The President of the United States, Joe Biden, this afternoon called on the Republicans in the House of Representatives to approve the joint aid package of 95 billion dollars to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, which passed the first process in the Senate this Monday. , but it has little chance of being approved in the Lower House, after the rejection and influence of Donald Trump on his congressmen. “History is watching: this critical moment will never be forgotten,” he assured, and harshly criticized the magnate’s words last weekend, when he assured that he would “encourage” Russia to do “whatever the hell it wants” with NATO allies if they do not comply with their Defense spending commitments (2% of GDP).
“There was already a lot at stake for American security before this bill. But in recent days, the risk has increased,” he said, “the former president has sent a dangerous and frankly un-American signal to the world.” Biden recalled that “no other president in our history has bowed to a Russian dictator. And let me say it as clearly as I can: I never will.” “For God’s sake, he’s stupid, he’s embarrassing, he’s dangerous. He’s un-American.”
Trump recalled in a campaign speech in South Carolina a conversation he had had during his mandate with the leader of a “great European country” in the Atlantic Alliance, who asked him if he would defend them if attacked by Russia. “Didn’t you pay? Are you criminals?” Trump responded: “Well no, I wouldn’t protect you.” And he capped off his incendiary statements by stating that he would “encourage Russia to do whatever the hell it wants.”
The threat of violating Article 5 of the Atlantic Alliance treaty, which requires collective defense in the event that any member is attacked, has provoked rejection from European NATO countries, as well as Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who assured that “any suggestion that allies will not defend each other undermines the security of all of us, including that of the United States, and increases the risks for European and American troops.”
“Can you imagine a former US president saying that? Well, everyone has heard it!” Biden exclaimed. “When Trump looks at NATO, he sees it as if it were a burden: he does not see in it an alliance that protects America and the world. He does not understand that it is based on the fundamental principles of freedom, security and national sovereignty,” he said. , in an angry tone, “because, for Trump, principles never matter: everything is transactional.”
The president reminded the former president that Article Five “has only been invoked once in the history of NATO, and it was to support the United States after they attacked us on 9/11. We should never forget it, never.” , he declared in his brief statement, aimed at asking Congress to approve “essential” aid for Ukraine, which is on hold after two years of conflict and stagnation on the battlefield.
“Our nation is at a turning point in history, where the decisions we make now will determine the course of our future for decades to come,” Biden reiterated. “And I say to House Republicans: You have to decide. Are you going to defend freedom or are you going to side with tyranny? Are you going to side with Ukraine or Putin? Are you going to side with “US or Trump?”
