the fact that russia is saying now it will not go along anymore with any inspections on a full withdrawal, but the significance of that and the fact that antony blinken the secretary of state said it is deeply unfortunate in any event and irresponsible said the u.s. will talk to russia about this at any point regardless of what is happening on the world stage with russia and ukraine. that is how critical the u.s. believes this is. absolutely critical. look, the only way that the nuclear threat is going to cool down in any way is if you look at past history where the united states and formerly the soviet union agreed to have their salt talks, to have the start talks, and then to continue with the new start talks that we see right now. that competition has been in place for over four to five decades and it must be addressed. look, one nuclear weapon alone is sufficient to give us all concern, right? what we re talking about is russia has in excess of 5,000 nuclear weapons. th
signal to ask the polish people, your presence is important from the presence of the security. we are delighted you will give your speech, mr. president, here in poland. we are delighted that this message will be sent from here of you, sir, a message addressing the whole world because i am sure that the whole world is going to follow inyour speech. thank you for this decision. we are very glad with it. on the one hand it proves how force it is important for the united states, how our part of europe is important from the united states and also to us. it is to a certain aextent confirmation we are going the right thing. the actions which we have been taking, ukraine, supporting ukraine, by send is weapons to ukraine birx helping ukrainians, by supporting them in all different ways, it is proof this is the right path, it is a proof that we are supporting in this
allies from the eastern flank of nato because to all of us this video is symbolic to our region. we are saying it not only as a visit paid here in poland, it is a visit to our region combined with a visit to kyiv. it sends a powerful message of responsibility which the united states of america carries constantly the responsibility for the security of europe and the world. the united states which has demonstrated on multiple occasions its responsibility for european matters during the first world war, during the second world war, during the cold war, every single time they restored the democratic rules every time the united states brought back freedom. people were able to restore their freedom, sometimes after the tens of years as in poland in 1989. thanks to the movement of solidarity of course here in poland, thanks to that determination of the people,
i d like one. and we are walking from the desk to the other end, having a photograph, and he put his hand and he said, senator, remember today i spoke to you as a pole, a proud pole, not as your pope. as a pole. so i realize the power of poland all across the look, all kidding aside, that happens to be a true story. i was here last year. we visited the base where polish and american troops are and standing side by side, showing our strength and determination. the truth of the matter is, the united states needs poland and nato as much as nato needs the united states because there is no way in which for our ability to operate anywhere else in the world and our responsibilities extend beyond europe, we have to have security in europe. it s that basic. that simple. that consequential the.
who are destroying the infrastructure which is used by people for their everyday lives. i am thinking here fortunately about our european neighbors, russian, russian authorities, power play who almost one year ago decided to attack a free independent and sovereign country. on a full scale. he scare eid out a full-scale attack. the first attack was carried out in 2014, as a matter of fact. however, after eight years vladimir putin decided to attack ukraine on a full scale causing a tragedy and a catastrophe for millions of the inhabitants of ukraine and causing a huge crisis both a crisis of security and economic cry ace sul over the world and also a humanitarian crisis. and thus, he doomed millions of people to tragic fate. people had to flee from their