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Biden says Putin “cannot remain in power,” but White House says it’s not call for regime change
US President Joe Biden, talking in Warsaw, mentioned that Russia has “strangled democracy” in its invasion of Ukraine and known as out Russian President Vladimir Putin’s lies in justifying the warfare.
“During the last 30 years, the forces of autocracy have revived all throughout the globe. Its hallmarks are acquainted ones: contempt for the rule of legislation, contempt for democratic freedom, contempt for the reality itself,” Biden mentioned.
“Right this moment, Russia has strangled democracy and sought to take action elsewhere, not solely in his homeland. Underneath false claims of ethnic solidarity, he is invalidated neighboring nations. Putin has the gall to say he is ‘denazifying Ukraine.’ It is a lie. It is simply cynical. He is aware of that. And it is also obscene. President Zelensky was democratically elected. He is Jewish. His father’s household was wiped out within the Nazi Holocaust. And Putin has the audacity, like all our autocrats earlier than him, to imagine that may will make proper,” he mentioned.
Biden then referenced US President Abraham Lincoln, who mentioned “proper makes would possibly.”
Biden additionally addressed the Russian president’s criticism of NATO.
“A prison desires to painting NATO enlargement as an imperial challenge aimed toward destabilizing Russia. Nothing is farther from the reality. NATO is a defensive alliance. It has by no means sought the demise of Russia,” Biden mentioned.
Putin made the selection to have interaction in warfare, Biden mentioned.
“It is nothing lower than a direct problem to the rule-based worldwide order established for the reason that finish of World Struggle II, and it threatens to return to many years of warfare that ravaged Europe earlier than the worldwide rule-based order was put in place. We can not return to that. We can not,” he mentioned.
He then outlined steps to stymie Russia, together with sanctions and different financial actions.