Biden said today that Putin “cannot remain in power” after invading Ukraine. The White House quickly walked it back and said the president wasn’t calling for regime change.
WARSAW, Poland — President Joe Biden said Saturday that Russian leader Vladimir Putin cannot remain in power after launching his brutal invasion of Ukraine — a closing, off-the-cuff message issued in the final moments of the president’s tour of Europe that the White House swiftly walked back.
Biden used the evening speech in Poland’s capital to rally American allies to be “clear-eyed” in a “battle between democracy and autocracy, between liberty and repression” that he warned requires vigilance and wouldn’t end soon. Richard Haass, the Council on Foreign Relations president, said Biden’s comments could reinforce Putin’s fears or belief that America is out to oust him from leadership and undermine an authoritarian Russia.
Even before Biden’s misstatement, the trip laid bare America’s challenges and contradictions around Russia’s unprovoked war. Biden was greeted as the leader of the free world — even describing himself as such at the summit in NATO. Yet he’s struggled to translate his diplomatic momentum abroad with Americans back home. And pressure continues from officials in Kyiv who argue the results of the West’s collective actions have so far fallen short.
Biden’s late decision to go to Europe was motivated in part by fears of losing early momentum with a large coalition of allies, senior aides acknowledged this week. Earlier Saturday, Biden met with Ukraine‘s foreign and defense ministers, joined by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to brief the Polish on their war efforts.
Biden said the fighting in Kyiv and Metropol and Kharkiv are the latest battles in a long struggle. “Over the last 30 years, the forces of autocracy have revived all across the globe,” he said in the speech. Its hallmarks are familiar ones, contempt for the rule of law, contempt for democratic freedom, contempt for the truth itself.”
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