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Analysis: How Biden's 9 unscripted words could impact the war in Ukraine
Analysis from CNN's Stephen Collinson
Just nine unscripted words put an already jittery world on edge again.
US President Joe Biden's suggestion in Poland on Saturday that Russian President Vladimir Putin's onslaught on Ukraine should disqualify him from power triggered an international political storm.
Back in Washington Sunday evening, Biden told reporters that he was not calling for regime change in Russia — echoing a message spelled out multiple times by his subordinates even before he had returned to the US.
But the global reverberations from the remarks leave the administration facing grave questions.
Some are strategic and could impact the future course of the war and so-far elusive hopes for a ceasefire. Others are political and relate to Biden's standing at home, amid a torrent of Republican criticism, and internationally, as he seeks to keep the Western coalition together.
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