US President Joe Biden has promised that he will “pay a price” for the invasion of Ukraine by Vladimir Putin, and that he will be able to “save democracy” from the challenges it faces inside and outside the United States.
The war in Ukraine centered part of Biden’s first speech on the State of the Union, in which he announced his decision to close US airspace to Russian airlines, as Canada and the European Union have done.
“Putin is more isolated than ever from the rest of the world”proclaimed the president before the legislators of both chambers of the US Congress.
In addition, Biden insisted that his measures and those of US allies. they will succeed in “suffocating the Russian economy”and announced that the US Department of Justice will take further action to corner the oligarchs that allow the Kremlin to finance its war. “We will find and seize your yachtstheir luxury apartments, their private planes,” he stressed, addressing the Russian oligarchs.
“The world is clearly choosing the side of peace and security”Biden stressed. He admitted that Putin may “continue to make progress” in Ukraine and that, even if he surrounds Kiev with tanks, “will never win hearts and the souls of the Ukrainian people” nor will it fulfill its goal of tearing down “the foundations of the free world”.
“(Putin) He miscalculated things very badly. He believed that he could enter the Ukraine and the world would surrender. And instead he has found a wall of force that he never imagined,” he said. Biden also assured that he has tried to minimize the impact of the war in the US with measures such as the release of 30 million barrels of crude oil from his strategic reserves, and made a promise to the Americans: “We’re going to be fine.
However, Biden only spent about ten minutes on Ukraine of the time that the speech lasted: the proximity of the legislative elections in November and his own drop in popularity in the polls motivated him to prefer to focus on internal affairs.
Source: Lasexta
Mario Twitchell is an accomplished author and journalist, known for his insightful and thought-provoking writing on a wide range of topics including general and opinion. He currently works as a writer at 247 news agency, where he has established himself as a respected voice in the industry.
