Experts told The Washington Post that President Joe Biden's comments that Putin should no longer be in power could allow him to show more restraint.
At the end of his speech from the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland, on Saturday, Biden said that the man cannot remain in power.
The White House said that Biden's comments were not calling for regime change in Russia.
The President said that Putin couldn't exercise power over his neighbors or the region. A White House official told Fox News that he was not discussing Putin's power in Russia.
Some foreign policy experts say Biden's comments could escalate tensions and make a diplomatic end to Russia's invasion of Ukraine even more complicated.
The president of the Council on Foreign Relations told the Post that Biden's remarks don't achieve the priorities of ending the war on terms Ukraine can accept, and discouraging any escalation by Putin.
If you have everything to lose, it frees Putin up. It confirms his worst fears, which is that the United States wants his removal and systemic change.
The fact that Biden's comments were off the cuff could be seen as Biden's genuine belief as opposed to his scripted words, according to the report.
The comments made by Michael O'Hanlon make him concerned that top officials in Biden's administration may not be thinking about ways to end the war.
If they were, Biden's head would not be in a place where he would be saying, "Putin must go." The only way to get to war termination is to negotiate with this guy.
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