{"id":1403251,"date":"2022-03-27T16:44:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T20:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1403251"},"modified":"2022-03-27T16:44:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T20:44:40","slug":"we-should-not-escalate-french-president-complains-after-biden-calls-putin-a-butcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-should-not-escalate-french-president-complains-after-biden-calls-putin-a-butcher\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We Should Not Escalate\u2019: French President Complains After Biden Calls Putin A \u2018Butcher\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwe-should-not-escalate-french-president-complains-after-biden-calls-putin-a-butcher%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1403251&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1239487569.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>French President Emmanuel Macron lamented President Joe Biden\u2019s choice of words during an interview, arguing that it could be escalatory to call Russian President Vladimir Putin out directly over multiple reports of war crimes in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Reporting site Visegrad 24 tweeted video of Macron along with the caption, \u201cMacron is criticizing Biden for calling Putin \u2018a butcher.\u2019 The French president says it\u2019s not constructive. \u2018I would not use that kind of language. If a ceasefire is to be brokered, we must not escalate \u2014 neither through words nor actions.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING:<\/p>\n<p>Macron is criticizing Biden for calling Putin \u201ca butcher\u201d. The French president says it\u2019s not constructive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would not use that kind of language. If a ceasefire is to be brokered, we must not escalate \u2014 neither through words nor actions.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/REzBTzJWc5\">pic.twitter.com\/REzBTzJWc5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Visegr\u00e1d 24 (@visegrad24) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visegrad24\/status\/1508047812134645763?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Macron appeared to be suggesting that it was more important to keep an open dialogue with Putin than to be forthright about the actions he has either permitted or expressly ordered as his occupation forces <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/biden-joins-emergency-nato-talks-as-ukraine-war-enters-second-month\/\">continue their invasion<\/a> of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMacron warned against calling Putin a \u2018butcher.\u2019 \u2018I wouldn\u2019t use terms like that because I\u2019m still in talks with President Putin,\u2019 the French President said during an interview. Prior, U.S. President Joe Biden called Putin a \u2018butcher,\u2019 a \u2018murderous dictator\u2019 &#038; \u2018a pure thug,&#8217;\u201d the Kyiv Independent reported.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u26a1\ufe0f Macron warned against calling Putin a &#8216;butcher.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t use terms like that because I\u2019m still in talks with President Putin,\u201d the French President said during an interview.<\/p>\n<p>Prior, U.S. President Joe Biden called Putin a \u201cbutcher,\u201d a \u201cmurderous dictator\u201d &#038; \u201ca pure thug.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KyivIndependent\/status\/1508082405239934977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Garry Kasparov immediately <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kasparov63\/status\/1508097371514753030\">ripped into Macron<\/a>, saying, \u201cApparently Macron will never realize that the problem isn\u2019t accurately calling Putin what he is, but that he\u2019s still in talks with him no matter how many war crimes he commits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went on to suggest that Macron ought to make his next statement effectively appeasing Putin from the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/we-were-surrounded-ap-journalist-details-harrowing-escape-from-besieged-city-of-mariupol\/\">nearly-destroyed<\/a> port city of Mariupol \u2014 where Russian troops fired on a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/twitter-deletes-russian-embassy-u-k-tweets-claiming-maternity-hospital-was-staged\/\">maternity hospital<\/a> and a theater that was <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/report-300-dead-in-russian-airstrike-on-mariupol-theater\/\">clearly marked<\/a> as a shelter housing children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMacron should have his next humiliating chat with Putin in Mariupol. Engagement with a dictator is a loss of leverage and a show of weakness. Pressure comes from isolation, which targets Putin\u2019s hold on power, the only thing he cares about,\u201d Kasparov <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kasparov63\/status\/1508108712203988993\">tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if you think your goals are pure, like getting humanitarian aid into Ukraine, groveling before Putin is never going to be the most effective way to achieve them,\u201d Kasparov continued. \u201cIt gives him more chips to gamble with. Then he\u2019ll take more hostages to gain more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDictatorship are sociopaths, narcissists. They see only what helps them,\u201d he concluded. \u201c\u2018I bombed entire cities full of innocents to the ground and foreign leaders are still coming to beg for my help. I am powerful and should continue bombing.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Macron was not the only one to criticize Biden for remarks he made while meeting with NATO allies in Europe \u2014 but most of the president\u2019s critics were not terribly concerned that Biden had called Putin a \u201cbutcher.\u201d They were more concerned that he may have <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/white-house-rushes-to-clean-up-disastrous-remarks-biden-made-about-putin-during-speech\/\">verbally slipped<\/a> his way into escalating tensions by suggesting that American troops might go to Ukraine, that NATO was ready to retaliate with chemical weapons if Russia used them first, and that he might be advocating <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/chatter-of-25th-amendment-erupts-after-biden-ramps-up-escalation-talk-on-russia-white-house-bats-cleanup\/\">regime change<\/a> in Russia.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French President Emmanuel Macron lamented President Joe Biden\u2019s choice of words during an interview, arguing that it could be escalatory to call Russian President Vladimir Putin out directly over multiple<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1403251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}