The President of the United States, Joe Biden, welcomes the Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk, to the White House today.
The meeting will take place at a time when the American Intelligence services, in their report to the Senate which was published yesterday Monday, warn that in the war in Ukraine “the dynamic is increasingly shifting in favor of Moscow”, as Kiev has not received aid from the USA because of political controversies in Congress.
The American president intends to repeat in Donald Tusk but also to the Polish president Andrzej Duda, with whom he will also meet, the “non-negotiable commitment to the defense of Ukraine in the face of its brutal attack of Russia“, announced the White House.
This meeting, which coincides with the 25th anniversary of its accession Poland in the NATOwill also be an opportunity to prepare the next meeting of the Alliance to be held in Washington.
Politically adversaries, Poland’s conservative president and its pro-European prime minister expressed their desire for understanding before the trip.
“Politically, I disagree with President Andrei Duda on almost all issues, but when it comes to the security of our homeland, we must act together and we will. Not only during the visit to the USA,” Tusk wrote yesterday in X.
The fate of NATO will play a central role in the meeting.
“Clear response to Russian aggression”
Duda estimated yesterday that NATO member countries should increase their military spending from 2% to 3% of their GDP in order to send “a clear and bold response to Russian aggression.”
The Alliance has set a target for its member countries’ military spending to reach 2% of their GDP, although many do not meet it.
Poland, for its part, already spends regarding 4% of GDP on its defense, mainly on the purchase of American equipment.
THE Biden appears as a guarantor of NATO’s future mainly once morest the threats of Trump, his predecessor in the US presidency and his most likely opponent in the November presidential elections.
According to the protothema, the Republican had recently said that he would “encourage” Russia to attack NATO countries that do not spend enough on their defense, statements that Biden strongly criticized.
However, the American president estimated, in his brief conversation with journalists yesterday Monday, that “there is no need to deploy more American soldiers on the Polish border”.
There are already regarding 10,000 US troops in this eastern European country.
In addition, Biden once more asked Congress during his State of the Nation address last week to release a package of regarding $60 billion for Ukraine, which has not received US aid since late December.
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