Naturally, much press attention is being devoted to Biden's final remark. First, it shouldn't distract from the historical significance of the speech. We're a watershed in history. Biden described the stakes well & is correct that this will be the defining struggle of our times.
Next, Russian "outrage" at the remark is transparent, hypocritical & they would have found reason for outrage no matter what Biden said. They are serially committed war crimes against an innocent neighbor. They have attacked American democracy directly.
They have actually tried to choose who America's leader was and depose the leader of Ukraine. They have no moral standing to make any criticism of Biden whatsoever. Finally, while Biden's final comment, that Putin has to go, may have distracted from the foreign policy thrust...
...of his speech, it was not wrong. Russia cannot hope to be accepted again as a member of the global community with a brutal, war criminal, dictator who has serially violated international law and virtually every agreement to which he was party as their president.
Putin does have to go. That may not be the official goal of US foreign policy. But it is the only way that Russia may ever again embark on the path to normalcy and to recovery for the serial crimes of Putin and those closest to him.
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