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Tuesday, March 1, 2022
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Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Biden to talk up NATO, slam Putin in State of the Union address
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleUS President Joe Biden says that dictators who do not “pay a price for their aggression” cause more chaos.
According to excerpts released Tuesday ahead of his first State of the Union address, Biden says that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was “premeditated and unprovoked.”
He will also highlight the importance of European allies in the speech before Congress at the US Capitol on Tuesday evening. Biden says that the alliance established after World War II to secure “peace and stability” in Europe is just as relevant now.
He says that Putin believed the NATO alliance would not respond and Americans would be divided, but “Putin was wrong. We were ready.”
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