Both yesterday and today, US President Joe Biden is visiting Poland, just after his previous unannounced stay of several hours in Kiev and his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The visit of the incumbent US president to Ukraine, a country on whose territory wars regularly take place, is an unprecedented event, and the passage of both presidents through the streets of the city, in the face of an ongoing missile warning, demonstrates the determination of both leaders to strengthen the defenders of the country, who have been defending this country for a year and fighting against the superior forces of the Russian aggressor.
Joe Biden’s two-day stay in our country was maximized by both sides, there was a face-to-face meeting of both presidents, a bilateral meeting of delegations from both countries, the US president gave a speech to more than 20,000 people in the Kubicki Arcades, and there will be a meeting with heads of state or government of the Bucharest Nine, ie the countries of NATO’s eastern flank.
Refugees from Ukraine
So many warm words addressed to Poland and Poland, as well as to President Andrzej Duda and the Polish government, have never been uttered by an American president, who expressed sincere emotion for taking in more than 8 million war refugees from Ukraine, including more than 1 .5 million of those are still in our country.
In this context, Joe Biden recalled his stay at the Polish-Ukrainian border in Przemyśl in March 2022 and spoke of the sad eyes of children or women who left their husbands and sons to defend Ukraine, but in Poland they were given complete security.
The president of the US even emphasized that everything Poland and the Poles have done and are still doing for Ukraine, in every respect military, humanitarian and health, as well as taking in such a large number of refugees, is truly extraordinary.
More US in Europe
President Andrzej Duda, in turn, thanked the US president for his visit to Kiev, for stating that the US would support Ukraine in every possible way until it was needed.
The Polish president stressed the need for the US presence in Europe, which is also extremely important for all countries of NATO’s eastern flank, and today’s meeting between Joe Biden and the heads of state and government of the nine countries of Bucharest will devoted to this problem. President Duda also came up with an interesting initiative, recalling that during his Presidency, in the first half of 2025, Poland will hold the Presidency of the European Council and he wants his guiding principle to be the strengthening of transatlantic ties between the EU and the US is. and the slogan more US in Europe.
It can be guessed that especially the Germans and the French will not like this kind of concept to say the least, but if the US supports it, its implementation can bring very good results for the improvement of European security in the long run.
In addition, the implementation of this project would perhaps once and for all end the expulsion of the United States from Europe and replace this presence with cooperation between Germany and Russia, which for years meant that Russia’s military potential was financially “calcified” , and consequently led to his attack on Ukraine.
Support for Ukraine and thank you for Poland
President Joe Biden’s evening speech in Arkady Kubicki was largely devoted to support for Ukraine, in which context the American president made an important commitment that Russia would not be the winner of this war.
Thanks were given to Poland and Poland, and it was emphasized that without such involvement of our country it would not be possible to transfer so much military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine that Ukrainians would be able to fight in defense of their own country.
There was also President Biden’s repeated pledge to defend every inch of land in every NATO country, which will likely also be the focus of tonight’s meeting of the Bucharest Nine.
In all the US President’s speeches yesterday, an important message was not only the conviction of Ukraine’s victory in the war with Russia, but also the emphasis on Poland’s role in making this possible, which was the essence of the statement of yesterday from Joe Biden “The US needs Poland just as much as Poland needs the US.”
Source: wPolityce