'Kyiv stands. And Ukraine Stands. Democracy stands,' President Biden said, standing beside Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, on the eve of the war's one-year anniversary. 'This will be remembered eternally,' Zelenskyy said of Biden's visit.
The trip had been months in the works, but this was one Washington secret that didn't leak. The White House put out a cover story that Biden would visit Warsaw, Poland, for two days starting Tuesday and then head home. Instead, after dinner with the first lady on Saturday, he headed to Ukraine in the middle of the night.
After he leaves Ukraine, Biden will arrive in Warsaw. He'll give a speech Tuesday pledging to stand with Ukraine in perpetuity. The following day he is to meet with leaders of nine nations on NATO’s eastern flank — a group considered most at risk of a Russian attack. It won’t be easy. Americans largely support Ukraine’s efforts to reclaim territory from Russia, even in a protracted war,Doubts are starting to creep in, though, as the amount of American military assistance to Ukraine ticks toward $30 billion. In May 2022 — three months into the war — 60% of Americans favored supplying weapons to Ukraine. As of January, that number had slipped to 48%, according to anreleased last week.
His answer rests on a broader point: Democracies and autocracies are locked in a competition to show which model is superior. If Putin succeeds in snuffing out Ukraine’s democracy, that could embolden China to attack Taiwan, a weaker and smaller democratic state allied with the U.S. Biden will be standing “right on the brink — at the frontier of Eastern Europe, staring out at Russia,” Goldberg said. He’ll have a chance to “lay down a marker” that the U.S. is committed to “rolling back the Russian presence in Ukraine and breaking what is a growing Russian-Chinese-Iranian axis that is challenging Western democracies.”
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