US President Joe Biden’s comments that he could not keep Russian President Vladimir Putin in power were an expression of moral outrage and did not mean a change in US policy. President Biden said he had no intention of retracting his comments.
“I’m expressing the moral anger I feel at the way Putin behaved and his behavior,” Biden said after addressing the budget for fiscal 2023 at the White House on the 28th (local time). I was just stating the simple fact that it is completely unacceptable.” “I am not expressing policy change either then or now,” he said. “I am not going to withdraw that statement,” Biden said. I will not apologize,” he added.
President Biden said in Warsaw on the 26th that “this man must no longer be in power” against Putin. There was an interpretation that this remark was a sign of a regime change in Russia, and the ripples grew. The Kremlin said: “It is not for Biden to decide. It is only the choice of the people of the Russian Federation,” and the White House also began to evolve, saying that President Biden’s remarks did not imply a regime change, but that Putin had no authority to invade Ukraine.
