Biden told reporters Wednesday that “my guess is he will move in. He has to do something,” as he revealed tensions within the U.S.-European alliance about how to handle various scenarios involving Ukraine. “It’s one thing if it’s a minor incursion and then we end up having a fight about what to do and not do,” he said, adding “there are differences in NATO as to what countries are willing to do depending on what happens.”
Thanks - Timber posted the same, but it didn’t mention the State Department, just Biden’s usual flubbing.
In any case, Russia never claimed to have any type of permission from the West, so Russia almost certainly ignored the flub.