Biden and his aides quickly walked back his comments, denying that the President was actually calling for regime change in Russia. If the US' strategic goal is influencing Russian behavior, rather than regime change, then President Biden's remarks were not helpful. Any suggestion of regime change by the West empowers Putin to use it as a rallying call for unity and resistance. Conspiracy and consensusA rather more enlightened strategy, however, is working within the conspiratorial nature of internal Russian power dynamics. Join us on Twitter and FacebookHis remarks over the years embrace and amplify Putin's illusions of Russian power, confrontation with the West and the brutal suppression of dissent.

Source: CNN April 02, 2022 01:25 UTC