Biden made “a very clear speech, he used resolute words,” Mr. Biden had used words “that must make Putin clearly understand that he has to stop,” Italy’s foreign minister, Luigi Di Maio, said on Saturday night. Most of the reaction on Sunday did not seem to significantly undermine the administration’s relationship with allies that have joined in issuing sanctions against Russia.
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Representative Michael McCaul of Texas, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, suggested the impromptu comment threatened to overshadow the discussions over how to continue to assist Ukraine in its fight against Russia. “The administration has done everything they can to stop escalating - there’s not a whole lot more you can do to escalate than to call for a regime change,” he told CNN’s “State of the Union.” “In this case, as in any case, it’s up to the people of the country in question. Blinken said in Jerusalem after meeting with Israel’s foreign minister, Yair Lapid. “We do not have a strategy of regime change in Russia or anywhere else, for that matter,” Secretary of State Antony J. Biden’s staff felt as if it had little choice but to play down the off-the-cuff comment. Taken literally, the remark meant the United States would be reversing a policy of not pushing for regime change. The White House has tried to ensure that each step taken against Russia is in line with European allies. Biden’s aides worried that his surprising remark might roil some of those allies the president was determined to keep unified. Biden’s unscripted moment, the speech had largely achieved its intended goals, lawmakers, allies and foreign policy experts said. Putin not to move “on one single inch” of NATO territory, a message of support for allies that the administration had intended to be one of the main takeaways from the address, according to officials. Biden raised his voice when he warned Mr.
Biden spent most of the speech summarizing the penalties his administration had imposed on Russia and its efforts to support refugees, while asserting that even though the United States would not send troops to Ukraine, it was prepared to defend NATO allies. “If we want to do this, we mustn’t escalate,” he said, “neither with words nor with actions.” He said he hoped to obtain a cease-fire and the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine through diplomacy. “I wouldn’t use this kind of words,” President Emmanuel Macron of France said in a television interview on Sunday, when asked to comment on Mr.
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