The US President concluded his two-day visit to Poland by a speech in which he violently attacked his Russian counterpart, judging that he could not “stay in power” after his invasion of Ukraine.
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It is in the courtyard of the Royal Castle of Warsaw, in front of several hundred guests, that Joe Biden was applauded, Saturday, March 26, several times, evoking mythical characters from the struggle of Poland for Democracy, like John Paul II and Lech Walesa. On a screen mounted outside, a compact crowd was able to follow the US President’s statements on the war in Ukraine.
“Do not be afraid”: This is how Joe Biden started his speech by almost thirty minutes, recalling the words of Pope John Paul II in 1979, during his first trip to Poland. “Words that changed the world”, insisted the host of the White House. “A year later, the solidarity movement took root. This battle for freedom was not easy, it was long.” Joe Biden also evoked the symbolism of Warsaw, a city “where freedom won ” What earned the left bank of the Polish capital its 105% destruction during the Second World War. The royal castle, which had not escaped Nazi bombing, was rebuilt by the communist power, like the old town.
“The rule of law, free and equitable elections (…) freedom of the press. These are essential principles in a free society. But they have always been besieged (…) Fights in kyiv, Melitopol and Kharkiv are the last battles of a long fight, “continued the 79-year-old Democratic President, listing the Soviet tanks in the Warsaw Pact: in Hungary and Poland, in 1956, in Czechoslovakia, in 1968; or the 1981 martial law in Poland.
Vladimir Putin “can not stay in power”
Returning to the XXI E Century, Joe Biden wanted to disassemble the Kremlin’s current elucubrations – the “Denazification” of Ukraine and the future enlargement of NATO, described by Vladimir Putin as a threat to Russia – and reaffirmed its support for kyiv, victim “of a brutal force and misinformation to satisfy a thirst for absolute power”. The US President recalled the efforts of the West to counter Russian aggression: the imposition of economic sanctions, on the one hand, and the military, economic and humanitarian assistance provided to the Ukrainians, on the other. The US President has also resumed commitments made earlier of the day, during his meeting with the Polish President Andrzej Duda, at the address of Russia: “Do not think of a second to move from one centimeter to The territory of NATO. We have a sacred obligation under Article 5 (…) of NATO “.
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