president joe biden renewed his steadfast commitment to the people of ukraine, while in moscow, russia has a lot of with the deliberative defined state fast of a nation address. his first since launching the invasion of ukraine nearly one year ago. putin repeated the lies that he has been spewing for a year, claiming that the west started the war, which he still refers to only as a, quote, special military operation. the russian president also announced he will stop participating in the new start treaty which is the sole remaining nuclear arms control agreement between the united states and russia. in warsaw, president biden responded to putin s threats to their claim that america and its allies will never back down. one year into this war, putin no longer doubts the strength of our coalition. but he still doubts our conviction. he doubts our staying power. he doubts our continued support the ukraine. he doubts that nato can remain unified. but there should be no doubt. our
just a few years ago, michael, we were talking about this. we may have been watching nato come apart. whether you credit joe biden with breathing new life into nato, or putin giving nato a new purpose, today s speech may have been one of the most important pro nato speeches we ve heard in decades. completely! and that great line, putin expected that nato would fall apart are that nato would be finland-nized but instead finland was nato-ized. it was good of new lines like that. it could almost be detail of the speech. the defensive freedom is always difficult. that harkened back to me, back to john kennedy on the first line of the cuban cuban missile site crisis in which he said, verbatim, the cost of freedom is always high, but americans have always paid it. that s what a leader does in wartime. he tells people what he has in mind, lets them know that it s going to involve sacrifice, but in the same time, very truthfully and very precisely