Seems to slip US President Joe Biden’s tongueregarding his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, which sparked widespread controversy during the past two days, is still interacting.
After it reverberated around the world following he said that Putin “cannot stay in power”, and despite the assertion of the master of the White House, at dawn today, Monday, that he did not call for a change of the Russian regime, his allies and all of them mobilized to put out the fires that were ignited by that. statements.
It also left astonishment in the allied countries, and made his advisers on high alert to quell criticism, according to what was reported by AFP.
horrific slip
For his part, the prominent Republican Senator, Jim Risch, described these statements as a “horrific slip of the tongue”, which completely contradicts his administration’s continued efforts so far to stop the escalation of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
He also told CNN, “Nothing can lead to an escalation more than a call for regime change.”
In turn, the American diplomat Richard Haass, who heads the “Council on Foreign Relations” organization, saw that the White House guest “made the difficult situation more difficult and the dangerous situation more dangerous.” “Putin will see this as confirmation of what he has always believed in,” he added on Twitter.
Equally austere, François Heisbourg, a researcher at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said it was best for American leaders not to “let their mouths loose.”
On the other hand, former US ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul said on Twitter that Biden’s words should be read a little differently. “Biden expressed what billions of people around the world believe, and millions in Russia as well, and he did not say that the United States should remove him from power, there is a difference,” he said.
ideological mobilization
As for Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, he issued a warning of another kind, as he considered that Biden’s statements in Warsaw indicate a kind of “infernal ideological mobilization” and may spark a much longer conflict in Ukraine.
He also added that he believed that the conflict in Ukraine was “crazy” and might have been stopped three weeks ago through dialogue. “But now there is a kind of infernal ideological mobilization that is taking place from all sides,” he added.
He also saw that “these people are preparing for years of fighting,” as he put it
However, Deripaska, who is sanctioned by the United States and Britain, did not explicitly blame a party for the outbreak of the conflict, but said that the United States and Russia escalated their rhetoric.
It is noteworthy that the relationship between Moscow and Washington has witnessed over the past weeks verbal arguments and endless verbal wars. Every time Biden criticized Putin, he also received a harsh response from Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who had previously described the US president as tired and forgetful, following the latter accused the Kremlin master of a dictator and war criminal, once morest the background of the ongoing military operations since last February on Ukrainian territory. .