The US president said on Tuesday that, one year after the start of the war in Ukraine, the Atlantic Alliance is “stronger than ever” and reaffirmed the dedication of the United States to the security of Europe.
Joe Biden, who is in Warsaw this Tuesday after making a surprise visit to Kiev on Monday, described NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) as “probably the most important alliance in history” and stressed its solidity despite the hopes of Russian President Vladimir Putin that the organization would collapse with the war in Ukraine.
The US head of state also defended – at the opening of a meeting with the Polish president, Andrzej Duda, in the framework of a series of consultations with allies to prepare for a more complicated phase of the war in Ukraine – that having security in Europe is is essential.
“We have to have security in Europe,” he said at the presidential palace in Warsaw.
“It’s so basic, so simple, so consistent,” he added, praising the “truly extraordinary” support given to Ukraine and Ukrainians by Poland.
For his part, Andrzej Duda praised the US president’s trip, calling it “spectacular” since it “boosted the morale of Ukraine’s defenders” and considered that “thanks to Joe Biden, we have seen that the United States is capable of guaranteeing the world order”. .
This is Biden’s second official visit to Poland in the last 12 months and he is expected to deliver a political speech in the afternoon.
On Wednesday, the US president will meet in Warsaw with the heads of state and government of nine countries on the eastern flank of NATO, geographically closest to Russia.
This afternoon’s speech should also be seen as a “response” to the intervention made this morning by the Russian president, in which Vladimir Putin declared it “impossible to defeat Russia on the battlefield” and withdrew the country from the limitation agreements of nuclear weapons.
Source: TSF
