{"id":1405259,"date":"2022-03-28T16:00:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1405259"},"modified":"2022-03-28T16:00:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T20:00:16","slug":"once-admired-biden-rebuked-by-bbc-for-dangerous-russian-regime-change-gaffe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/once-admired-biden-rebuked-by-bbc-for-dangerous-russian-regime-change-gaffe\/","title":{"rendered":"Once-Admired Biden Rebuked by BBC for &#039;Dangerous&#039; Russian Regime Change Gaffe"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fonce-admired-biden-rebuked-by-bbc-for-dangerous-russian-regime-change-gaffe%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=1405259&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><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">U.S. President Joe Biden has earned a rebuke from the once-admiring British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for his \u201cdangerous\u201d remarks on Russian regime change.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden, once popular with the left-liberal-leaning British and European media, earned a thinly-veiled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-60895392\">dressing down<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2019\/09\/22\/bbc-veteran-kremlin-style-bbc-thought-police-want-to-mould-uk-in-liberal-lefts-image\/\">notionally<\/a> impartial BBC for recent \u201cseries of unscripted remarks that have upped the temperature of US-Russia relations to near boiling point.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The 79-year-old Democrat\u2019s biggest gaffe took place at a speech in Poland, in which he gave every appearance of issuing an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/26\/poland-joe-biden-demands-vladimir-putin-removed-power\/\">unambiguous call for regime chang<\/a>e when he said of Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin: \u201cFor God\u2019s sake, this man cannot remain in power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The comment was reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/27\/reports-joe-bidens-call-for-regime-change-in-russia-not-part-of-prepared-speech\/\">not in Biden\u2019s prepared speech<\/a>, and sent White House officials scrambling to \u201cclarify\u201d his remarks, claiming somewhat unconvincingly that his \u201cpoint was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbours or the region\u201d and that he \u201cwas not discussing Putin\u2019s power in Russia, or regime change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When later confronted on the issue in person by a reporter who shouted\u00a0\u201cMr President, do you want Putin removed? Mr President, were you calling for regime change?\u201d the U.S. leader had to reply \u201cNo\u201d before scurrying into the presidential limousine.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;I would not use [Biden&#8217;s] words,&#8221; Macron said, insisting &#8220;everything must be done to stop the situation from escalating&#8221;  to achieve &#8220;first a ceasefire and then the total withdrawal of [Russian] troops by diplomatic means&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/crtVryYG6L\">https:\/\/t.co\/crtVryYG6L<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1508066522463412227?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe speed with which the U.S. issued its \u2018clarification\u2019 \u2014 later echoed by [U.S. Secretary of State Antony] Blinken \u2014 suggests the U.S. understands the danger inherent in Mr Biden\u2019s words,\u201d the BBC observed in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-60895392\">article<\/a> analysing the fiasco.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a line between condemning a nation\u2019s leader \u2014 the sometimes overheated rhetoric of diplomacy \u2014 and calling for his removal. It was a line both the Americans and the Soviets respected even at the height of the Cold War. And it is a line that Mr Biden had apparently crossed,\u201d the BBC observed.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the Kremlin\u2019s response to Biden\u2019s ill-chosen words was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/kremlin-says-its-not-biden-say-if-putin-stays-power-2022-03-26\/\">sharp<\/a>, with a spokesman snapping that it was \u201cnot for Biden to decide\u201d who governs Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The President of the State Duma branded the U.S. leader \u201cweak, sick, and unhappy\u201d and suggested he should \u201cundergo a medical examination,\u201d with the head of Roscosmos \u2014 Russia\u2019s equivalent of NASA \u2014 similarly quipping that the retraction of the regime change remarks had been issued by the \u201cWhite House Medical Unit\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC noted that Biden\u2019s latest gaffe had caused ructions in Europe \u2014 with France\u2019s Emmanuel Macron, in particular, saying he would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/03\/27\/i-would-not-use-those-words-macron-criticises-bidens-anti-putin-rhetoric-as-undermining-chance-of-peace\/\">not have used<\/a> the Democrat\u2019s words and that they risked undermining peace talks \u2014 and that he had a history of having \u201cderailed past presidential bids and occasionally frustrated Obama administration officials when he was vice-president\u201d with unguarded comments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[I]f the Russian leader believes his power is at stake, and believes the US is not-so-secretly making that an objective of its efforts, the turn the crisis takes from here may not be one toward peace,\u201d the broadcaster cautioned.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden\u2019s quip prompted administration officials to scramble and walk back his comment, in an effort to reassure the world that the United States was not calling for regime change in Russia. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2zMYYBvr3Z\">https:\/\/t.co\/2zMYYBvr3Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1508126059010551812?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Jack Montgomery on Twitter:<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>@JackBM<\/span><\/a><\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>ontgomery<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Joe Biden has earned a rebuke from the once-admiring British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for his \u201cdangerous\u201d remarks on Russian regime change. 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