Biden's off-the-cuff remark on Putin sends shock waves on dramatic final day of trip", "description": "At nearly the same moment President Joe Biden declared him a "butcher" Vladimir Putin's missiles began falling in Lviv, Ukraine.</blockquote></ref> Admiral James Stavridis, who took part in NATO's illegal [[Libyan war|war in Libya]] and arms smuggling to groups that became the [[Islamic State]], said he would remember the speech "on NATO as a sacred obligation."<ref>https://www.cnbc.com/video/2022/03/28/i-will-remember-bidens-poland-speech-for-his-remarks-on-nato-as-a-sacred-obligation-stavridis.html</ref> Former [[CBS News]] White House correspondent Mark Knoller said Biden's speech topped former [[President Ronald Reagan]]'s "tear down that wall" speech,<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/media/former-cbs-news-reporter-slammed-bidens-speech-poland-topped-reagans-tear-down-that-wall</ref> while Biden aides and State Department officials said it was only a reference to placate and inflame Polish officials and the Polish people.<ref>https://www.npr.org/2022/03/27/1089047724/biden-went-off-script-to-denounce-putin-in-poland-speech</ref> Not two months earlier European officials and critics were labeling the Polish government as totalitarian and fascist.<ref>https://online.ucpress.edu/currenthistory/article-abstract/121/833/108/120177/REN-PILL-Politics-in-Poland?redirectedFrom=fulltext</ref> | Biden's off-the-cuff remark on Putin sends shock waves on dramatic final day of trip", "description": "At nearly the same moment President Joe Biden declared him a "butcher" Vladimir Putin's missiles began falling in Lviv, Ukraine.</blockquote></ref> Admiral James Stavridis, who took part in NATO's illegal [[Libyan war|war in Libya]] and arms smuggling to groups that became the [[Islamic State]], said he would remember the speech "on NATO as a sacred obligation."<ref>https://www.cnbc.com/video/2022/03/28/i-will-remember-bidens-poland-speech-for-his-remarks-on-nato-as-a-sacred-obligation-stavridis.html</ref> Former [[CBS News]] White House correspondent Mark Knoller said Biden's speech topped former [[President Ronald Reagan]]'s "tear down that wall" speech,<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/media/former-cbs-news-reporter-slammed-bidens-speech-poland-topped-reagans-tear-down-that-wall</ref> while Biden aides and State Department officials said it was only a reference to placate and inflame Polish officials and the Polish people.<ref>https://www.npr.org/2022/03/27/1089047724/biden-went-off-script-to-denounce-putin-in-poland-speech</ref> Not two months earlier European officials and critics were labeling the Polish government as totalitarian and fascist.<ref>https://online.ucpress.edu/currenthistory/article-abstract/121/833/108/120177/REN-PILL-Politics-in-Poland?redirectedFrom=fulltext</ref> |