US President Joe Biden says he fears Vladimir Putin does not have a way out of the Ukraine war.
Speaking in Washington DC on Monday, Biden described the Russian president as “a very calculating man” but without an exit strategy and admitted “I’m trying to figure out what we do about that”.
He said Mr Putin had mistakenly believed the invasion of Ukraine would break up NATO and the European Union.
But he said that instead, the United States and many European countries had in fact rallied to Ukraine’s side and become more unified.
Mr Putin has long bristled at what he perceives as NATO’s creep eastward into former Soviet republics. Ukraine and its Western allies have steadfastly denied the country posed any threat.
President Biden’s upbeat comments about European unity, however, came as French leader Emmanuel Macron issued a stark warning to Ukraine over its hopes to join the EU.
During a speech marking Europe Day in Strasbourg, France, President Macron said he feared the process would take “decades”.
He said: “We all know perfectly that the process of allowing (Ukraine) to join would take several years, in fact probably several decades.”
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