tried to walk back when president biden called putin a war criminal.ee, they tried to walk back when president biden called putin a war criminal., they tried to walk back when president biden called putin a war criminal., they tried to walk back when president biden called putin a war criminal. the they said it wasn t an official statement. but then they said a formal declaration by secretary of state antony blinken calling him a thug, a dictator, a butcher. wouldn t it be approach if somebody who is a buchber, a murderous dictator, a pure thug, a war criminal not be in power? i think fwoo thtwo things ca true. you can hope that putin is not in power but not calling for a regime change. and i think that they have taken great pains not to kind of walk into the narrative often pushed by president putin that this is just the united states pulling the strings here. is this not about oourkukraine,