President Joe Biden faced backlash on Sunday after he revealed sensitive U.S. military information during an interview that critics said could make America’s adversaries more aggressive.

Biden told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria that the reason that he is giving cluster munitions to Ukraine is because the U.S. is running out of 155mm artillery shells.

“These are weapons that 100 nations banned, including some of our closest NATO allies,” Zakaria said. “When there was news that the Russians might be using it admittedly against civilians your then press secretary said this might be constitute war crimes.”

“What made you change your mind and decide to give them these weapons?” he asked.

“The Ukrainians are running out of ammunition,” Biden responded. “The ammunition, that they used to call them 155-millimeter weapons. This is a war relating to munitions, and they are running out of that ammunition and we’re low on it. And so what I finally did, I took the recommendation of the Defense Department to, not permanently, but to allow for in this transition period where we have more 155 weapons, these shells for the Ukrainians, to provide them with something that has a very low dud rate. It’s about — I think it’s 150, which is the least likely to be blowing.

“And it’s not used in civilian areas. They’re trying to get through those trenches and stop those tanks from rolling. And so — but it was not an easy decision. And it’s not — we’re not signatories of that agreement. But I — it took me a while to be convinced to do it. But the main thing is they either have the weapons to stop the Russians now from their — keeping them from stopping the Ukrainian offensive through these areas, or they don’t. And I think they needed them.”

WATCH: Joe Biden broadcasts to the world that the U.S. is low on 155mm shells.

Does President Biden not care that our adversaries in communist China are listening?
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Biden’s remarks led to pushback online from commentators who said that he should not be revealing that type of information to the world during interviews.

“Joe Biden broadcasting to the world that the US is low on 155mm shells,” Republican strategist Steve Guest tweeted. “Moron. Does Biden not care that our adversaries in China are listening?”

“Just spectacular,” attorney and columnist Kurt Schlichter sarcastically remarked.

“Biden seems to be saying we’re sending cluster bombs to Ukraine because we’re running out of other munitions,” Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tweeted. “Looks like a pretext for even more military spending to me. The time has come to offer diplomatic alternatives to war + bring both sides to negotiating table.”

“Love when the president of America goes on CNN to tell everyone we’re low on ammo,” conservative strategist Logan Dobson tweeted.

President Joe Biden struggled to answer why he should not step aside and let a younger generation of Democrats lead in his party as concerns mount about his fitness for office as the oldest president in U.S. history.

CNN’s Fareed Zakaria claimed that there are people who “are impressed” by the Biden presidency “and they think [he’s] been a great president.”

“You’ve brought the economy back,” Zakaria claimed. “You’ve restored relations with the world. But many of these people do say and these are hardened supporters of yours, ‘the next thing he should do is step aside and let another generation of Democrats take the baton.'”

“Why are they wrong?” he asked.

“Well, let me just — they’re not right or wrong,” Biden said.

Biden then proceeded to talk about the rest of the world and made zero mention of anything domestically.

“It is — look, to use the phrase again, I think we’re at an inflection point,” he said. “I think the world is changing and I think I — there is one thing that comes with age, if you’re being honest about it your whole life and that is some wisdom. I think we’re on the cusp of being able to make significant positive changes in the world. Really honest to God do.”

“You’ve seen what we’ve done in Europe. Europe is more united than it has ever been since World War II — end of World War II,” he said. “You’ve seen what we’ve been able to do in the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea. We’ve united that part of the world including the 50 — basically 50 island nations that are participating, who will be here by the way shortly.”

Biden claimed that he was “putting the world together in a way that is going to make things significantly — how can I say it — more secure for people.”

“We’re uniting democracies — have a possibility of uniting democracies in a way that hadn’t happened ever,” he claimed. “And, so, I think that whether it is the far east, whether it is NATO, whether it is Europe, whether it is what is going on in Africa, I think we have enormous opportunities. And I think I just want to finish the job. And I think we can do that in the next six years.”