![]() With the addition of Finland and Sweden on track to join NATO, the alliance’s commanders will need to launch new military assessments and contingency planning for how to respond if there’s a Russian border incursion against either of those countries. ![]() In Helsinki, Biden met with the leaders of Nordic countries and talked with Finnish President Sauli Niinistö about his country’s security concerns along its 800-mile border with Russia. NATO is obviously stronger and bigger than it was just a few years ago when it was in danger of falling apart.” The event is scheduled to begin at 2:30 p.m. Biden’s trip to Helsinki, he adds, is “a symbol not only of his embrace of the NATO alliance but of the revitalization and expansion of the alliance under American leadership. President Biden on Tuesday afternoon is slated to deliver remarks on the country’s fight against COVID-19. “Trump was leading us toward a future in which NATO might have broken up and every ally would have to fend for themselves in dealing with the Russians,” says Tom Malinowski, a senior fellow at the McCain Institute and a former member of Congress. President Biden held a press conference to announce new economic sanctions against Russia after their invasion of Ukraine. But he thought wrong.”ĭuring his four years as President, Trump repeatedly questioned NATO’s value and belittled members of the alliance who he said weren’t contributing enough to their own defense. He thought democratic leaders would be weak. “He thought our unity would shatter at the first testing. “When Putin and his craven lust for land and power unleashed his brutal war on Ukraine, he was betting NATO would break apart,” Biden said during his speech Wednesday at Vilnius University before departing Lithuania for Finland.
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