staying power. he is still making a bad bet that the conviction and the unity among united states and our allies and partners will break down. he still doesn t understand that our commitment, our values, our freedom is something he can never, never, ever ever walk away from. it s who we are. [applause] i mean it, it s who we are. it s who we are. throughout this horrific war, the people with lithuania and the brethren, champions of ukraine s right of a future to its own choosing, one that is free because you live so long with freedom denied. many of you who are older know better than anyone how precious the right to determine your own future is. precious to people everywhere, everywhere. not just in ukraine, belarus, muldova, georgia, and all the places around the world people continue to fight to make their voices heard. so my message, my message to all of you tonight is keep it up, keep it going, keep reminding the world of hope that lithuania embodies and that s what you e
Joined the alliance, i was there with president bush and i think you were, too, and eyes are turning to ukraine and whether or not ukraine will join the alliance as well. do you think nato and the president struck a balance on that front? i don t, i think it was a big mistake. i appreciate as a supporter of ukraine, i appreciated the resolve, but i did not hear to bring the war to a successful conclusion. he talked more about climate change than how we help ukraine win the war, end the war and have a sustainable peace, something we should be doing. so right now he s giving ukraine enough weapons not to lose, but he s not giving them the weapons to win, to win the counteroffensive you have to have tanks, you have to have long range artillery and air power, all the things the united states is refusing to give the ukrainians. the british are giving them, starting to give them long range missiles, the french are, but you know, we are letting them train on f-16s. when is the last time a m
The speech, president biden indicated that ukrainian membership in nato was a matter of when, not if. listen to what he said. i hope we finally have put to bed the notion about whether or not ukraine is welcome and nato is going to happen, moving in the right direction. john: he said it s going to happen but nato said ukraine s future is in nato, we will be in position to extend an invitation to ukraine to join the alliance when allies agree and conditions are met. conditions would be the end of the war because as you pointed out, ukraine can t join nato while it s at war with russia, that would involve all of nato. but does that just give putin a reason to keep this war going as long as he possibly can? he doesn t need a reason to keep the war going. nothing we say or do is going to affect his decision-making one way or another, whether it will the only way to stop hup
Is never going to accept ukraine is an independent country. let s say we get to a ceasefire he s pushed back, he s going to pause, regroup, reconstitute forces and go again like he did after the 2014 invasion. the only way we have a lasting peace we don t have to do it 5, 6, 7 years from now and spend billions to help the ukrainians, make it impossible for putin to achieve his goals. putin has never attacked a nato country. the two countries left out of the nato alliance in 2008 that president bush wanted to bring in, georgia and ukraine, the only two countries putin has attacked. he will not go to war with nato. so the only way you have a peace, a vision for ending this war and ending it with a lasting peace in europe where it does not happen again, if you bring it to the point the ukrainians have taken back enough territory to claim victory and then secure it with nato security guarantees. john: earlier today before
Is make it impossible to achieve his goals and bring ukraine into the nato alliance. it doesn t have to be where the war is over, it has to be when the fighting is over. if you think about south korea where we have the equivalent of an article 5 guarantee, the korean war never ended, it was an armistice, and you have drawn a line for putin saying you can t go past this line again and he won t. sandra: interesting moment when you look at how the president has been handling the press over all the questions, a moment the reporter asked the president a nato question. this was to zelenskyy. watch biden s reaction. how soon after the war would you like to join nato? an hour and 20 minutes. you guys really insightful