President Joe Biden demanded Russian leader Vladimir Putin be removed from power, during a speech in Poland over the weekend. The White House quickly issued a statement saying the president was not calling for regime change in Moscow.
The president’s latest verbal assault on Russia was made Saturday during Biden’s four-day trip to Europe. Standing in front of the Royal Castle in Warsaw, he said, “For God’s sake, this man [Putin] cannot remain in power.”
The statement appeared to be a call to remove Putin as president of the Russian Federation. Shortly after, the White House issued a statement claiming that was not Biden’s intent. Fox News reports an administration official said, “The President’s point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region. He was not discussing Putin’s power in Russia, or regime change.”
This is the second time during Biden’s stay in Poland that the White House has been forced to clarify the president’s remarks. On Friday, Biden appeared to tell soldiers in the Army’s 82nd Airborn that they would soon be deployed to Ukraine. "And you’re going to see when you’re there," he said.
When asked about the statement, the White House told Fox News, "the president has been clear we are not sending US troops to Ukraine and there is no change in that position."
In recent weeks, Biden has called Putin a "murderous thug," "dictator," and "war criminal." Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the remarks had pushed the Moscow-Washington relationship to the "verge of breaking."
The Kremlin appears less concerned about Biden’s Saturday speech. When asked about the comment by Reuters, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, “That’s not for Biden to decide. The president of Russia is elected by Russians.”
However, he warned, "Personal insults like this narrow the window of opportunity for our bilateral relations under the current [US] administration. It is necessary to be aware of this."
French President Emmanual Macron echoed Moscow’s concerns about Biden’s statement. He said achieving a ceasefire was the first priority and “If we want to do that, we can’t escalate either in words or actions.”
Kyle Anzalone is the opinion editor of Antiwar.com, news editor of the Libertarian Institute, and co-host of Conflicts of Interest.
What happened to “speak softly but carry a big stick”?
But a ceasefire is manifestly NOT US’s first priority … it simply is not. Chaos and division are good for business.
It was updated to speak loudly and carry an expensive but largely ineffectual stick.
Putin says, “Bye-Done cannot remain in power”.
If this were actually factual, I’d certainly agree.
The scariest part for me is the replacement for Biden is Kamala … at least Biden occasionally calls his own shots; the vp would be a pure creature of the neocons.
And Hillary Clinton becomes VP and next something happens to Kamala………..
Now that’s a real nightmare …
I couldn’t sleep at all last night, just imagining it…
I think you’re on to something. I hope the witch didn’t read this but I’m sure she’s been plotting her next move. We set a bad precedence by electing someone in their late 70’s to a first term. I’m sure Clinton, being younger, immediately started planning for her next run.
Wow class act
Was Biden projecting himself?
As Glenn Greenwald points out in his latest, this is a “tired old man” making bad gaffes demonstrating his inability to be a competent President. More importantly, the fact that the Administration works around him is dangerous, as it is full of neocons who are driving this war. He really is not in control of the government. Only the Pentagon appears to be keeping the US out of Ukraine.
Something I have been reading on social media: Who is the person walking back Biden’s statements and rewriting them?
Who is vetoing/overriding Biden’s decisions?
If no one in the Kremlin is speaking to anyone in the Biden regime, who is talking to whom?
Whoever that is, they should reveal themselves.
Yes, if no one authoritative is talking to the Kremlin, they must assume his words represent a live option, and act accordingly. It will be called “Putin paranoia” (cf. Stalin), but is solid rationality; and, will at a minimum logically result in a palace purge of all “moderates”.
How long will Biden remain in power? “Assad must go” – well, he’s outlived several Presidents. Putin has outlived even more. Biden will be gone in a couple years and Putin will still be standing. He’s likely to outlive the next US President, too. Imagine the butthurt the US will be feeling.
True, and Fidel Castro outlasted how many? LOL
Zombie Joe is under delirium
Every time Biden goes off script and is allowed to speak on his own, catastrophe awaits. The guy is an embarrassment and dangerous, especially with the specter of WW3 a possibility.
As have several other Former Presidents Trump still does it, Bush the younger did it all the time as well
Trying to compare Biden’s mental condition with Trump is really out there. Biden is a danger to the world, when Trump was in office there was NO WAR!
I recall wars during Trump’s time. Don’t know where you were.
The point is, NO NEW WARS under Trump where the U.S. sent armies into other countries. Biden has been a complete clusterf…k from the beginning probably a combination of ineptitude and deliberate planning by his handlers.
I agree about Biden and I’m willing to praise Trump for not starting any new wars. But the implication seems to be that he did things differently. This is an example of his work:
“The United States military in 2017 relaxed its rules of engagement for airstrikes in Afghanistan, which resulted in a massive increase in civilian casualties. From the last year of the Obama administration to the last full year of recorded data during the Trump administration, the number of civilians killed by U.S.-led airstrikes in Afghanistan increased by 330 percent.”
And believe me, I could go on and on. There wasn’t anything peaceful about Trump. He was as vicious as the rest.
maybe he has trouble multitasking?
Coups and Empire building as a Messiah can be a rough row to hoe
Yet Trump was the first US president since Jimmy Carter to NOT start a new war. Weird, eh?
I nearly upchuck every time I hear that. Carter didn’t drone anybody or lift the rules of engagement to make killing easier. He didn’t do two missile strikes on Syria. He didn’t sanction multiple countries into economic misery. He didn’t start a new military branch. He didn’t do the Abraham accords or threaten annihilation on three different countries. Can’t wait for his return.
Agree with you re Trump, Wars; but Carter did do one terrible thing: he let the Brzezinski crew into the Dem WH for the first time … this way, the neocons got in charge of the foreign policy of BOTH parties.
And of course, big B immediately got started with the destruction by beginning the Afghan Mujahidin caper against the SU and away we went.
Carter did plenty of terrible things. Every time I mention him it’s usually preceded with “lousy”. Carter was president at the right time, foreign policy wise. Vietnam was still fresh and the country was in no mood for anything remotely resembling what we have today. So even comparing anyone from today with anyone from back then is senseless. .
* (he was The
most incompetent candidate the Devil could get at the time)
Plus, there is always the danger he could get the coffee maker and the nuclear launch pad confused….
😆
I really don’t think they let him near the coffee maker. He probably can’t run around the room with scissors either.
Joe Biden: Angry old man with dementia needs to be impeached. He doesn’t know what day of the week it is or what planet he is on. My god man; keep the Nuclear Football out of his hands.
And in the wings? Kamala Harris the clueless. After that? Nancy Pelosi. Angry crazy old woman. Or in a 2023 impeachment then removal from office? It becomes Harris then back to a GOP political hack..
We obviously have a problem.
Retard Sandwich: Two Dementia clowns and a drugged out retard in the middle!
Come on man: Elections DO have consequences!
Retard Sandwich: Two Dementia clowns and a drugged out retard in the middle! Biden-Harris-Pelosi.
Come on man: Elections DO have consequences!
And I’m sure you were completely comfortable with the football in Trump’s hands because the guy was very stable.
Your derangement is showing!
Actually, he’s right for once.
Only if you can also find a way to remove the brainless VP Harris and demented Pelosi from power. Otherwise, what changes?
I should have read further. Sambor71 made the point earlier.
It’s worth seeing twice.
The Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko, did admit that members of his party murdered anti-Maidan leaders during the ‘revolution of dignity’ and extrajudicial murders of non-combatants in Torez in 2014.
There were plenty that used their status as a volunteer fighter in Donbass (known as the Anti-Terrorism Operation — ATO) to get elected back in 2014. Practically all of them lost in the 2019 parliamentary elections.
Joe Biden rewarded the murderers and thug Banderites with Power in 2014, some examples of the Donbass ATO unit members who became deputies:
Ex-commander Azov battalion: Andriy Biletsky (ex Verkhovna Rada deputy 2014- 2019), founder of the neo-Nazi Social-National Assembly;
Ex-commander Aidar battalion: Sergei Melnichuk (Ex-Rada deputy 2014-2019);
Ex- company commander, Aidar: Ihor Lapin (Ex- Rada deputy 2014-2019);
Ex- Dnipro Battalion commander: Yuriy Bereza
Ex-Aidar volunteer, helicopter pilot, Nadiya Savchenko — Ex-Rada deputy (2014-2018)
Ex-commander of Donbass battalion: Konstantin Grishin, former Rada deputy, (Self-Help party), alias – Semyon Semenchenko.
Great statement. No one should apologize nor back pedal it. I’m sure Putin just gave his security guards a pay raise and is very paranoid now.
F-cking Madman.
E.D.:
Don’t hold back, tell us what you really think…. 😉
I blocked out the “u”, so I held back ;P
No gaffes, he’s speaking out the quiet part as he always has done. No surprise there but admitting that this is a US war to regime change a super power is an open declaration of war…
Just like the gang-rape on Yugoslavia/ Serbia was Albright’s war, egged on by her and her hatred towards Serbs, this war is entirely a war of Vickie Nudelman and her and her fathers and grandfather’s blind and sick hatred towards Russia and anything Russian.
Check out Gonzo lira’s take:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TzR—YDDIQ
I think that it really is quite something that the President is so interpretive…
“For God’s sake, this man [Putin] cannot remain in power.”
Fox News reports an administration official said, “The President’s point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region. He was not discussing Putin’s power in Russia, or regime change.”
Nice try. Actually, that’s an exaggeration. That was the most futile attempt of an interpretation in the history of futile attempts of interpretations.
What Americans think of Joe Biden: “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power”!
From Pepe Escobar at VK (he’s on 7-day suspension from Twitter)…
Pepe Escobar
today at 8:44 pm
Russia is selling at least $1.1 BILLION in oil and gas a day – and rising.
Russia’s current account surplus in 2022 will be at least $200 billion.
Sanction stupidity? Bring it on.
“When asked about the statement, the White House told Fox News, “the president has been clear we are not sending US troops to Ukraine and there is no change in that position.”
Why is that?
The last remaining Ukrainian may be less angry at Russian intervention than NATO’s lack of commitment to intervening.
For Ukrainian war emigres, this may seem like a relative boon to be established in a new sovereign with benefits that have previously been afforded to Muslim war refugees.
After Russia takes out the remaining fuel depots, conventional energy power stations, and communications infrastructure, rebuilding will be problematic without Western funds.
In some areas, Ukraine may appear as though a neutron bomb hit: buildings undamaged but the residents have fled.
The global existential issue for residents outside the UK, UK, Germany or just the Five Eyes: Is global peace possible if the aforementioned nations are existentially neutralized?
I’m not adept at quoting Scripture and neither is Washington–at least with any sincerity. I have a conscious and a soft spot for humanity outside my country’s (US) borders.
Biden’s words aside, since when has the US *NOT* sought to ‘exercise its power over its neighbors or the region’ and since when has ‘regime change’ *NOT* been our modus operandi when exercising that national power? Certainly, this ‘clarification of the intent’ of Biden’s comment serves the purpose, but in the larger scheme of things it is simply another example of the hypocrisy of our own actions. Yes, Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine is categorically A Bad Thing™- but because someone else does exactly what we have done many times over doesn’t make OUR murderous misadventures A Good Thing™. As a nation we tell ourselves that we are the Good Guys, the perpetual Cavalry riding to the rescue of the Wagon Train- but we tend to forget the other, much darker, side of the myth.
My God, Joe Biden cannot remain in power! He is a retard criminal.
“For GOD’S Sake”*
*Also: “Lord’s sake, Lawd’s sake, for Land’s sake”
Does anyone understand those words and what is being said/invoked?
A: a call for the Word of God which is His Will be done as opposed to something else! example: When Granny spilt her cocktail after seeing Chris Rock (a comedian who often works Oscar’s crowds and had campaigned for more color biased nominations and awards) being assaulted by an Oscar nominated delusional snowflake headcase, she exclaimed out loud, “oh! For land’s sake!” The expression can be one of surprise or astonishment or even frustration.
Let me frame an answer to the invocation from Biden’s frustration of his reading his own prepared speech.
Our president went off Script (exactly like Trump used to do) to punctuate with his brand of insight, “for God’s sake” when reading what was prepared for him. Joe went improv to spice it up, make it his.
This is pure Joe with a trumpian off-script Branding punctuation.
Our president put the removal of Putin in the context of Godly desire.
Our president put the removal of Putin in the context of God’s Will.
Our president put the removal of Putin in the context of State Policy.
Our president put the removal of Putin in the context of Church and State Policy based on flaky freaky dominionist Templar beliefs.
Church and State policing is available,… For God’s sake? To do the will of God? By removing another head of State? To defend our freedoms?
Our President wants NATO to have a moment of clarity “for God’s sake.”
Not for peace but for Regime change. For gawds sake, in this instance the author of death: for Lucifer. As unacceptable as Will Smith. Lucifer BTW has the present world dominion and NATO in his armory.
The question that is tugging at your heartstrings is HOW does the World perform God’s Will by removing Putin from Power? For God’s sake?
HOW do we perform “For the Sake of God”? How do we flesh that out?
Joey drank the koolaid of a holy righteous war who’s escalation will ensure Mutual Assured Destruction throughout NATO and non NATO nations in the old world Hemisphere. A war which is all based in USA Dominionist Eschatologies to be King of the Hill in Jerusalem. A war that insures first that all other contenders in NATO are Not hill eligible and that specifically the living Hebrew Remnant/ Diaspora of that hemisphere are all rubbed out in unrestrained Nuclear Genocide: M.A.D.
For gawd’s sake.
For God’s sake, Russia is defending the Hebrew Diaspora in their care and there are no apologies to be made for that: US State policy should condemn Ukraine and all rogue nations inciting the escalation of EU war and forge lasting peace, not War for God’s sake.
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Everyone should watch Alexander Mercouris’ latest Youtube video on Biden’s speech. Rips it apart. If you want to know what’s going on with a clear overview, watch Mercouris’ and The Duran’s channels.
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In the Donbass they are fighting for the Russian world which includes the Ukraine. Moscow has been very clear on the stated aims of the Special Operation. Disarm and De-Banderise the country. Most Ukrainians are only to happy to have the Western backed Banderites removed. The further West the Russian forces go the more hardline Banderites they encounter.
Look up who Stepan Bandera is it makes very interesting reading……this is the type of people the US put in power in Ukraine in 2014 after they ran a violent bloody coup from the US embassy. In Ukraine US/NATO is the aggressor, after the coup they attempted to ethnically cleanse Ukraine of ethnic Russians to ensure they hold the balance of power. Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide was being used as a tool to control the ballot box.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy recently ordered the suspension of 11 political parties with links to Russia. The largest of them is the Opposition Platform for Life, which has 44 out of 450 seats in the country’s parliament.
The Opposition Platform for Life is led by Viktor Medvedchuk, who has been held under house arrest since May 2021. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s also sanctioned three television stations owned by Medvedchuk. The move came shortly after talks between the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba. Total abuse of power, politically motivated and a complete disgrace.
“For GOD’S Sake”*
*Also: “Lord’s sake, Lawd’s sake, for Land’s sake”
Does anyone understand those words and what is being said/invoked?
A: a call for the Word of God which is His Will to be done as opposed to something else! example: When Granny spilt her cocktail after seeing Chris Rock (a comedian who often works Oscar’s crowds and had campaigned for more color biased nominations and awards) being assaulted by an Oscar nominated delusional snowflake headcase, she exclaimed out loud, “oh! For land’s sake!” The expression can be one of surprise or astonishment or even frustration.
Let me frame an answer to the invocation from Biden’s frustration of his reading his own prepared speech.
Our president went off Script (exactly like Trump used to do) to punctuate with his brand of insight, “for God’s sake” when reading what was prepared for him. Joe went improv to spice it up, make it his.
This is pure Joe with a trumpian off-script Branding punctuation.
Our president put the removal of Putin in the context of Godly desire.
Our president put the removal of Putin in the context of God’s Will.
Our president put the removal of Putin in the context of State Policy.
Our president put the removal of Putin in the context of Church and State Policy based on flaky freaky dominionist Templar beliefs.
Church and State policing is available,… For God’s sake? To do the will of God? By removing another head of State? To defend our freedoms?
Our President wants NATO to have a moment of clarity “for God’s sake.”
Not for peace but for Regime change. For gawds sake, in this instance the author of death: for Lucifer. As unacceptable as Will Smith. Lucifer BTW has the present world dominion and NATO in his armory.
The question that is tugging at your heartstrings is HOW does the World perform God’s Will by removing Putin from Power? For God’s sake?
HOW do we perform “For the Sake of God”? How do we flesh that out?
Joey drank the koolaid of a holy righteous war who’s escalation will ensure Mutual Assured Destruction throughout NATO and non NATO nations in the old world Hemisphere. A war which is all based in USA Dominionist Eschatologies to be King of the Hill in Jerusalem. A war that insures first that all other contenders in NATO are Not hill eligible and that specifically the living Hebrew Remnant/ Diaspora of that hemisphere are all rubbed out in unrestrained Nuclear Genocide: M.A.D.
For gawd’s sake.
For God’s sake, Russia is defending the Hebrew Diaspora in their care and there are no apologies to be made for that: US State policy should condemn Ukraine and all rogue nations inciting the escalation of EU war and forge lasting peace, not War for God’s sake.