{"id":29778,"date":"2023-02-22T06:47:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T06:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=29778"},"modified":"2023-02-22T06:47:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T06:47:09","slug":"biden-to-meet-nato-leader-in-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/02\/22\/biden-to-meet-nato-leader-in-poland\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden to meet NATO leader in Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<strong>President Joe Biden<\/strong>&nbsp;is wrapping up his whirlwind, four-day visit to Poland and Ukraine by reassuring eastern flank NATO allies that his administration is highly attuned to the looming threats and other impacts spurred by the grinding&nbsp;<strong>Russian invasion of Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before departing Warsaw on Wednesday, Biden will hold talks with leaders from the Bucharest Nine, a collection of nations on the most eastern parts of the NATO alliance that came together in response to Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the war in Ukraine drags on, the Bucharest Nine countries\u2019 anxieties have remained heightened. Many worry Putin could move to take military action against them next if he\u2019s successful in Ukraine. The alliance includes Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen Russia invaded, it wasn\u2019t just Ukraine being tested. The whole world faced a test for the ages,\u201d Biden said in an address from the foot of Warsaw\u2019s Royal Castle on Tuesday to mark the somber milestone of the year-old Russian invasion. \u201cEurope was being tested. America was being tested. NATO was being tested. All democracies were being tested.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Biden met Tuesday in Warsaw with Moldovan President Maia Sandu, who last week claimed Moscow was behind a plot to overthrow her country\u2019s government using external saboteurs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sandwiched between Ukraine and Romania and one of Europe\u2019s poorest countries, the Eastern European nation has had historic ties to Russia but wants to join the 27-nation European Union. Biden in his remarks endorsed Moldova\u2019s bid to join the EU<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m proud to stand with you and the freedom-loving people of Moldova,\u201d Biden said of Sandu and her country in his Tuesday address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since Russia invaded Ukraine nearly a year ago, Moldova, a former Soviet republic of about 2.6 million people, has sought to forge closer ties with its Western partners. Last June, it was granted EU candidate status, the same day as Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sandu spoke out last week about a&nbsp;<strong>Russian plot \u201cto overthrow the constitutional order.\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;She spoke out after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country had intercepted plans by Russian secret services to destroy Moldova. Those claims were later confirmed by Moldovan intelligence officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Biden\u2019s speech on the Ukraine war came one day after he made a surprise visit to Kyiv, a grand gesture of solidarity with the Ukraine. The address was part affirmation of Europe\u2019s role in helping Ukraine repel Russia\u2019s ongoing invasion of Ukraine and part sharply worded warning to Putin that the U.S. won\u2019t abide Moscow defeating Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The White House has praised several eastern flank countries, including Lithuania, Poland and Romania, over the last year for stepping up efforts to back Ukraine with weapons and economic aid and taking in refugees.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Biden has given particular attention to Poland\u2019s efforts. The country is hosting about 1.5 million Ukrainian refugees and&nbsp;<strong>has committed $3.8 billion in military and economic assistance to Kyiv.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe truth of the matter is: The United States needs Poland and NATO as much as NATO needs the United States,\u201d&nbsp;Biden said during talks with Duda on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;President Joe Biden&nbsp;is wrapping up his whirlwind, four-day visit to Poland and Ukraine by reassuring eastern flank NATO allies that his administration is highly attuned to the looming threats and other impacts spurred by the grinding&nbsp;Russian invasion of Ukraine. Before departing Warsaw on Wednesday, Biden will hold talks with leaders from the Bucharest Nine, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":27145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[6850,6728,5178,9305,1257,6623,5714,5692,159,6621,9505,1195,4028,2264,5626,5252,2471,5342,12186,7181,6620,5572,6067,9603,5340,12085,4802,7968,11973,7980,837,3805,71,5524,8709,3457,5217,5760,10041,146,5180,5521,5555,6714,7231,9262,694,11255,5251,10395,5724,6571,2982,3954,36,594,7932],"class_list":["post-29778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-aid","tag-alliance","tag-biden","tag-bucharest","tag-bulgaria","tag-crimea","tag-czech-republic","tag-estonia","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-european-union","tag-freedom","tag-government","tag-hungary","tag-invasion","tag-joe-biden","tag-kyiv","tag-latvia","tag-lithuania","tag-maia-sandu","tag-military","tag-moldova","tag-moldovan-president-maia-sandu","tag-moscow","tag-nations","tag-nato","tag-nine","tag-one","tag-overthrow","tag-poland","tag-president","tag-putin","tag-refugees","tag-romania","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-slovakia","tag-speech","tag-truth","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-war","tag-ukrainian","tag-ukrainian-president-volodymyr-zelenskyy","tag-union","tag-united-states","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","tag-war","tag-warsaw","tag-weapons","tag-white","tag-white-house","tag-will","tag-world","tag-who","tag-zelenskyy"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}