Before US Congress, President Biden Explains Troop Dispatch: To Protect NATO, Not For Conflict With Russia

AS President Joe Biden (Foto via @POTUS)

JAKARTA - For the first time after serving as President of the United States (US), Joe Biden delivered a state speech. And the issue of tension in Ukraine was one of the things Biden said.

Biden's State of the Union address is held at the US House of Representatives in Washington DC, Tuesday, March 1, US time. In front of congress, President Biden promised not to deploy troops to Ukraine after the Russian invasion.

"Let me be clear – our forces are not involved and will not conflict with Russian forces. In Ukraine", Biden said.

The President said American troops were deployed to Europe not to fight in Ukraine, but to defend NATO allies if at any time Russian President Vladimir Putin decided to continue moving west.

"To that end, we have mobilized American ground forces, air squadrons, ship deployments to protect NATO countries including Poland, Romania, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia", Biden said.

Biden refers to NATO's Article 5 principles. It states that an attack on a NATO country is a sign of a threat to all member countries.

"As I've made clear, the United States and our Allies will defend every inch of NATO's territory with the full force of our collective might", Biden said.

Biden became one of the initiators of the massive sanctions imposed by the world on Russia. And as a result, Russia is now completely isolated from the world and that has never happened before.

US skies have also been closed to all Russian flights. This will further hit Russia and add additional pressure to Putin's economy.

The US eventually joined Canada and the European Union is closing its airspace to Russian aircraft. Before European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the entire EU would close its airspace to Russian aircraft, several European countries including Germany, France, and Italy have already done so.

“Six days ago, Vladimir Putin of Russia attempted to shake the foundations of the free world. Thinking he could make her submit to his threatening ways. But he miscalculated. He thought he could roll over to Ukraine and the world would roll. Instead, he was met with a wall of power he never expected or imagined. He met the Ukrainians", Biden said.