Joe Biden mentioned that Putin is a usually rational actor who miscalculated considerably.
Washington:
US President Joe Biden mentioned Tuesday he believes his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin is a usually rational actor who badly misjudged his prospects of occupying Ukraine.
The president spoke out in a uncommon televised interview as his administration seems for what he has described as an “off-ramp” for Putin to deescalate his invasion of Ukraine earlier than he resorts to weapons of mass destruction.
“I believe he’s a rational actor who has miscalculated considerably,” Biden advised CNN after Moscow’s shelling of civilian targets throughout its neighbor marked an escalation within the seven-month battle.
Biden warned final week that the world dangers “Armageddon” in unusually direct remarks in regards to the risks from Putin’s thinly veiled threats to make use of nuclear weapons to help Russia’s faltering try and take over swaths of Ukraine.
Putin’s frame of mind has been the topic of a lot debate after the Russian president suffered a sequence of latest navy set-backs within the invasion, which he launched in February.
In remarks launched by CNN forward of its broadcast of the interview later Tuesday, Biden mentioned that whereas he believed Putin himself was rational, he had underestimated the ferocity of Ukrainian defiance within the face of invasion.
“I believe… he thought he was going to be welcomed with open arms, that this was the house of Mom Russia in Kyiv, and that the place he was going to be welcomed, and I believe he simply completely miscalculated,” Biden mentioned.
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