{"id":1957662,"date":"2023-06-26T19:54:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T23:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-says-u-s-wont-take-sides-in-russias-wagner-uprising\/"},"modified":"2023-06-26T19:55:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T23:55:03","slug":"white-house-says-u-s-wont-take-sides-in-russias-wagner-uprising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-says-u-s-wont-take-sides-in-russias-wagner-uprising\/","title":{"rendered":"White House: U.S. Remains Neutral in Russia&#8217;s Wagner Uprising"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fwhite-house-says-u-s-wont-take-sides-in-russias-wagner-uprising%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=1957662&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--><h2>The United States Remains Neutral in Wagner Group&#8217;s Uprising in Russia<\/h2>\n<p>The United States is not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rnc-takes-legal-action-to-stop-pennsylvania-from-permanently-loosening-mail-in-ballot-rules\/\" title=\"RNC Takes Legal Action To Stop Pennsylvania From Permanently Loosening Mail-In Ballot Rules\">picking favorites<\/a> in the Wagner Group&#8217;s uprising in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia<\/a>, a top White House official said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>John Kirby, the coordinator for Strategic Communications at the National Security Council, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/miller-president-trump-considering-trip-to-southern-border\/\" title=\"Miller: President Trump considering trip to southern border\">briefed reporters<\/a> after President Joe Biden said his administration had &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cspan\/status\/1673366633027629056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nothing to do<\/a>&#8221; with the revolt.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Is the president at all disappointed that \u2026 Vladimir Putin&#8217;s still in power?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>KIRBY: &#8220;We&#8217;re not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-to-investigate-retail-day-traders-for-possible-market-manipulation\/\" title=\"DOJ to investigate retail day traders for possible market manipulation\">taking sides<\/a> in this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-mocks-and-attacks-the-united-states-on-u-s-soil-biden-admin-struggles-to-respond\/\" title=\"China Mocks And Attacks The United States On U.S. Soil; Biden Admin Struggles To Respond\">internal matter<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He did say, though, in March 2022, &#8216;For God&#8217;s sake, this man cannot remain in power\u2026'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>KIRBY: &#8220;Regime change is not our policy&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GYj9p6FzZ8\">pic.twitter.com\/GYj9p6FzZ8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1673398731121790976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Supporting Ukraine Amidst the Uprising<\/h3>\n<p>Kirby, a retired Navy rear admiral, deflected a question about whether Biden is disappointed that Russian President Vladimir Putin is still in power, saying Biden remains focused on supporting Ukraine in its fight to ward off a Russian invasion.<\/p>\n<p>When a reporter noted that Biden himself said during a March 2022 speech in Warsaw that Putin &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/03\/26\/politics\/biden-warsaw-saturday\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cannot remain in power<\/a>,&#8221; Kirby said &#8220;regime change is not our policy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the center of the uprising are the Wagner mercenaries, who appear to be in a standoff with Russia&#8217;s military leadership and their handling of the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Wagner troops began a march toward Moscow up until the Kremlin announced a deal on Saturday in which Russia would <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/politics\/1637957\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drop<\/a> a criminal case against group&#8217;s leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and would allow him to travel to Belarus. By Monday, Putin delivered an address in which he said the organizers of the rebellion would be &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/06\/26\/putin-says-russia-mutiny-organizers-will-face-justice.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">brought to justice<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During the White House press briefing on Monday, Kirby said he did not know of Prigozhin&#8217;s whereabouts and declined to get into hypotheticals when asked if Putin was the preferred Russian head of state or an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-says-u-s-wont-take-sides-in-russias-wagner-uprising\/\" title=\"White House: U.S. Remains Neutral in Russia's Wagner Uprising\">alternative leader picked<\/a> by the Wagner group.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe it&#8217;s up to the Russian people to determine who their leadership is, and we would prefer to see Russia not invade their neighboring countries,&#8221; Kirby <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?528986-1\/white-house-daily-briefing\">said<\/a>, again alluding to the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration made it clear to allies as well as the Russian government through diplomatic channels that the United States &#8220;was not involved and would not get involved in these events and that we view them as internal Russian matters,&#8221; Kirby said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll emphasize, as the president did just a little bit ago, that it&#8217;s too early to speculate on the impact these events might have or to reach any definitive conclusions except one,&#8221; Kirby said, &#8220;and that is that no matter what happens next, we&#8217;re going to stay closely coordinated with those allies and partners, and we&#8217;re going to continue to stand with Ukraine.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the Wagner Group&#8217;s uprising in Russia,&#8221; stated a senior White House official. John Kirby, from the National Security Council, clarified that President Biden&#8217;s administration had no involvement in the revolt. He emphasized that the United States remains impartial and does not favor any party in the conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1957663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1957662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957662","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\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1957662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1957663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1957662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1957662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1957662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}