国務省までも一歩引き始めた
By contrast, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Jake Sullivan,
Biden’s national security adviser, had both stopped short of
describing Russia’s assault as a genocide in recent days.
No official agency of the United States has made a determination
that Russia’s brutalities qualify as a genocide.
“Based on what we have seen so far, we have seen atrocities,
” Sullivan said last week. “We have seen war crimes.
We have not seen a level of systematic deprivation of life
of the Ukrainian people to rise to the level of genocide.”
Biden’s comments Tuesday are the latest example of the
president seemingly getting ahead of his own White House
in condemning Putin and the war in Ukraine.
He often appears torn between his desire to denounce
the brutal onslaught and the fact that certain terms have
legal definitions that can trigger specific actions.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/12/biden-calls-russias-war-ukraine-genocide/