White House: Biden to visit Poland on Europe trip this week

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Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has added a stop in Poland to his trip this week to Europe for urgent talks with NATO and European allies, as Russian forces concentrate their fire upon cities and trapped civilians in a nearly month-old invasion of Ukraine.

Biden will first travel to Brussels and then to Poland to meet with leaders there, press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement Sunday night.

Poland is a crucial ally in the Ukraine crisis. It is hosting thousands of American troops and is taking in more people fleeing the war in Ukraine — more than 2 million — than any other nation in the midst of the largest European refugee crisis in decades.

Biden will head to Warsaw for a bilateral meeting with President Andrzej Duda scheduled for Saturday. Biden will discuss how the U.S., along with its allies and partners, is responding to “the humanitarian and human rights crisis that Russia’s unjustified and unprovoked war on Ukraine has created,” Psaki said.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-biden-united-states-europe-jen-psaki-91f79d3c9270cdedb6e702d41195fca8

[C Moon]

1. Can you imagine over 2,000,000 people coming into your country in such a short matter of time.

That's crazy!!

[wnylib]

2. I worry about Biden's exposure to

covid on these trips. I know that he takes precautions, but trips mean being around a lot of people.

[quakerboy]

3. I have a question

What would happen if Biden. Or Johnson. or Macron. or Steinmeier decided to make a state visit to Kyiv and the Ukranian president?

Like.. visiting other countries is a thing leaders do. Would Putin dare to keep up bombardment with a foreign leader publicly visiting the city, and the fallout sure to come from killing, accidentally or purposefully, such a person?

Secondary question.. what would happen if all the leaders of eu, nato, and allied countries each decided to visit, in turn.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Wow, visiting Europe during continent-wide conflict

American leadership on parade.