US President, Joe Biden, explained that by saying that Vladimir Putin should not remain the president of russia, he expressed his outrage and not US policy towards the russian president.
This was reported by The New York Times.
"I expressed the moral outrage I felt about this man," - President Biden said, adding that no one should have interpreted his comments as a call for Putin's resignation. - This is nonsense. No one believes that I talked about removing Putin. Nobody believes this. "
"The last thing I want to do is take part in a ground or nuclear war with russia," he said. "I expressed my indignation at this man's behavior. This is outrageous. Such people should not rule countries, but the fact that they do does not mean that I cannot express my indignation."
President Biden's statement came two days after he said in a speech in Warsaw: "For God's sake, this man cannot stay in power."
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the United States "has no strategy for regime change in russia or anywhere else."