White House tiptoes around President JoeBiden's claim Putin is a 'rational actor'
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre declined to give additional background to President Joe Biden's claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a"rational actor" who"miscalculated" how the Ukraine war would go.
Jean-Pierre faced several questions Wednesday about Biden's comments, which were made during a Tuesday evening interview on CNN, to which she pointed to Biden's more than 40 years of experience in foreign policy."This is a place, an arena if you will, that he knows very well," she stated."The president was very clear when he said that Putin was a rational actor who badly miscalculated, and we've talked about why he badly miscalculated.
Jean-Pierre cited a"stronger NATO" uniting behind Ukraine as a core pillar of Putin's miscalculation but did not specify why Biden called him a"rational actor." "I'm just going to let his words stand," she said in one follow-up response."He said, the president's words, he's a rational actor who badly miscalculated. He miscalculated what his aggression, what his war that he created against Ukraine would lead to, and we've seen that Putin has become a pariah."You can listen to Wednesday's gaggle in full below.
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