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Macron Warns Against Inflammatory Words After Biden’s Remark On Putin by ayindejimmy(m): 12:20am On Mar 28, 2022
The US has been forced to clarify that it is not seeking regime change in Russia after President Joe Biden’s suggestion that Vladimir Putin is a “butcher” who “cannot remain in power” prompted concern and condemnation at home and abroad.

France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, warned against the use of inflammatory language in an already volatile situation, while the Kremlin said the “personal insults” further undermined relations between the US and Russia.

Biden’s ad-libbed remarks on Putin’s leadership, made during a speech in Poland on Saturday, were taken by many as a call for the Russian president to be overthrown.

As Russia launched symbolic missile strikes on the Ukrainian city of Lviv, 40 miles from the Polish border, Biden said Putin was “bent on violence”, adding there was “simply no justification or provocation for Russia’s choice of war” in Ukraine.

He continued: “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.”

The president’s comments were swiftly walked back by both the White House and the secretary of state, Antony Blinken, who insisted the US did not have “a strategy of regime change in Russia – or anywhere else”.

Macron said on Sunday that he would not have used Biden’s words, adding that he saw his task as “achieving first a ceasefire and then the total withdrawal of [Russian] troops by diplomatic means”.

He told broadcaster France 3: “If we want to do that, we can’t escalate in either words or actions.”

Minutes after Biden spoke, the White House scrabbled to clarify his meaning, saying the president “was not discussing Putin’s power in Russia, or regime change”. According to one official, the speech was not a call to topple the Russian president, but rather an attempt to prepare the world’s democracies for an extended conflict.

Blinken was even more emphatic when he addressed the issue during a visit to Jerusalem on Sunday. “I think the president, the White House, made the point last night that, quite simply, President Putin cannot be empowered to wage war or engage in aggression against Ukraine or anyone else,” he said.

Biden’s Putin ad-lib should focus west on what its endgame should be
“As you know, and as you have heard us say repeatedly, we do not have a strategy of regime change in Russia – or anywhere else, for that matter.”

Earlier on Saturday, Biden had been asked what seeing Ukrainian refugees at Stadion Narodowy had made him think of as he deals with Putin. He replied: “He’s a butcher.”


Julianne Smith, the US permanent representative to Nato, told CNN that Biden’s words were “a principled human reaction to the stories that he had heard that day”. But she also stressed the US “does not have a policy of regime change in Russia – full stop”.

However, Senator James Risch, ranking Republican on the senate foreign relations committee and a member of the senate intelligence committee, said Biden had made a “horrendous gaffe” and created “a huge problem” when he went off-script.



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“I think most people who don’t deal in the lane of foreign relations don’t realise that those nine words that he uttered would cause the kind of eruption that they did,” Risch told CNN.

“But any time you say or even as he did suggest that the policy was regime change, it’s gonna cause a huge problem. This administration has done everything they can to stop escalating. There’s not a whole lot more you can do to escalate than to call for regime change.”

The Russian government said Biden appeared to have lost his cool, adding that it was not up to the US president to determine who ruled Russia.

“A state leader should control his temper,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told the state news agency Tass. “Personal insults like this narrow the window of opportunity for our bilateral relations under the current [US] administration. It is necessary to be aware of this.”

The Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska said Biden’s speech suggested some sort of “hellish ideological mobilisation” was under way that may usher in a much longer conflict in Ukraine.

Richard Haass, the veteran American diplomat and president of the US Council on Foreign Relations, said Biden’s words had been counter-productive and damaging.

“The comments by @potus made a difficult situation more difficult and a dangerous situation more dangerous,”



https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/27/us-denies-it-is-seeking-regime-change-in-russia-after-biden-comments-putin

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Re: Macron Warns Against Inflammatory Words After Biden’s Remark On Putin by sukkot: 2:14am On Mar 28, 2022
cheesy fear fear macron

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Re: Macron Warns Against Inflammatory Words After Biden’s Remark On Putin by Dre555: 2:15am On Mar 28, 2022
Hh
Re: Macron Warns Against Inflammatory Words After Biden’s Remark On Putin by djflexcy: 2:15am On Mar 28, 2022
The US should be more concerned about what goes on in their country and not another man's own. Moreover if they need country to help, Nigeria is here for them. We have series of bandit, unknown gunmen bokoharam and the likes scattered allover the country

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Re: Macron Warns Against Inflammatory Words After Biden’s Remark On Putin by NwaNimo1(m): 2:15am On Mar 28, 2022
SMS....



Short men syndrome.....

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Re: Macron Warns Against Inflammatory Words After Biden’s Remark On Putin by Metrofox(m): 2:18am On Mar 28, 2022
Na Zelensky I blame..mumu. man think say na movie him dey act with him fellow countrymen lives

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Re: Macron Warns Against Inflammatory Words After Biden’s Remark On Putin by Nova1988(m): 2:19am On Mar 28, 2022
sleepy joe will continue to disgrace the West. sad

Macron don dey get sense low-key oo.

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Re: Macron Warns Against Inflammatory Words After Biden’s Remark On Putin by jumper524(m): 2:19am On Mar 28, 2022
Macros more sensible than biden.
Truly age no be brain.

Only a matter of time, most European countries would start defying those sanctions made by the USA.

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Re: Macron Warns Against Inflammatory Words After Biden’s Remark On Putin by onedayatime(m): 2:20am On Mar 28, 2022
Biden is a scum and is a shit. If Trump were in power, this war wouldn't have taken place in the first place

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Re: Macron Warns Against Inflammatory Words After Biden’s Remark On Putin by calcal: 2:20am On Mar 28, 2022
That's what happens when emotion...

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Re: Macron Warns Against Inflammatory Words After Biden’s Remark On Putin by mazizitonene(m): 2:21am On Mar 28, 2022
Interesting times indeed....
Re: Macron Warns Against Inflammatory Words After Biden’s Remark On Putin by onedayatime(m): 2:22am On Mar 28, 2022
Even the president and the presidency are both on different page in this Ukraine Russia war. They know that Biden is the aggressor of the war here and so they are distancing themselves from him

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Re: Macron Warns Against Inflammatory Words After Biden’s Remark On Putin by Athemisia: 2:23am On Mar 28, 2022
Chai! We talk am before oh...
Sleeping Joe don make matter worse again ooh... cry

Ukraine kpele ooh...

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Re: Macron Warns Against Inflammatory Words After Biden’s Remark On Putin by onedayatime(m): 2:25am On Mar 28, 2022
This is the expected result when you vote for a dullard to rule your country.

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Re: Macron Warns Against Inflammatory Words After Biden’s Remark On Putin by Ratello: 2:25am On Mar 28, 2022
Very stupid and careless statement

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Re: Macron Warns Against Inflammatory Words After Biden’s Remark On Putin by KallmemrB0: 2:25am On Mar 28, 2022
Huge error.. Biden made a Huge error....shouldn't have used that sentence.... Now Russia will believe America is Secretly working to oust putin......

Zelensky is just a bad president.... He should have stopped this War weeks ago... Now the greatest loser so far is Ukraine....

Also that 20k Russian Dead soldiers is a scam... Death toll is not even upto 2000

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Re: Macron Warns Against Inflammatory Words After Biden’s Remark On Putin by CoronaVirusPro: 2:28am On Mar 28, 2022
It’s not a time to hide words. How best do you describe a dictator who is intoxicated with power, and causing bloodshed. A leader who does not know the meaning of the simple word “Sovereignty”

That statement is valid and accurate for the time.

Putin cannot continue to be power. It’s glaring he has mental issues and can trigger doom anytime.

Russians will decide their faith in months time, when hardship commences a hard reboot on they economy.

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Re: Macron Warns Against Inflammatory Words After Biden’s Remark On Putin by Richy4(m): 2:29am On Mar 28, 2022
The need to doctor and sensor words are still the reasons why this war is still going on....People don't call a spade a spade or say things the way they are nowadays....... They keep on using "hot water" to press down words so that it will be mild on the skin...while innocent people are dying daily...

When an individual authorized the launch of symbolic missile strikes intentionally that kills innocent citizens on cold blood... which “butcher" or abattoir pass that one?

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Re: Macron Warns Against Inflammatory Words After Biden’s Remark On Putin by Emerituz(m): 2:30am On Mar 28, 2022
onedayatime:
Biden is a scum and is a shit. If Trump were in power, this war wouldn't have taken place in the first place

Trump is capable of choosing worse choice of words tho

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Re: Macron Warns Against Inflammatory Words After Biden’s Remark On Putin by Originalsly: 2:31am On Mar 28, 2022
Why is the US sooo involved when they are not in the E.U?

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Re: Macron Warns Against Inflammatory Words After Biden’s Remark On Putin by Nobody: 2:32am On Mar 28, 2022
Both Biden and Putin are not stupids.

They all wanna turn western Europe or Europe at large,the battle ground as usual.

Macron understand this very well. Both Putin and Biden don't mean well to Europe,they just wanna tear Europe apart as usual,but now Europe is not as stupid as before.

AxEE

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Re: Macron Warns Against Inflammatory Words After Biden’s Remark On Putin by SouthWestBlood(m): 2:33am On Mar 28, 2022
Why is Macron really bothered?
Re: Macron Warns Against Inflammatory Words After Biden’s Remark On Putin by 96ACE: 2:34am On Mar 28, 2022
grin
Re: Macron Warns Against Inflammatory Words After Biden’s Remark On Putin by Jubrilv(m): 2:35am On Mar 28, 2022
Let there be peace......that's all I can say to that

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Re: Macron Warns Against Inflammatory Words After Biden’s Remark On Putin by kaaykaay: 2:38am On Mar 28, 2022
hmmmmmmmm
Re: Macron Warns Against Inflammatory Words After Biden’s Remark On Putin by pmc01(m): 2:41am On Mar 28, 2022
Originalsly:
Why is the US sooo involved when they are not in the E.U?

Good question

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Re: Macron Warns Against Inflammatory Words After Biden’s Remark On Putin by Nobody: 2:43am On Mar 28, 2022
jumper524:
Macros more sensible than biden.
Truly age no be brain.

Only a matter of time, most European countries would start defying those sanctions made by the USA.

Let me tell you,Biden knows what he is doing.

He just wanna outsmart Europeans to face Russia,there by making Europe the battle ground when facing Russia. Both Eastern Allies of Europe and Russia would destroy each other,then America comeout of blues as usual to take the glory before those that really fought hard and well,as usual.

America won't emerge winner without pushing its allies into danger. Israel is playing the same game,and China too is playing this game now.

Middle East is too small to know the real power. fact.

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Re: Macron Warns Against Inflammatory Words After Biden’s Remark On Putin by orobs93(m): 2:43am On Mar 28, 2022
CoronaVirusPro:
It’s not a time to hide words. How best do you describe a dictator who is intoxicated with power, and causing bloodshed. A leader who does not know the meaning of the simple word “Sovereignty”

That statement is valid and accurate for the time.

Putin cannot continue to be power. It’s glaring he has mental issues and can trigger doom anytime.




Russians will decide their faith in months time, when hardship commences a hard reboot on they economy.


The thing tire me , I thought we all have freedom of speech and wanted truth to be spoken all times



Re: Macron Warns Against Inflammatory Words After Biden’s Remark On Putin by gambojimeta: 2:45am On Mar 28, 2022
grin
Nobody wants a nuclear war, but Biden is right though.

I like how he is not trying to be politically correct. Freedom of speech.

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Re: Macron Warns Against Inflammatory Words After Biden’s Remark On Putin by 2braithe: 2:48am On Mar 28, 2022
Omo people no dey sleep o
This is 2:48am.

Re: Macron Warns Against Inflammatory Words After Biden’s Remark On Putin by olibeans: 2:50am On Mar 28, 2022
I don't blame Biden, the guy is a real butcher of humans.

Putin is supposed to be poisoned by his own cabinet

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