President Joe Biden has made an announcement that the United States will ban imports of Russian oil.
19.02.2022 - 02:29 / deadline.com
“We have reason to believe the Russian forces are planning to and intend to attack Ukraine in the coming week, the coming days,” Joe Biden said unequivocally Friday for the first time after weeks of looming crisis in the former USSR.
“We believe that they will target Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, a city of 2.8 million innocent people,” Biden went on to say in dire terms, clearly preparing the U.S. for the clash between Vladimir Putin’s forces and Ukraine, with NATO poised to become involved. “We are calling out Russia’s plans loudly and repeatedly, not because we want a conflict but because we’re doing everything in our power to remove any reason that Russia may give to justify invading Ukraine.”
“The entire free world is united,” Biden declared.
“As of this moment, I’m convinced he’s made the decision,” the president asserted of Putin’s mind-set, speaking during a short back and forth with reporters from the White House’s Roosevelt Room after his formal remarks. “As of this moment, there’s reason to believe that,” Biden added, noting “considerable intelligence” reports. Biden also was again clear that there would be no U.S. troops with boots on the ground in Ukraine, at least not yet.
At this point, it seems Putin is keeping his reported word to ally Chinese President Xi Jinping not to start a war until the Beijing Winter Olympics are over. The games are scheduled to conclude with the traditional closing ceremony on February 20.
With tensions and clashes escalating in eastern Ukraine, Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of State Tony Blinken are meeting face-to-face with European leaders today at the Munich Security Conference. Worth noting that Putin and his top aides are not attending the annual shindig, instead
President Joe Biden has made an announcement that the United States will ban imports of Russian oil.
Joe Biden announced that the U.S. will ban imports of Russian oil, the latest move to sanction Vladimir Putin’s regime after its invasion of Ukraine.
Vladmir Putin's forces have been destroyed by the Ukrainian resistance and Russia could lose the war, a top UK admiral has said.
“You are looking at live pictures of a fire that has broken out at a Ukrainian nuclear power plant in the town of Enerhohrad after an attack by Russian troops,” said CNN’s Erin Burnett tonight in what could literally be the most explosive story out of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of the Eastern European nation so far
In his successful 2020 White House bid, candidate Joe Biden campaigned as a unifier trying to save the soul of America. Last night, in his first State of the Union address, the 46th President of the United States doubled down on that unity theme.
low approval ratings — even among people who previously voted for him in 2020 — Biden attempted to use his speech as a reset for his presidency, decrying Russia and its power-hungry President Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine while offering praise and support for the Ukrainian resistance, and seeking to clarify his (and by extension, his party’s) positions on various domestic issues by calling for programs and bills that would make Americans’ lives easier, fight inflation, get the country back to “normal” following a two-year interruption caused by the pandemic, and calling on states and cities to deal with rising crime rates by fully funding police using money appropriated by the American Rescue Plan.But as he went through the litany of various domestic concerns, Biden seemingly hit on many of the issues and promises he had run on as a candidate for president, even though much of his priorities have been killed in the U.S. Senate, due to the inability to gain 60 votes to overcome the silent filibuster (exacerbated by the refusal of traditionalists to change Senate rules to either eliminate or reduce the 60-vote threshold, or require the minority to actively filibuster pieces of legislation, thereby calling attention to their opposition) as well as political posturing by conservative Democrats like Sens.
President Joe Biden, 79, addressed the nation on the pressing issue of defunding the police during his State of the Union on Tuesday March 1. The president received a standing ovation from both Republicans and Democrats, as he called for providing police with further funding necessary to fight crime in their communities.
Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on Tuesday will focus, as they always do, on a laundry list of priorities, but it may end up being the most memorable for what he says about the unfolding situation in Ukraine.
Former heavyweight boxing champions Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko are vowing to protect Ukraine by fighting on the front lines.
President Joe Biden plans to nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia, to fill the Supreme Court seat following the retirement of Stephen Breyer, according to the Associated Press and other news outlets.
Rachel Maddow will return from her hiatus on Thursday evening to cover the breaking news out of Ukraine.
Joe Biden said that the U.S. and its allies are unleashing a new set of sanctions against Russia following the invasion of Ukraine, insisting that the economic punishment “exceed anything that’s ever been done.”