for decades. yeah. no doubt. i mean, joe, hearing that, those comments from governor desantis, i was thinking, wow, what if he answered five more questions on this, what would he exactly say? i mean, the thing that as much as a lot of many republicans think he is their next great hope, and maybe he is in some ways, it wasn t a particularly sophisticated answer. and it was not it was very out of whack with what we ve just seen happen over the last year. what s true, i mean, the b-9 mika was referencing, a year and a half ago, we had a weekly meeting with the national security team and press team. jake sullivan said, i talked to the president about doing a call with the b-9. others would say, who is the b-9? he d say, these are the countries on the front lines. it is poland, of course, but it is estonia, latvia, all these countries literally near the border of russia. they are pivotal in our
poland with the bucharest 9 leaders. let s listen in. the irony is that one of the last conversations i had with the our friend in russia was, i said you keep asking for the finlandization of nato and you re going to get the natoization of finland. well, it happened. not only are we strong, we are stronger. i say to my fellow presidents that i m honored to be with you here and so many strong nato allies. and the secretary general, who i think has done an incredible job, an incredible job for a long time, i rely on his judgment a great deal. you know, the b-9 was founded in 2015 after russia attempted
the president will have a chance to thank poland for how they hosted an increased number of u.s. forces including those permanently stationed and those deployed to europe as part of our force posture adjustments, the ones we announced last year following russia s invasion, are some 10,000 american troops in poland right now most of them on rotational orders. on tuesday evening local time president biden will deliver remarks in warsaw on how the united states has rallied the world to support the people of ukraine and as they defend their freedom and democracy. president biden will make it clear that the united states will continue to stand with ukraine as you ve heard him say many times for as long as it takes. on wednesday president biden will get a chance to meet with the leaders of the bucharest 9 otherwise known as the b-9 largely the group of eastern flank nato allies who are basically and quite frankly literally on the front lines of our collective defense right