Biden Goes There And Makes Putin Miss Trump Even More

While talking to reporters, President Biden threatened the 1 happening that Putin does not want, an accrued NATO beingness successful Europe.

Transcript of Biden’s gaggle with reporters arsenic provided to PoliticusUSA by the White House:

Q    President Biden, what did you convey connected your telephone with Vladimir Putin?
 
THE PRESIDENT:  I made it wide to President Putin that if helium — helium makes immoderate much moves and goes into Ukraine, we volition person terrible sanctions. We volition summation our — our beingness successful Europe with our NATO Allies, and it volition person to beryllium a dense terms to wage for it.
 
Q    Did you get the consciousness that helium is immoderate little apt to invade Ukraine aft your conversation?
 
THE PRESIDENT:  What I got the consciousness of is that helium has agreed that we would person 3 large conferences successful Europe opening successful the mediate of the period with our elder staffs that subordinate to the OSCE, the Russia-NATO Council, arsenic good arsenic the continuation of discussions connected our strategical doctrine. And so, helium did not disagree with immoderate of that.
 
And helium laid retired immoderate of his concerns astir NATO and the United States and Europe, and we laid retired ours. And we said we’d statesman to negociate immoderate of those issues. 
 
But I made it wide that they lone could enactment if, successful fact, helium deescalated, not escalated, the concern there.
 
Q    Do you expect much factual advancement aft the talks successful January?
 
THE PRESIDENT:  Well, I ever expect if you negotiate, you marque progress, but we’ll see. We’ll see.

Putin Has Gone From A Trump Puppet Trying To Destroy NATO To A Biden Nightmare

Donald Trump spent 4 years attempting to fracture US alliances, with circumstantial attraction paid to NATO. One of Putin’s goals has agelong been to grow Russia’s sphere of power and get escaped of NATO.

Biden’s menace to summation NATO’s beingness is the past happening that Putin wants. Severe economical sanctions would cripple Russia’s already teetering economy, but if Putin knows that an penetration of Ukraine volition effect successful a nonstop situation to his sphere of influence, that should springiness him pause.

Putin had it bully nether Trump. He was capable to bash immoderate helium wanted, wherever helium wanted with nary US pushback.

That’s each gone now, arsenic Biden is lasting up to Putin, and helium volition marque him wage dearly if helium invades Ukraine.