Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to White House, this Wednesday (21), will symbolically reinforce the role of the United States as the arsenal of democracy in Ukraine’s bitter war for survival, in addition to sending a public rebuke to the President of Russia Vladimir Putin🇧🇷
The fact that the first trip out of Ukraine since the Russian invasion in February is to the US will also highlight the historic role by President Joe Biden. The American president seeks to revive the Western alliance that kept the Soviet Union in check and is now fighting Moscow’s new expansionism in a war between nuclear superpowers.
Zelensky’s trip marks a milestone in the arrival of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in Washington, who turns 81 on Thursday, days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. That Christmas visit cemented the alliance that would win World War II and build the postwar democratic world.
Ukraine’s president compared his country’s resistance to Russia to Britain’s solitary defiance of the Nazis in the days before the US entered World War II.
The visit is taking place amidst extraordinary security. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did not confirm early reports that she would welcome Zelensky to the US Capitol in an unexpected visit. “We just don’t know [se ele virá]🇧🇷
A White House reception will, above all, be an unmistakable sign of US and Western support for Ukraine’s battle against Putin, who says the country has no right to exist.
The war exemplifies what Biden has defined as a global struggle between democracy and totalitarianism, which he has placed at the center of his foreign policy.
Democrat Rep. Ruben Gallego of Arizona, who visited Ukraine earlier this month, said on CNN’s “AC360” program that Zelensky was coming to Washington on a specific mission.
“What he is trying to do is draw a direct correlation between our support and Ukraine’s future survival, support and victory,” said Gallego, a member of the Armed Services Committee.
Source: CNN Brasil
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