Either Joe Biden is so senile that he cannot appear in public without making world-altering statements, or the demand for regime change was part of the script and his entire government saying “he said that by accident” is also part of the script.
Either way, this is all just bizarre.
RT:
America’s leading diplomat has insisted President Joe Biden didn’t mean to suggest Washington aims to oust Vladimir Putin as Russia’s leader, standing by previous assertions that the US doesn’t have a regime-strange strategy in Moscow.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken made his comments at a press conference on Sunday in Jerusalem, hours after Biden raised eyebrows during an emotional speech in Warsaw about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Biden said of President Putin, “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.”
An unidentified White House official quickly tried to clarify the US position, saying Biden’s point was that Putin can’t be allowed to exercise power over neighboring countries. On Sunday, Blinken continued the effort to walk back Biden’s comments.
“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,” Blinken told reporters. “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.”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded to Biden’s speech, saying, “It’s not up to the president of the US and not up to the Americans to decide who will remain in power in Russia. Only Russians, who vote for their president, can decide that.”
Yeah, I mean – he’s allegedly the President of the United States.
So you can believe him or just think he’s a senile old coot who literally has no idea what is even going on. I don’t know. Who knows?
Michael Tracey is saying he thinks it was on purpose.
There was no ambiguity in what Biden said: he didn't even stutter for a change. The regime change demand came in a formal, prepared speech. It's consistent with all observable US policy. But don't believe your ears, because we know Biden to be a Very Serious Foreign Policy Person
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) March 28, 2022
It’s definitely true that there was no ambiguity.
These people in the Biden Administration claiming that “he didn’t actually mean that” are trying to spin it as though he meant something else, but there is only one thing those words that he said could mean.
Whatever that was, I don’t think Russia has any choice but to act with the knowledge that in his most important speech to date, Joe Biden called for the overthrow of the Russian government.
Biden effectively pleading insanity, saying that he doesn’t understand the words he’s saying and can’t be held responsible for his own public statements, doesn’t change the fact that he said it.