President Biden informed US troops in Poland Friday that they are going to witness the bravery of Ukrainians preventing off Russia’s invasion “when you’re there” — making a major gaffe after he beforehand mentioned the US should keep out of the European battle to keep away from triggering “World War III.”
Biden made the comment whereas addressing members of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division after lunching on pizza and posing for selfies with dozens of paratroopers at a large number corridor in Rzeszow, southeastern Poland.
“You’re going to see when you’re there, and some of you have been there, you’re gonna see — you’re gonna see women, young people standing in the middle in front of a damned tank just saying, ‘I’m not leaving, I’m holding my ground,’” Biden mentioned.
A White House official shortly clarified that Biden wasn’t altering his stance on deploying the army into Ukraine.
“The president has been clear we are not sending US troops to Ukraine and there is no change in that position,” a Biden spokesman informed The Post.
Biden additionally mentioned throughout his remarks that the US was working to “keep the massacre from continuing” after greater than 3.7 million Ukrainians fled their nation in the course of the month-old war.
The Biden administration has equipped arms to Ukraine’s beleaguered army, however the president personally nixed a Polish proposal to switch 28 Soviet-designed fighter jets to Ukraine with US assist. Biden mentioned that US facilitation of the transaction might set off a brand new world war.
Although Biden spoke as if US troops had been heading into Ukraine, he repeatedly dominated out that chance in prior public remarks.
It’s not the primary time that Biden made an imprecise comment throughout his third journey overseas as president. During a 19-minute press convention in Belgium, Biden mentioned Thursday that the US response to Russian troops utilizing chemical weapons “would depend on the nature of the use” — then turned heads by saying the US would reply “in kind.”
White House nationwide safety adviser Jake Sullivan informed reporters Friday aboard Air Force One that Biden’s “in kind” comment was not meant as a risk of the US utilizing chemical weapons towards Russia.
“The United States has no intention of using chemical weapons, period, under any circumstance,” Sullivan mentioned.
