US President Joe Biden said in a speech at the White House on Thursday that the United States “will not allow” Russia to “intimidate Europe” by cutting energy supplies.
Biden said that “Russia is using energy as a weapon once morest those who stood once morest it in the war on Ukraine,” noting in the context that Washington is working with allied countries to help Europeans who “are threatening and blackmailing them with energy,” as he put it.
He stated that the United States is working with its allies to transfer natural gas to Poland and Bulgaria.
In his speech, the US President stated that the United States “does not attack Russia,” but rather “helps Ukraine defend itself in the war that has been going on on the latter’s territory for more than two months,” noting that “the military aid provided forced Moscow to retreat in Kyiv.”
Biden noted that “the threat of using nuclear weapons is irresponsible.”
This, he said, that his country had provided intelligence information and anti-armor weapons to the Ukrainian forces, indicating that the weapons sent by Washington had arrived in Ukraine and might be used in battles.
He explained that his country has provided Ukrainian forces with “10 anti-armor weapons for every Russian tank.”
“We have provided intelligence information to Ukraine to defend itself,” he said, promising to provide more military support to Kiev to confront the Russian army.
Biden said that while the administration has stuck to its position that US forces are not stationed in Ukraine, they are stationed on the eastern side of NATO countries to support US allies, explaining that there has been growing concern in recent days that Russia may extend beyond Ukraine’s borders.
The US president considered that “support for Ukraine is expensive, but the United States cannot remain neutral.”
Biden sent a “message” to Russian business leaders, saying, “We will seize their yachts and other illicit gains.”
Biden acknowledged how the war in Ukraine, an important source of wheat and grain for countries in the Middle East and North Africa, might contribute to global food shortages. Wheat and cereals.
Biden reported that the war in Ukraine caused a loss of 10% of global grain exports.
Source: Russia Today