Breitbart
France’s President Emmanuel Macron has criticised America’s President Joe Biden for calling Vladimir Putin “a butcher” and saying he “cannot remain in power”, warning that the chances of a ceasefire and peace through diplomatic means are undermined by such escalating rhetoric.
President Biden, 79, recently branded the Russian leader “a butcher” in offhand comments to journalists in Poland, later declaiming “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power” at a speech in the country’s capital.
This marked the first time the U.S. leader had issued an apparently unambiguous call for regime change in Moscow — although the White House later argued, somewhat unconvincingly, that “[Biden’s] point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbours or the region,” and that he “was not discussing Putin’s power in Russia, or regime change.”
France’s Emmanuel Macron, who is likely the European Union’s leading politician now Angela Merkel has exited the stage as Chancellor of Germany, has now publicly criticised the Democrat’s statements on Putin, suggesting he is escalating tensions and making a diplomatic solution to the Ukrainian crisis harder to achieve.
