Why Russia and China are unleashing their anger –

The temperature of the confrontation between NATO and Russia (and China) has never been so hot since the Cold War. The commitments in favor of Ukraine certified in the Declaration of the Alliance leader gathered in Washington have provoked a harsh reaction from Moscow and Beijing. Three passages have most irritated NATO’s adversaries: 40 billion euros in military aid to Kiev “within the next year”; the “irreversibility” of Ukraine’s path to entry into the Alliance; China must stop helping Moscow in its war of invasion.

Previously, there had been announcements of the dispatch to Kiev of new air defense systems and F-16 fighters, the deployment of US long-range missiles in Germany from 2026, and the signing by Italy, France, Germany and Poland of an agreement to “improve long-range strike capabilities”.

The responses were not long in coming. “NATO should stop inciting conflict and rivalry and contribute more to peace and stability in the world,” Beijing said. From Moscow, Dmitry Medvedev said that Russia would work to make Ukraine and NATO “disappear.” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov instead called the Washington summit statement “a serious threat” to Russian security and threatened “considered, coordinated and effective measures to contain NATO.”

In the face of the signal of unity launched by the leaders gathered in Washington, the discordant voice of Viktor Orban emerged, who following the conclusion of the summit flew to Florida, to Mar-a-Lago, to meet Donald Trump, who has always been critical of Western support for Kiev. A snub to the Biden Administration, the European Union and NATO, following the visits not authorized by the EU to Kiev, Moscow and Beijing.

On the sidelines of the summit, a new face-to-face meeting took place at the White House between Joe Biden and Volodymyr Zelensky. “I will support Ukraine until the end,” the US president reiterated. Zelensky instead asked the US leader to “erase the limits imposed on our soldiers.” The request was then extended to all allies in a press conference alongside the outgoing NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg: “If we want to win, we need our partners to eliminate all restrictions” on the use of weapons on Russian soil, the Ukrainian leader said, while the Pentagon announced a new aid package to Kiev worth 225 million dollars, including the new battery of Patriot missiles promised at the beginning of the summit.

At the end of the Washington summit, Joe Biden took questions from journalists, in his first press conference since the Atlanta debacle in the debate with Donald Trump, while the chorus of voices from the Democratic Party is growing, asking him to take a step back and allow the choice of a new candidate for the November presidential elections.

In the Italian night, Joe Biden finally showed up at a press conference, the first following the disastrous debate with Donald Trump. The future of his re-election campaign will depend on his performance, following the growing Democratic chorus asking him to step back.