The American presidentJoe Biden considered that the success ofUkraine It isIsrael It is vital for the national security of the United States, and warned about the dire consequences that the success of dictators and terrorists implies for the international order.
“I know these conflicts may seem far away. It's natural to ask: Why does the United States care about this? The success of Israel and Ukraine is vital to our national security. History has taught us that when terrorists and dictators do not pay a price, they cause more death and destruction,” the president said on his X account.
In his speech last Thursday, Biden called this moment in history a "turning point,"a battle between the democracies and autocracies of the world. In addition, he condemned the actions of Hamas and the Russian presidentVladimir Putin, saying thatattacks on Israel andthe invasion of Ukraine They have common reasons.
"Hamas and Putin pose different threats, but they share something in common: they both want to completely annihilate neighboring democracies."said the American leader in his speech, broadcast in prime time and seen by some 20.3 million people.
Referring to the need to continue helping Israel and Ukraine in their respective war conflicts, Biden warned that if the Islamist group Hamas and Putin do not pay for the pain they have caused in Israel and Ukraine, more "chaos" and "destruction" could be unleashed. in the world.
Broadcast from the Oval Office of the White House, the American president's speech harangued his citizens about his country's fundamental role in defending democracy around the world, an idea embedded in the global superpower that guides US foreign policy. the nation under the principle of "American exceptionalism."
"Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people. Hamas uses Palestinian civilians as human shields, and innocent Palestinian families are suffering enormously for it," Biden said, also accusing Putin of denying Ukraine the right to exist as an independent state.
Warning of the consequences of the success of authoritarian models such as that ofChina andRussia, President Biden called for maintaining commitment and support for kyiv in the face of the danger that the conflict could spread to other parts of Europe, even to allies of theI'LL TAKE like Poland.
"We will defend every inch of NATO," Biden reaffirmed, using words that, according toWHICH, has already used other times to show its support for the principle of collective defense of the Alliance, in which an attack against one of the members is considered an attack against all.
His speech, which lasted about 15 minutes, was broadcast live on the country's main television networks. US presidents often give these types of speeches when they want to convey a sense of gravity and urgency to the nation.
"We will not allow terrorists like Hamas and tyrants like Putin to succeed. I refuse to allow that to happen. In times like this, we must remember who we are. "We are the United States of America and there is nothing that is not within our reach if we do not do it together," the president concluded.
The words of the American president went down badly in the Kremlin, where his spokesman,Dmitri Peskov, described as "unacceptable" the comparison of the Russian president with the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).
“We do not accept that tone towards the Russian Federation and towards our president,” declared Peskov, denouncing a kind of collective fixation within the American elites with respect to Putin. "It is a constant (...) Putin's name is an integral part of the internal political life of the United States."
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