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Joe Biden’s involuntary gift to Russian propaganda – Pierre Haski

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Joe Biden’s involuntary gift to Russian propaganda – Pierre Haski

A president should never utter such phrases. On two occasions, during his visit to Poland, Joe Biden pronounced words that certainly express his thoughts, but which do not help at all in the explosive context of the war in Ukraine. Biden called Vladimir Putin a “butcher”, before adding a sentence that was not included in the text of his speech: “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power!”.

The White House immediately backtracked by claiming that the president had not said what he had undoubtedly said, which is that he would like regime change in Moscow. Biden’s phrases are a gift to Russian propaganda, which for over a decade has reiterated the accusation that the United States would like to force a regime change in Russia and the Ukrainians would be the instrument of this maneuver.

Biden’s two outings clearly appear as two gaffes, also because since the beginning of the war, last February 24, the United States and its allies have tried not to seem “cobelligerent” against Russia and not to be drawn into a a conflict that Biden himself fears could turn into World War III.

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There is no doubt that the offending sentences express the real thinking of Biden and of many people who observe the images of the catastrophe in Ukraine and of the millions of refugees. However, Putin’s exit cannot be an objective of Western strategy, especially if, as the now consecrated formula states, the West wants to “win this war without fighting it”.

Putin can only be overthrown by the Russian people, or more likely a part of the political-military apparatus, both elements over which Westerners have no hold. Calling for Putin’s dismissal, among other things, has the opposite effect in a context of total information control in Russia.

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On March 27, French President Emmanuel Macron took pains to distance himself from Biden’s departure, stressing that he would not use that kind of expression. In this way, Macron also wanted to protect his role as Putin’s privileged Western interlocutor, despite the risks that this entails.

Dialogue with Putin serves above all to keep a channel for discussion open, even in the absence of results, in the hope that one day Putin will be ready to really discuss. Macron acts with the support of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskii, who pragmatically asks for a meeting with his Russian colleague, a proposal so far rejected.

In all this Macron should call Putin in the next few hours to organize the humanitarian evacuation of Mariupol, a martyr city in southern Ukraine.

The agitation provoked by Biden’s words is significant of the particular moment in which we find ourselves, under the emotional and political pressure of a war that no one expected. Everyone wants to live up to the heroism shown by the Ukrainians, who managed to thwart Putin’s plans. And not just in words.

(Translation by Andrea Sparacino)

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