(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Since President Joe Biden made a dangerous unscripted statement saying Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannon remain in power,” his team has been rushing to clarify his statement, The Daily Wire reported.
“A dictator, bent on rebuilding an empire, will never erase the people’s love for liberty,” Biden said at the Royal Castle in Warsaw. “Ukraine will never be a victory for Russia, for free people refuse to live in a world of hopelessness and darkness.
“For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.”
The White House quickly released a statement addressing the President’s final line, saying “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.”
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz also made a statement, saying removal of President Putin was “not the aim of NATO, and also not that of the American president.”
When asked whether Biden made a dangerous mistake with his comment, Scholz said no and commented: “he said what he said.”
Secretary of State Antony Blinken also clarified Biden’s statements, insisting he was not discussing a regime change.
Former Director of the CIA under President Barak Obama, Michael Morell, slammed Biden for this remark:
“So I think his comment that Putin had to go was an unforced error,” Morrell told CBS News.
“It makes it—it strengthens Putin at home, makes it difficult for any domestic opposition to coalesce together. And no Russian citizen, none, wants to be told by the leader of Russia’s main enemy about what their leadership can look like and not.
“The broader framing I worry about as well. I think we should frame this narrowly, Russia out of Ukraine and impose so much pain on this man that he never thinks about doing this again. I think framing it as democracy versus autocracy drives the Chinese closer to the Russians and makes it difficult for some of our own allies who are autocrats to stand with us.”
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