Biden's ad-libbed remark about Putin sent the White House into clean-up mode.
The White House immediately scrambled to explain the closing remark. Officials put out a statement claiming Biden’s “point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region” and which insisted that the president “was not discussing Putin’s power in Russia or regime change.” Secretary of Stateto reporters that “we do not have a strategy of regime change in Russia or anywhere else, for that matter.
not to send American troops into combat against Russia. He also remains opposed to using NATO or U.S. fighter jets to secure Ukraine’s airspace from Russian attacks,
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