The US envoy to NATO said today that the United States has no policy of regime change in Russia, in a latest attempt to clarify President Joe Biden’s statement that Russian President Vladimir Putin “can not stay in power.”
Julian Smith tried to interpret Biden’s comments in Poland yesterday, saying that a day had passed during which the head of the American state had talked to Ukrainian refugees.
“At the time, I think it was a conscious human reaction to the stories she had heard that day,” Smith told CNN’s State of the Union before adding:
“The United States does not have a policy of regime change in Russia. Dot and hyphen.”
Biden’s comments in Poland included a statement earlier in the day calling Putin a “butcher” in what appears to be a sharp escalation of the US approach to Moscow amid its invasion of Ukraine.
Senator James Rees, the Republican leader in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called the president’s remarks a “terrible blunder” and said he wished the president had stayed on with his scheduled speech.
“Most people who do not work in the field of international relations do not realize that these nine words he uttered would cause the kind of explosion they caused,” he told CNN.
“It will create a huge problem.”
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