US ambassador to NATO, Jalianne Smith, has countered US President Joe Biden’s statement that Vladimir Putin can never again stay as Russian President.
The Biden government has forged ahead with Sunday to tidy up the President’s spur of the moment comment he made in Warsaw on Saturday when he visited Ukrainian refugees in Poland saying Putin “cancannot remain in power.”Smith, however, said the amazing remarks by the US leader was a “principled human reaction,” made after he went through the day seeing the firsthand tragedies of war, when he chatted with many Ukranian refugees,” the ambassador told CNN.
“He went to the National Stadium in Warsaw and literally met with hundreds of Ukrainians. He heard their heroic stories as they were fleeing Ukraine in the wake of Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine.“In the moment, I think that was a principled human reaction to the stories that he had heard that day.”
In any case, Smith said, the “US does not have a policy of regime change in Russia, full stop.”
Her remarks come hours after Secretary of State Antony Blinken likewise attempted to make light of the President’s comments while in Israel, saying, “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.”
Smith proceeded, “The full administration, the President included, believes that we cannot empower Putin right now to wage war in Ukraine or pursue these acts of aggression.”
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