Biden said the United States would join a NATO summit on Friday to signal solidarity and strengthen the alliance in the face of Putin’s aggression.
“The good news is NATO is more united and more determined than ever,” Biden said, vowing to meet the Article 5 commitments to defend NATO territory.
He described NATO as “the greatest military alliance in the history of the world.”
The president said he would send more troops to Europe and deploy them to NATO’s eastern countries such as Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Romania but repeated that he did not want American troops going to war in Russia with Ukraine.
“Our forces are not and will not be engaged in a conflict with Russia in Ukraine,” Biden said.
The president said he was already taking steps to ready additional forces to Europe if necessary.
When asked if he believed Putin was prepared to use nuclear weapons, Biden replied, “I have no idea what he’s threatening.”
Walt sez: Told ya so! Actually I'm not sure President Brandon realizes the Ukraine is not part of NATO. As I said in my last post, even Crazy Joe isn't crazy enough to sent American troops into battle during an election year. I think he'd rather not know about the invasion at all.
Photo scraped from "Joe Biden under attack over handling of Russia in lead up to Ukraine invasion", subheaded "Republicans said the US could be 'held hostage' by Vladimir Putin over energy", by Nick Allen, The Telegraph, 24/2/22.
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