Joe Biden has walked back comments advocating regime changes in Russia. Reuters. Biden said that Vladimir Putin "cannot remain in power" and called him a butcher. The Biden administration immediately tried to spin the comments and said that Biden does not want regime change in Russia. After being asked by a reporter if he did support regime change Biden gave a one word reply of "no". Putin used fears of regime change in Russia as one of the reasons why he launched the war in Ukraine, with many Republicans saying that Biden was playing into Putin's hands.
My Comment:
Once again, Biden went off script and caused major diplomatic damage. I don't think the Reuters article explained how serious of a gaffe this was. It's the kind of mistake that can start wars and given that Russia has thousands of nukes pointed at us it's a mistake that we cannot afford.
I also think that it stopped any doubt in Vladimir Putin's mind that the USA's foreign policy is in fact regime change. He's going to think, correctly I might add, that Biden said the quiet part out loud. I personally think that our foreign policy under Obama and Biden was in fact overthrowing the Putin regime. It wasn't under President Trump, but I think the deep state did in fact work towards that goal.
Why they would want this is beyond me. Russia does have an aggressive foreign policy, but so do many of our allies do as well. The cold war is long over and the Soviet Union is dead and gone. Putin and Russia do have many problems but nothing that suggests that our foreign policy against Russia is justified.
Regardless, I think this is another sign of Biden's mental decline. I have to think that Biden would know that this is not a thing that he should have said but he did so anyways. The government says he was angry but uncontrollable anger is also a sign of mental decline. I know Biden has always been gaffe prone don't think Senator Biden or Vice President Biden would have made this bad of a mistake. Like I said, this is the kind of thing that can cause wars.
The worst part about this is that there is evidence that both Russia and Ukraine want a way out of this war. The Russians have not gained as much ground as they wanted and Ukraine wants to keep what is left of their country. Both sides are starting to try diplomacy and that's a good thing. It's clear that the war won't end with a total victory for either side now and a peace deal should be the major goal.
But Biden's actions here? It's going to hurt the peace process. He has single handedly retroactively justified Putin's actions in Ukraine. If Putin didn't think that NATO was going to use Ukraine as a base to attack Russia before he absolutely does now. That means he is a lot likely to accept a peace deal and that means that the killing will continue.
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