This Man Cannot Remain In Power Biden Denounces Putin In Fiery Speech In Poland

The US president initially seemed to call for an end to the Russian president’s regime in what would be tantamount to a dramatic change in US foreign policy, but the White House quickly dismissed his comments and insisted he did not explicitly call for his ouster. Putin. . “In the name of God, this man can not stay in power,” Biden said in a speech in Warsaw, against the backdrop of the walls of Warsaw Royal Castle. It came as the city of Lviv in western Ukraine, 400 kilometers away, was pounded by Russian missiles, possibly marking a new front in the Moscow invasion. A White House spokesman later said Biden meant only that “Putin is not allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region.” The Kremlin rejected the US president’s comment, saying that “it was not Biden’s decision”. Mr Biden, only the second US Catholic president, opened his remarks by referring to Polish-born Pope John Paul II, a man widely regarded in his homeland as a supporter of oppressive Soviet communism. Biden said John Paul’s words “do not be afraid”, which opened his first public remarks with the papacy, were a message Europeans could look to to “overcome the cruelty and barbarism” of war. that Putin unleashed. Ukraine a little over a month ago. Russian invasion of Ukraine: follow live updates The president’s speech marked the end of a four-day swing in Europe that began on Thursday with an emergency NATO summit in Brussels. Earlier in the day, Biden met with Polish President Andrei Duda for a bilateral meeting after talks with two top Ukrainian defense officials and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Biden then traveled to a Warsaw stadium that has become a reception center and shelter for many of the Ukrainian migrants who have flocked to the Polish border in hopes of escaping Russian forces. The president was visibly moved by a meeting he had there with a family of refugees – a mother and daughter from Mariupol – who told him through a translator that their city was being “erased from the face of the earth” by Mr Putin’s troops. he was afraid he would continue to move on. The mother, who said her husband and son were staying in Ukraine to fight, told Biden that Ukrainian mothers were “ready to strangle” Putin with their bare hands if they could only point out his whereabouts. . “I’ve been to a lot of awful places like this, to a lot of refugee camps in my life, and what always amazes me is the depth and power of the human spirit,” Biden said. US President Joe Biden, accompanied by Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, holds a child as he visits Ukrainian refugees at the PGE National Stadium in Warsaw, Poland. (Reuters) Asked what his thoughts were on what Putin had done to the people of Ukraine, he replied: “He is a butcher.” Hours later, outside the Royal Castle, Biden told the huge crowd that had gathered to hear him that Ukraine and its people were now “at the forefront” of what he described as part of the “eternal struggle for democracy and freedom.” . adding that their resistance to the Russian invasion is now part of a broader struggle for democracy and freedom against totalitarianism and repression. “The rule of law, fair and free elections, freedom of speech, writing and assembly, freedom to worship as one chooses, freedom of the press – these freedoms are essential to a free society. “But it was always under siege,” he said. Noting that “every generation” had to fight against the “moral enemies of democracy”, he explicitly linked Ukraine’s struggle against Russia with previous uprisings against Soviet rule in Eastern Europe. “Today’s struggle in Kyiv and Mariupol and Kharkov is the last battle in a long struggle,” he said, comparing them to the anti-communist resistance in Hungary in 1956, Poland in 1956 and 1981 and the former Czechoslovakia in 1968. And although the president noted how these uprisings were crushed under the pressure of Soviet tanks, he stressed that resistance to communism continued until 1989, when the Berlin Wall “and all the walls of Soviet sovereignty” fell “and the people prevailed. ». But Biden said the war for democracy continued as dictatorship forces “revived” the three decades since the end of the Cold War, led by Putin, who said he had plans to “strangle democracy” in Ukraine. . has made in Russia, with “false allegations of ethnic solidarity.” The president denounced Putin’s “lies” to justify the invasion of Ukraine as an expression of how the Russian leader “has the audacity to believe he may be right.” Drawing on previous American conflicts, Biden then quoted Abraham Lincoln as saying, urging Europeans to “believe that the right holds power”. “Let us decide to put the power of democracies into action to overthrow the plans of authoritarianism,” he said, adding that Mr Putin – a “criminal” – has falsely claimed that NATO’s eastward expansion in the decades since its fall Communism was “an imperial plan aimed at destabilizing Russia.” “Nothing is further from the truth,” he said, reiterating NATO’s description of itself as a “defense alliance” that “never sought to overthrow Russia.” The president described in detail the myriad negotiations and “concrete proposals” offered to Mr Putin in the run-up to his invasion over months, including requests from Mr Biden himself. President Biden (right) and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (second right) meet with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba (second left) and Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov (left) in Warsaw (Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty) Biden said any good faith proposal was met with “lies and ultimatums” because Putin had “decided by force from the beginning” and described Russia’s aggression as “nothing more than a direct challenge to a rule-based international order.” since the end of World War II, which threatens to return Europe to the “decades of war” that tore it apart before the implementation of this rule-based order. He further warned Mr Putin against any move against Poland or any other former Soviet republic that is now part of NATO: “Do not even think about moving an inch into NATO territory.” Although Biden hailed the unity enjoyed by NATO nations since Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine, he urged Europeans to “do the hard work of democracy every day” and said he had come to Europe to give a “clear and unequivocal” decisive message to NATO, the G7, the European Union and “all nations that love freedom”. The message, he said, is that “they must commit now” to being in the struggle for democracy “for the long term.” “We must remain united today and tomorrow, the day after tomorrow for years and decades to come. “It will not be easy,” Biden said. “There will be costs, but it is a price we have to pay. “Because the darkness that leads to totalitarianism does not ultimately match the flame of freedom that illuminates the souls of free people everywhere.” Calling the defense of democracy – and Ukraine’s defense against Russia – “the task of our time”, Mr Biden urged Europeans to remember “the blow of the hammer that knocked down the Berlin Wall” and “the light that has risen”. the Iron Curtain “is the work of the whole of Europe, of the people who fought to free themselves from totalitarianism. “It was an unquestionable, unquestionable force of the people that the Soviet Union could not withstand, and we see it once again today in the brave Ukrainian people, showing that the power of their money is greater than the will of any dictator. ” he said. “A dictator, a man who rebuilds an empire, will never extinguish the love of the people for freedom. Barbarism will never stifle their desire to be free. “Ukraine will never be a victory for Russia,” he said. “For free people who refuse to live in a world of despair and darkness, they will have a different future – a brighter future – rooted in democracy, in the principles of hope and light, in dignity and dignity, in freedom and in opportunity.” . “In the name of God,” he concluded, “this man can not remain in power.”

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The US president initially seemed to call for an end to the Russian president’s regime in what would be tantamount to a dramatic change in US foreign policy, but the White House quickly dismissed his comments and insisted he did not explicitly call for his ouster. Putin. . “In the name of God, this man can not stay in power,” Biden said in a speech in Warsaw, against the backdrop of the walls of Warsaw Royal Castle. It came as the city of Lviv in western Ukraine, 400 kilometers away, was pounded by Russian missiles, possibly marking a new front in the Moscow invasion. A White House spokesman later said Biden meant only that “Putin is not allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region.” The Kremlin rejected the US president’s comment, saying that “it was not Biden’s decision”. Mr Biden, only the second US Catholic president, opened his remarks by referring to Polish-born Pope John Paul II, a man widely regarded in his homeland as a supporter of oppressive Soviet communism. Biden said John Paul’s words “do not be afraid”, which opened his first public remarks with the papacy, were a message Europeans could look to to “overcome the cruelty and barbarism” of war. that Putin unleashed. Ukraine a little over a month ago. Russian invasion of Ukraine: follow live updates The president’s speech marked the end of a four-day swing in Europe that began on Thursday with an emergency NATO summit in Brussels. Earlier in the day, Biden met with Polish President Andrei Duda for a bilateral meeting after talks with two top Ukrainian defense officials and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Biden then traveled to a Warsaw stadium that has become a reception center and shelter for many of the Ukrainian migrants who have flocked to the Polish border in hopes of escaping Russian forces. The president was visibly moved by a meeting he had there with a family of refugees – a mother and daughter from Mariupol – who told him through a translator that their city was being “erased from the face of the earth” by Mr Putin’s troops. he was afraid he would continue to move on. The mother, who said her husband and son were staying in Ukraine to fight, told Biden that Ukrainian mothers were “ready to strangle” Putin with their bare hands if they could only point out his whereabouts. . “I’ve been to a lot of awful places like this, to a lot of refugee camps in my life, and what always amazes me is the depth and power of the human spirit,” Biden said. US President Joe Biden, accompanied by Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, holds a child as he visits Ukrainian refugees at the PGE National Stadium in Warsaw, Poland. (Reuters) Asked what his thoughts were on what Putin had done to the people of Ukraine, he replied: “He is a butcher.” Hours later, outside the Royal Castle, Biden told the huge crowd that had gathered to hear him that Ukraine and its people were now “at the forefront” of what he described as part of the “eternal struggle for democracy and freedom.” . adding that their resistance to the Russian invasion is now part of a broader struggle for democracy and freedom against totalitarianism and repression. “The rule of law, fair and free elections, freedom of speech, writing and assembly, freedom to worship as one chooses, freedom of the press – these freedoms are essential to a free society. “But it was always under siege,” he said. Noting that “every generation” had to fight against the “moral enemies of democracy”, he explicitly linked Ukraine’s struggle against Russia with previous uprisings against Soviet rule in Eastern Europe. “Today’s struggle in Kyiv and Mariupol and Kharkov is the last battle in a long struggle,” he said, comparing them to the anti-communist resistance in Hungary in 1956, Poland in 1956 and 1981 and the former Czechoslovakia in 1968. And although the president noted how these uprisings were crushed under the pressure of Soviet tanks, he stressed that resistance to communism continued until 1989, when the Berlin Wall “and all the walls of Soviet sovereignty” fell “and the people prevailed. ». But Biden said the war for democracy continued as dictatorship forces “revived” the three decades since the end of the Cold War, led by Putin, who said he had plans to “strangle democracy” in Ukraine. . has made in Russia, with “false allegations of ethnic solidarity.” The president denounced Putin’s “lies” to justify the invasion of Ukraine as an expression of how the Russian leader “has the audacity to believe he may be right.” Drawing on previous American conflicts, Biden then quoted Abraham Lincoln as saying, urging Europeans to “believe that the right holds power”. “Let us decide to put the power of democracies into action to overthrow the plans of authoritarianism,” he said, adding that Mr Putin – a “criminal” – has falsely claimed that NATO’s eastward expansion in the decades since its fall Communism was “an imperial plan aimed at destabilizing Russia.” “Nothing is further from the truth,” he said, reiterating NATO’s description of itself as a “defense alliance” that “never sought to overthrow Russia.” The president described in detail the myriad negotiations and “concrete proposals” offered to Mr Putin in the run-up to his invasion over months, including requests from Mr Biden himself. President Biden (right) and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (second right) meet with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba (second left) and Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov (left) in Warsaw (Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty) Biden said any good faith proposal was met with “lies and ultimatums” because Putin had “decided by force from the beginning” and described Russia’s aggression as “nothing more than a direct challenge to a rule-based international order.” since the end of World War II, which threatens to return Europe to the “decades of war” that tore it apart before the implementation of this rule-based order. He further warned Mr Putin against any move against Poland or any other former Soviet republic that is now part of NATO: “Do not even think about moving an inch into NATO territory.” Although Biden hailed the unity enjoyed by NATO nations since Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine, he urged Europeans to “do the hard work of democracy every day” and said he had come to Europe to give a “clear and unequivocal” decisive message to NATO, the G7, the European Union and “all nations that love freedom”. The message, he said, is that “they must commit now” to being in the struggle for democracy “for the long term.” “We must remain united today and tomorrow, the day after tomorrow for years and decades to come. “It will not be easy,” Biden said. “There will be costs, but it is a price we have to pay. “Because the darkness that leads to totalitarianism does not ultimately match the flame of freedom that illuminates the souls of free people everywhere.” Calling the defense of democracy – and Ukraine’s defense against Russia – “the task of our time”, Mr Biden urged Europeans to remember “the blow of the hammer that knocked down the Berlin Wall” and “the light that has risen”. the Iron Curtain “is the work of the whole of Europe, of the people who fought to free themselves from totalitarianism. “It was an unquestionable, unquestionable force of the people that the Soviet Union could not withstand, and we see it once again today in the brave Ukrainian people, showing that the power of their money is greater than the will of any dictator. ” he said. “A dictator, a man who rebuilds an empire, will never extinguish the love of the people for freedom. Barbarism will never stifle their desire to be free. “Ukraine will never be a victory for Russia,” he said. “For free people who refuse to live in a world of despair and darkness, they will have a different future – a brighter future – rooted in democracy, in the principles of hope and light, in dignity and dignity, in freedom and in opportunity.” . “In the name of God,” he concluded, “this man can not remain in power.”