IN THE NEWS: PRESIDENT BIDEN'S PUTIN REMARKS, QUICKLY WALKED BACK -- MOMENTS LATER -- CONFUSION, CONCERN

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President Biden’s Putin speech in Poland is a catastrophe

He came, he saw, he confused. 

Joe Biden’s call-to-arms speech in Poland was long on soaring rhetoric about the virtues of democracy but woefully short on what more the West will do to help Ukraine defeat the Russian invasion. But by the time he got to the finish, most of that was forgotten. 

What mattered most and what will be remembered for a long time was a single line the president of the United States said about the president of Russia: “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.” 

In the context of the speech and the slaughter of Ukrainian civilians, it’s impossible to understand that line as anything other than a call for regime change, a move that would dramatically raise the stakes with Russia at a time when Biden has been at pains to lower them. 

It also raises the question of whether toppling Putin, a subject never before mentioned by the White House, is suddenly the new policy of the United States and NATO. 

Ah, no. READ MORE AT MICHAEL GOODWIN HERE.

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Biden Says Putin ‘Cannot Remain in Power,’ White House Walks It Back Moments Later...MORE AT https://www.nationalreview.com/news/biden-says-putin-cannot-remain-in-power-in-speech-on-ukraine/

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Blinken Says U.S. Has No ‘Strategy of Regime Change in Russia’ after Biden Says Putin ‘Cannot Remain in Power’ By BRITTANY BERNSTEIN; read more at https://www.nationalreview.com/news/blinken-clarifies-u-s-has-no-strategy-of-regime-change-in-russia-after-biden-says-putin-cannot-remain-in-power