Biden declares victory over Putin, as challenges mount in Ukraine posted at 11:47:04 UTC via politico.com - Selected Articles - 7:55 AM 7/30/2023
7:55 AM 7/30/2023 Selected Articles - Michael Novakhov's favorite articles on Inoreader - The News And Times Biden declares victory over Putin, as challenges mount in Ukraine posted at 11:47:04 UTC via politico.com Biden left Europe in a jubilant mood, fresh off essentially welcoming Sweden into the alliance and displaying transatlantic unity that is deeply personal to the president. A day earlier, in the week’s centerpiece speech from the NATO summit in Lithuania, Biden defended his policies and rallied democracies to keep up the fight against tyranny in Ukraine and around the world. And he was able to help ease concerns from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who over the course of the Vilnius summit appeared to abandon his fury that NATO was slow-walking his country’s admission to the alliance. But loose ends and persistent questions remain about the next steps in Europe’s largest land conflict since World War II. And the problem for Biden is that much of what comes ne
