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After four days of alliance building, emotional interactions with refugees and stirring words about the need to fight for democracy, one sentence that President Joe Biden appeared to tack on to the end of his final speech in Polandthreatened to overshadow all he hadachieved as he deals with the most significant foreign policy crisis of his presidency.

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“For God’s sake,” Biden said of Russian President Vladimir Putin, “this man cannot remain in power.”

Biden’s aides quickly tried to quickly walk it back, insisting the president was not promoting regime change when he spoke to a packed courtyard in the Royal Castle in Warsaw Saturday.

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