Joe Biden said on Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is an “outcast” who is “clearly losing” the war in Ukraine, although the American president said it was too early to tell if his Russian counterpart was through Wagner’s failure was weakened by rebellion.
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When asked by White House reporters if Vladimir Putin was now weakened, Joe Biden replied, “It’s hard to say, but he’s clearly losing the war.”
The Russian president is now “a pariah around the world,” he added.
Joe Biden nonetheless pointed out that Russia lost the war in “Iraq” and not the war in Ukraine, a slip he made at a campaign meeting on Tuesday.
The American President then claimed that he had succeeded in uniting Western countries against Moscow’s “attack” “on Iraq”.
Joe Biden, a candidate for re-election in 2024, is accustomed to making mistakes that are systematically acknowledged by his most vicious Republican opponents, who see them as a sign of mental retardation.
The White House has remained cautious about the fallout from Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin’s failed mutiny in Russia last weekend, in which his men seized military bases and marched on Moscow before suddenly collapsing.