Biden Gives A Speech In Warsaw, Saying Ukraine Will Never Be A Victory For Russia

On Mar 26th, the U.S. President Joe Biden delivered a speech in the Polish capital Warsaw, praising Ukrainian people for their bravery to resist Russian aggression. He called on the united efforts of the world’s democracies to support Ukraine’s battle for freedom and warned Russian President Putin not to attempt to conduct military operations in NATO’s territory.

Biden concluded his speech with “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power”. Biden pointed out nothing about whether that battle for freedom was simple or easy, it was a long, painful slog fought over not days and months, but years and decades. The free world could always be revitalized in the battle between democracy and autocracy, between liberty and repression, between a rules-based order and one governed by brute force. Biden emphasized that a dictator bent on rebuilding an empire would never erase a people’s love for liberty. Brutality would never grind down people’s will to be free.

Ukraine would never be a victory for Russia for free people who refused to live in a world of hopelessness and darkness. In the Warsaw speech, Biden also criticized the Kremlin’s efforts to portray NATO enlargement as an imperial project aimed at destabilizing Russia, whereas NATO was a defensive alliance and had never sought the demise of Russia. In the lead-up to the current crisis, the U.S. and NATO had been working for months to engage Russia to avert a war.