Joe Biden worries Putin ‘doesn’t have a way out’

Bloomberg

President Joe Biden said he’s worried that Russian President Vladimir Putin “doesn’t have a way out right now” of his war in Ukraine, as the US leader signed into law a measure making it easier
for Washington to send weapons and supplies to the government in Kyiv.
Congressional Democrats have drafted a Ukraine aid package worth almost $40 billion, more than the $33 billion Biden requested from lawmakers last month.
The European Union’s top executive made a dash to Budapest in a bid to break a deadlock on the bloc’s proposed embargo on imports of oil from Russia. Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who’s been holding out against the move, said the talks made some progress but “a lot more needs to be done.”
That forecast is more than previously expected and in a scenario where the war ends this year, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development said.
Russia’s invasion has upended trade in energy, agricultural commodities and fertilisers and disrupted supply chains, resulting in slower growth across eastern Europe.
Joe Biden said Vladimir Putin believed he could break up Nato and the European Union with the war in Ukraine, calling the Russian leader “a very, very, very calculating man.”
The US president, speaking at a Democratic National Committee fundraising event near Washington, added “the problem I’m worried about now is that he doesn’t have a way out right now. I’m trying to figure out what we do about that.”

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