At the end of his speech in Warsaw on Saturday, Biden said that Russian President Vladimir Putin “can not stay in power” after his country invaded Ukraine and continued attacks. “We will have a different future – a brighter future with roots in democracy and principles, hope and light, dignity and dignity, freedom of opportunity,” Biden told some 1,000 people, including some Ukrainian refugees. “For God’s sake, this man can not stay in power.” The White House issued a statement saying Biden’s remarks were not part of a prepared speech and that there was no call for regime change in Moscow. “The president’s issue was that Putin should not be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region,” the statement said. “He did not discuss Putin’s rule in Russia or regime change.” US President Joe Biden addresses media representatives during a press conference at NATO Headquarters in Brussels on March 24, 2022. Photo by THOMAS COEX / AFP via Getty Images A day earlier, while visiting US troops in Poland, the president appeared to be telling them that they would soon be in Ukraine, a departure from a previous promise not to send US troops to Ukraine. “You will see when you are there, and some of you have been there, you will see – you will see women, young people standing in the middle in front of a cursed tank and saying, ‘I’m not leaving, I’m holding my seat,’” Biden told 82nd Airborne Division of the Army after sharing pizza and taking selfies with many of them. The White House also retracted this statement. “The president was clear that we are not sending American troops to Ukraine and there is no change in that position,” the White House said in a statement to the New York Post. On Saturday, after a second setback in the same number of days by the White House, Biden’s staff posted on social media a barrage of tweets focusing exclusively on Ukraine, toughness in Russia, and compassion for American soldiers. Here is what the president said. “My message to the people of Ukraine is the message I gave today to the Ukrainian Foreign Minister and Defense Minister: We stand with you,” he wrote in an official Twitter message at 4:32 p.m. ET, more than an hour after the White House backed its independent statement. Posted at 5:01 p.m. Time and time again, history shows that from our darkest moments comes the greatest progress. This is our moment – and defending democracy is a task of our time. pic.twitter.com/BmLpE9cEKr President Biden (@POTUS) March 26, 2022 About 45 minutes later, the president posted this video of soldiers in Poland thanking them for their service to America. About 10 minutes after the video was posted with the troops, Biden wrote on Twitter about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Putin has the gall to say he ‘dismembers’ Ukraine. This lie is not just cynical. It is obscene. President Zelenskyy was democratically elected. He is Jewish – his father’s family was annihilated in the Nazi Holocaust.” It was about 15 minutes before Biden posted on Twitter the sanctions on Russia and what it is doing to its economy. “As a result of our unprecedented sanctions, the ruble has fallen almost immediately into ruins. The Russian economy is well on its way to halving. It was ranked the 11th largest economy in the world before this invasion – and soon, they will not even be ranked. among the top 20 “. Then 34 minutes passed before Biden said that the Russian people “are not the enemy.” “To the Russian people: You are not our enemy. The American people stand by you and the brave people of Ukraine who want peace.” His tweets about damage control came quickly and furiously, from “We are here for the people of Ukraine” to talking about how much money the United States has sent to arms in Ukraine and how much more is on the way. Some of his tweets were excerpts from his speech on Saturday, along with videos. The tweets were still circulating around 9:30 pm on Saturday night, long after the end of his speech and the White House backtracked on the comments. The war in Ukraine has entered its second month since Russia invaded their neighboring country.
