The president of the United States, Joe Biden, closed this Thursday his participation in the NATO summit, which was held between yesterday and this Thursday in Madrid, but not before warning his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, that now the alliance it is stronger and more united. Biden gave a massive press conference at Ifema, the fairgrounds in the Spanish capital where the meeting took place, with which he put an end to his attendance at the allies' summit, before leaving for the US .
He recalled that in the past he had told Putin that if he invaded Ukraine "NATO would not only become stronger, but more united and we would see the world's democracies stand up and oppose their aggression." "And that's exactly what we're seeing today," she said. For Biden, this summit has been about "strengthening" the alliance and responding to the current challenges in the world and the threats that will be faced in the future.
"The world has changed a lot (...) and NATO is changing too, at this summit we have joined with our allies to respond both to the direct threats from Russia in Europe and to the challenges that Russia poses to the rules-based world ", he remarked. Biden stressed in his appearance before the media that the allies will support Kiyv for as long as it takes and that Russia is already paying a high price for the decision to attack the neighboring country.
"Look at the impact that the war in Ukraine has had on Russia, they have had to default on their national debt for the first time since the beginning, almost 100 years," said the US president, who instead From remaining static behind the lectern, there was a point where he began pacing the stage set up in the press room.
Biden explained that Moscow has lost "15 years of gains" in its economy and that its situation will worsen due to restrictions on exports of technological goods to Russia. "They are going to have problems maintaining their oil production because they don't have the technology to do so," the president said, adding that the Russians are going to find themselves in a similar situation when it comes to weapons and their military systems. .
As a result, "they are paying a very, very heavy price for this," he said. The US president took advantage of this speech to report that next week his government will announce the shipment of an additional 800 million dollars in weapons to Ukraine. And it is that, he stressed, his country and NATO are going to be attached to Ukraine.
He assured that the war in that country has dealt a "serious blow" to Russia, since it has lost its international reputation: "Russia is in a position where the whole world is looking and saying, 'Wait a second, all this effort to try to take over the whole country?' They tried to take kyiv, they lost; they tried to take the Dombass, and they haven't done it yet."
The American president pointed out that just as the allies are providing Ukraine with the capabilities to confront Moscow, "the overwhelming courage they are showing has shown, in fact, that they can continue to resist Russian aggression."
Biden admitted that he does not know how the contest will be able to end, but assured that "it will not end with a defeat of Ukraine by Russia in Ukraine." During the first day of the summit, the US president announced an increase in his country's military presence in Europe, specifically in six nations -Poland, Romania, Germany, Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom-, as well as in the region baltic
