The president of the United States defended this Thursday that NATO will be “stronger than ever” with the accession of Finland and Sweden and defended that Putin got the opposite of what he wanted by invading Ukraine.
Finland and Sweden received a “green light” from Erdogan to join NATO. But what did they have to give up?
Finland and Sweden are closer than ever to joining [à NATO]. We are more united than ever and with the accession of Sweden and Finland we will be stronger than ever. Has [os dois países] Very powerful Armed Forces, we are going to extend the NATO border by more than 800 miles on the border between Finland and Russia,” said Joe Biden.
The president of the United States was speaking at a press conference in the Madrid Exhibition Park, in the northeast of the Spanish capital, at the end of the summit of heads of state and government of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Biden, who traveled to Europe to participate in the NATO summit but also in the G7 (the seven largest economies in the world), defended that, “at each step” of this trip, “marks of unity, determination and strong capacity. of the democratic nations of the world to do what is necessary.
“EITHER [Presidente da Federação Russa, Vladimir] Putin thought he could break the transatlantic alliance. He tried to weaken us, he thought our resolve was going to break, but he’s getting the exact opposite of what he wanted. He wanted the ‘Finnishization’ of NATO, but he got the ‘Nationalization’ of Finland”, he underlined.
“Before the war started, I warned Putin that if he invaded Ukraine, NATO would not only be stronger but also more united, and we would see the world’s democracies opposing his aggression and upholding a rules-based international order. That is exactly what we are seeing today,” he added.
the american president called the NATO summit “historic”: “This summit was about strengthening our Alliance, facing the challenges of our world as it is today and the threats we will face in the future”.
Biden addressed the Strategic Concept approved by the Alliance in 2010 in Lisbon, where Russia was considered a “partner” and China was not mentioned, contrasting it with the Strategic Concept adopted at this summit that ends today in the Spanish capital, which identifies Russia. as the main threat to the Euro-Atlantic area.
“The world has changed, and it has changed a lot. [desde 2010]and NATO is also changing”, he stressed.
Source: Observadora
