Biden spoke as the United States plans to announce an additional $175 million in aid to Ukraine from its dwindling cash reserves for Kiev. He has indicated that he wants to make major changes to US immigration policy along the Mexican border in an attempt to win Republican support Reuters.
“If Putin takes over Ukraine, he won’t stop there,” Biden said, adding that Putin might next attack a NATO ally.
Then American forces can fight against Russian forces.
“We cannot allow Putin to win.” said Biden, whose words sparked an angry reaction from Moscow.
Anatoly Antonov, Russia’s ambassador to the United States, was quoted by RIA News Agency as saying that Biden’s statements regarding a possible US-Russian conflict represented “provocative rhetoric that is unacceptable for a responsible nuclear power.”
But Senate Republicans later on Wednesday blocked Democratic-backed legislation that would have provided billions of dollars in new security aid to Ukraine and Israel, among other international concerns, saying they wanted to emphasize the importance of a tougher border policy.
The White House warned this week that the United States is running out of time and money to help Ukraine repel the Russian invasion.
White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said in a telephone interview with Reuters regarding building the Ukrainian defense industrial base that the United States is adhering to its long-standing position of not pressuring Ukraine to negotiate with Russia.
That’s for them to decide. We will continue to fight every day to try to secure this money
Sullivan said.
He promised that they would continue to express the historic mistake that the United States would make by withdrawing from Ukraine at this moment. Biden said he was ready to have “reasonable and responsible discussions to achieve a bipartisan outcome on border policy and border resources.”
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