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Politico (22 January 2022)

BY DAVID M. HERSZENHORN, LILI BAYER AND RYM MOMTAZ

Western officials spun into overdrive on Thursday to contain any damage caused by Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron.

The U.S. president’s stray remark suggesting NATO powers might tolerate a “minor incursion” by Russia into Ukraine came the same day as the French president’s assertion that Europeans should negotiate their own version of a new security order with Moscow.

The mistimed misstatements, if that’s what they were, by the commanders-in-chief of two of NATO’s major nuclear powers set off tremors in capitals from Kyiv to Ottawa, but in the end seemed only to reinforce Western unity in pushing back against Russia. It suggests that perhaps it was the Kremlin that should have been most alarmed.

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