thank you for being here, everyone. i m kate bolduan. president biden is wrapping up his momentous trip overseas to mark the one-year invasion of ukraine. he is meet welcome the bucharest nine in warsaw. the president declaring his unwavering support for the alliance. commitment of the united states and nato, and i ve said it to you many times and i ll say it again is absolutely clear. article 5 is a sacred commitment the united states has made. we will defend literally every inch of nato, every inch of nato. that meeting is one day after president biden accused russia of committing crimes against humanity when he was in ukraine. vladimir putin is having his own series of meetings with china s top diplomat around the time that president biden was in ukraine, russia tried to test a ballistic missile and let s begin with phil mattingly once again in warsaw. what s to come of biden s meetings today. it s interesting. this is not the dramatic symbolism of the monday surpris
that president biden was in ukraine, russia tried to test a ballistic missile and let s begin with phil mattingly once again in warsaw. what s to come of biden s meetings today. it s interesting. this is not the dramatic symbolism of the monday surprise visit to kyiv nor is it the widescale rhetorical flourish that we saw in his prime time remarks in warsaw, but substantively, this meeting that went behind closed doors for more than an hour and we haven t seen the president depart for one point in time and it s critical of the eastern-flanked countries of the alliance and they re the tip of the spear and the front lines and have been very unsettled, as you can imagine by what they ve seen over the course of the last year and this bucharest nine group was developed in the wake of rush s aggression in ukraine and the annexation of crimea and they ve made clear repeatedly over the course of this last year that they need more. they want more help and they want the u.s. not only to commit
Wars are world-shaping. Beyond their immediate human and physical tolls, wars alter the fates of societies and states; of clans, cultures and leaders. Russia's war against Ukraine encompasses all these dangers.