to reduce your dependence on russian energy. putin has issued russia s energy resources to coerce and manipulate its neighbors. that s how he s using it. he s using the promise to drive his war machine. after the brussels summit, mr. biden flew to poland meeting u.s. troops stationed there. he said the pushback against russia is about far more than ukraine alone. what s at stake is not just what we re doing here in ukraine, to try to help the ukrainian people and keep the massacre from continuing. beyond that, what s at stake. what are your kids and grandkids going to look like in terms of their freedom. what you re engaging in is much more than you can alleviate the pain and suffering of people of ukraine. we re in a new phase, your generation, we re at an inflexion point. in addition to his speech today, mr. biden is also set to talk to the polish president
road ahead. it was really the genesis of the president s decision to make these remarks in warsaw, to underscore that the western unity that we have seen over the course of the last four months, it can t just be a one-time thing or one-month thing. it has to be sustained not for days, not for weeks, not for months, but for years, maybe even longer as the world, at least according to the president, has entered a very clear and very real inflexion point. phil mattingly, thanks very much. in warsaw. here in lviv, fire crews were battling a huge blaze after russian missiles struck a fuel stormg facility. cnn s don lemon was on the scene moments after the attack. you could hear the flames roaring and and what they are concerned about is another one of these tanks exploding, so they are pushing people back until they can get control of this blaze. you were mentioning how close it is to a neighborhood. it is really close to a neighborhood. it is on the other side, there is a little vall
al alive. that promise is at risk, targeted by the forces that value brute strength over the sanctity of democracy. fear over hope. personal gain over public good. make no mistake about it, we re living at an inflexion point in history. both home and abroad, we re engaged anew in a struggle between democracy and autocracy. between the aspirations of the many and the greed of the few. between the people s right of self-determination and self-seeking autocrat. from china to russia and beyond, they re betting that democracy s days are numbered. told me democracy is too slow, too bogged down by division, to succeed in today s rapidly changing complicated world.
house correspondent kaitlan collins. kaitlan, talk to us about this. this is something that biden has talked about for a long time. a long time. what does he want out of this? they want it told in person. that wasn t feasible with 110 countries, that have been invited, but ever since biden took office and before that, you ve seen him frame this global conversation and a global kind of inflexion point as democracies versus these countries that are run by authoritarians. he said that we have to make a decision, you know, as a globe, of which direction we want to go in. that was a big message he took to the g-7, his first big summit in person with other world leaders, let s show other nations that democracies can work, they can put accomplishments on the table. that will be the broader conversation you see from president biden when he speaks any moment now on this. what do you think he ll say, even if in veiled terms, about china and russia? i think you ve seen him working to underc