![]() Before the accident, train workers had worried that the 151-car train, 9,300 feet long and weighing 18,000 tons, was too long and too heavy to travel safely.īut Buttigieg is answering his Republican critics. The right wing has also gone after Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg for the accident, although it was the Trump administration that weakened safety regulations put in place under Barack Obama that could have mitigated the crisis, and railroad personnel cuts that left the train understaffed. In fact, Republican governor Mike DeWine initially rejected federal help when Biden offered it, saying he didn’t see the need for it. Right-wing media has been trying to spin Biden’s trip to Kyiv and speech in Poland as proof that he doesn’t care about the derailment of the train carrying hazardous chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio. aid to Ukraine and urging “a peace agreement,” a position that accepts Russia’s invasion as legitimate. Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and ten other Republican representatives recently introduced to Congress a “Ukraine Fatigue” resolution calling for an end to U.S. Led by Representative Mike McCaul (R-TX), the new chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, they pledged their support for Ukraine.īut extremist Republicans stand against continuing Ukraine aid. The line drew applause, and indeed, five Republican lawmakers met with Zelenskyy in Kyiv today. That’s who Americans are, and that’s what Americans do.” Over the past year, Democrats and Republicans in our United States Congress have come together to stand for freedom. “All across my country, in big cities and small towns, Ukrainian flags fly from American homes. “The American people are united in our resolve as well,” he said. “We will stand with you.”ĭuring his speech, Biden thanked Poland for taking in 1.5 million Ukrainian refugees, then turned to the United States. The enemy of the tyrant and the hope of the brave and the truth of the ages. “And all that we do now must be done so our children and grandchildren will know it as well. “Americans know that, and you know it,” Biden told his Polish audience. There is no higher aspiration than freedom.” Between nothing less than limitation and possibilities, the kind of possibilities that come when people…live not in captivity but in freedom. ![]() Between democracy that lifts up the human spirit and the brutal hand of the dictator who crushes it. It’s time to choose “between chaos and stability,” he said. The democracies of the world have to deliver it for our people.” Looking at the coalition that supports Ukraine, he said: “We need to take the strength and capacity of this coalition and apply it to lifting up-lifting up the lives of people everywhere, improving health, growing prosperity, preserving the planet, building peace and security, treating everyone with dignity and respect. For free people refuse to live in a world of hopelessness and darkness.”īiden said it’s time to decide what kind of world we want to build. And Ukraine-Ukraine will never be a victory for Russia. “Brutality will never grind down the will of the free. “A dictator bent on rebuilding an empire will never be able to the people’s love of liberty,” he said. But the autocrats of the world have grown weaker, not stronger.” The democracies of the world have grown stronger, not weaker. ![]() Putin “thought autocrats like himself were tough and leaders of democracies were soft,” Biden said, but he “found himself at war with a nation led by a man whose courage would be forged in fire and steel: President Zelenskyy.” A year later, “President Putin is confronted with something today that he didn’t think was possible a year ago. ![]() ![]() The 2022 Russian invasion tested the world’s democracies, Biden said, and they stood up for national sovereignty, for the right of people to live free from aggression, and for democracy. sent the largest delegation ever to the conference and that the delegation was bipartisan.īiden began his speech noting that a year ago “the world was bracing for the fall of Kyiv.” But he had just come from there and could report: “Kyiv stands strong! Kyiv stands proud. It built on Vice President Kamala Harris’s speech to the Munich Security Conference saying that Russian atrocities in Ukraine are crimes against humanity. Speaking at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland, today, President Biden continued to define this global moment as one in which democracies are defending their way of life against rising authoritarianism.īiden’s speech followed his surprise visit to Kyiv yesterday, a visit that demonstrated for the world that Putin has failed to take the city in a year of brutal assaults. ![]()
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