Dismissing Moderate Voices, Biden Emerges As Putin's Accuser-In-Chief
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Going further than any top administration official had, Joe Biden characterized Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilians for the first time as "genocide," a heavily-loaded term that both he and the administration had been avoiding.
A "war criminal" and "butcher" who "cannot remain in power": over recent weeks, US President Joe Biden has made a series of unscripted remarks that have raised the temperature in his relations with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
But Biden's ad-libbed line during what was billed as a speech on biofuels and helping Americans with the cost of living in Iowa Tuesday may have cut the deepest.
Going further than any top administration official had, Biden characterized Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilians for the first time as "genocide", a heavily-loaded term that both he and the administration had been avoiding.
The White House, as it had in the past, anticipated having to clean up the remark later and prepped journalists behind the scenes that a clarification would be coming -- but, notably, none has.
