24 minutes agoBlinken: US No Strategy for Change
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(4 years ago)The United States does not have a strategy for changing the regime in Russia, State Secretary Antony Blinken told reporters Sunday after President Joe Biden said a day earlier that Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot stay in power”. “
The United States does not have a strategy for changing the regime in Russia, State Secretary Antony Blinken told reporters Sunday after President Joe Biden said a day earlier that Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot stay in power”.
I think the president, the White House, simply stressed that President Putin cannot rely on war or aggression against Ukraine or anyone else,” said Mr. Blinken at a press conference during a visit to Jerusalem.
“As you know, and as you've heard us say over and over again, we don't have a strategy for changing the regime in Russia or anywhere else, on this issue. In this case, as in any case, it is up to the people of the land to speak. Depends on the Russian people,” said US Secretary of State Blinken.
In a speech during his trip to Poland, US President Joe Biden said Russian leader Vladimir Putin “cannot stay in power” -- comments that a White House official later said they were aiming to prepare the world's democracies for an extended conflict over Ukraine, rather than support the change of the regime in Russia.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Reuters following President Beden's comments that “is not up to Beden to decide. The president of Russia is elected by the Russians. ”
French President Emmanuel Macron told the French TV channel 3 on Sunday: “I would not use this kind of formula because I continue to talk to President Putin. ”
US envoy to NATO Juliane Smith told CNN that Mr. Biden's comments were a response after meeting hundreds of Ukrainian refugees.
I think it was a principled human response to the stories she had heard during the day,” said Mrs. Smith. “But no, US does not have a policy on changing the regime in Russia”
The US president's comments in Warsaw came shortly after meeting with Polish President Andreze Duda and other Polish officials to discuss Russian aggression against Ukraine, as Russia seems to have shifted its military offensive from Ukraine's capital, Kiev to the east. / VOA/
