of the Union.
“The United States does not have a regime change policy in Russia. It’s that clear,” he explained.
Secretary of State, Anthony Blinkentold a news conference in Jerusalem that any decision on Russia’s future leadership “would be up to the Russian people.”
Senator James Risch, the top Republican senator on the House Foreign Relations Committee, called Biden’s comments a “horrible blunder” and said he wished the president had adhered to protocol in his remarks during the visit to Poland.
“Most people who aren’t in foreign affairs don’t realize that those nine words that he spoke would cause the kind of commotion that they did,” he told CNN. “This is going to cause a big problem.”
Biden’s comments also did not go unnoticed by the French president, Emmanuel Macronwho warned on Sunday against an “escalation in words or actions” in Ukraine.
“I would not use these kinds of terms because I am still talking to President Putin,” said the French leader, who asked to avoid “the escalation of words and actions” to end the war.
Source: Ambito
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