During his speech in Warsaw, US President Joe Biden pledged US support to the people of Ukraine. He warns of Kremlin chief Putin.
According to US President Joe Biden, Russian President Vladimir Putin should no longer remain in office. “For God’s sake, this man cannot stay in power,” said Biden in Warsaw on Saturday, without explicitly mentioning the Russian President by name at this point.
In his speech at the end of a two-day visit to Poland, however, Biden mentioned Putin several times by name, and at times he simply referred to him as a “dictator” or “tyrant”.
Immediately after Biden’s speech, a senior White House official took pains to stress that the president’s statement was not directly calling for Putin’s overthrow. “The President’s message was that Putin must not be allowed to have power over his neighbors or the region. He didn’t talk about Putin’s power in Russia or the overthrow of the government,” he said.
With the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine, Putin made a strategic mistake, said Biden. “A dictator who wants to rebuild an empire can never extinguish people’s love for freedom,” Biden said. In Ukraine, Putin will “never” achieve a victory, he stressed.
US President: NATO assistance is a “sacred obligation”
Biden used urgent words to warn of an attack on NATO territory. “Don’t even think about taking action against an inch of NATO territory,” Biden said. The United States and its NATO partners have a “sacred obligation” to defend alliance territory with the combined power of all members, Biden said.
Biden said Putin miscalculated the war of aggression in Ukraine. NATO and the West are now “more united” than ever before. Russia wanted fewer NATO soldiers in Eastern Europe, now there are more, he said. The US armed forces alone now have more than 100,000 soldiers in Europe.
Biden pledged the support of the United States to the people of Ukraine. “We’re with you,” Biden said. Russia is trying to crush democracy at home and is also endangering neighboring countries. There is no justification for Russia’s brutal war of aggression in Ukraine, Biden said. Biden had also previously met with Ukrainian refugees and two government ministers in Kyiv in Warsaw.
«Great battle between democracy and autocracy»
The world is preparing for a long conflict over the future international order. It is about a “great battle between democracy and autocracy, between freedom and oppression, between a rule-based order and one that is determined by brute force,” said Biden in a speech in Warsaw on Saturday evening. “We have to be clear about this: this battle will not be fought in days or in months. We have to steel ourselves for a long fight.”
Biden condemned Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin’s portrayal that Russia was “denazifying” Ukraine. “That’s a lie, that’s just plain cynical and also obscene,” Biden said. Biden continued that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was Jewish and that his father’s family was a victim of the Holocaust. “And Putin, like all autocrats, has the audacity to believe that might makes right.”
Biden spoke at Warsaw’s Royal Castle a month after Russia’s war of aggression began in neighboring Ukraine. It is considered a symbol of the Polish capital, which was largely destroyed by Nazi Germany in World War II and later rebuilt.
Source: Stern
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