Kjell Magne Bondevik: – Unfortunate by Biden

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“War criminal” and “butcher”

Both Foreign Minister Anthony Blinken in the United States and Prime Minister Olaf Scholz in Germany have assured that neither the United States nor NATO will advocate a regime change in Russia. French President Emmanuel Macron has stated that any escalation, either in word or deed, could damage attempts to negotiate with Putin.

Recently, Biden described Putin as both a war criminal and a butcher. Although it may be perceived as more crude to refer to Putin as a butcher, Bondevik thinks it was worse to say that Putin can not remain in power.

– As a head of state, you must comply with international law and justice and then you must not advocate for a change of regime in another country. But that heads of state sometimes use strong characteristics about each other, you just have to live with, says Bondevik and continues:

– I can understand that Biden did it, but it is not certain that it will help to reach a solution in the negotiations. I hope that Russia manages to look past that and rather concentrate on preventing further human suffering.

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