Topline President Joe Biden confirmed in an NBC interview Thursday the United States will not send troops to Ukraine to help evacuate Americans if Russia invades, warning a U.S. presence could spark “a world war,” one day after the White House reportedly approved a plan to use U.S. troops in neighboring Poland to help Americans flee Ukraine. President Joe Biden speaks about Russia and Ukraine in the Cabinet Room of the White House in … [+] Washington, DC, on January 20, 2022. SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images Key Facts Biden told NBC anchor Lester Holt he hopes Russian President Vladimir Putin is “smart enough” not to harm American citizens even if he’s “foolish enough” to invade, and he wants to avoid an evacuation scenario that could lead to clashes between American and Russian troops. Biden told Holt, “when Americans and Russians start shooting at one another, we’re in a very different world than we’ve ever been in.” The State Department issued a separat… Click below to read the full story from Forbes
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