Posted on 12/20/2022 2:58:56 PM PST by Zhang Fei
President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky are planning to meet at the White House on Wednesday, according to two sources familiar with the planning underway, in what would be a surprise visit that could change based on security concerns.
The visit, which hasn’t been finalized and has remained tightly held due to security concerns, will coincide with the administration’s intent to send the country a new defense assistance package that will include Patriot missile systems. It would mark Zelensky’s first trip outside Ukraine since the Russian invasion began in February of this year. His potential visit to Washington could also include an address to Congress.
The White House declined to comment on a potential visit or Biden announcement or new security assistance announcements. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wouldn’t confirm reports Zelensky would be coming to the Capitol on Wednesday, saying, “I don’t know that that’s going to happen.”
“We don’t know yet. We just don’t know,” she said.
When asked by CNN if the invitation had been made to him, she said: “No. Not until we know if he can come.”
A visit by the Ukrainian leader to Washington would amount to a significant moment 10 months since Russia’s war in Ukraine began. Zelensky has emerged as an international personification of Ukrainian resistance to the invasion and has spent much of the year asking nations for support.
He’s delivered those appeals virtually, beaming into international summits and global legislatures to make his case for more weapons and funding. He has remained inside his country for the duration of the war, a reflection both of his desire to rally his besieged country and the precarious security situation he would face outside Ukraine.
At the start of the war, Zelensky remained bunkered down in the capital Kyiv
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Zelensky to address a joint session of Congress. He’s said to be fluent in English. Will he deliver a speech in English? I heard an English language interview with Poroshenko. He was sharp. I’d expect no less from Zelensky. But we’ll see.
Will he bring a sack to fill up like “The Grinch”?
Better quality coke there, no doubt.
He seems to do a lot of travelling for a guy supposedly fighting for his people.
Jail him for theft of US property and money laundering.
Fag doesn’t need the billions upon billions sent over there. He’s fracking laundering most of it to the Swamp elite because their millennial crypto boy who laundered it before crashed and burned.
Will Hunter be there?
Gonna be interesting to see if he’s allowed back in Ukraine, or even wants to go back, considering that Azovs (US-supported Brownshirts) are there to make sure he obeys orders from DC.
Is McConnell going to hand Zelensky the 45 billion they passed today? Asking for a friend.
One of the things that surprises me in WWII is how much the leaders travelled.
Churchill and Roosevelt met in person several times over the course of the war, despite the obvious risks of crossing the Atlantic.
Like Zelensky, they realized that it is often essential to meet in person.
Churchill did a lot of traveling during WWII, and a lot of it was begging for aid from the United States, before we entered the war.
I see Putin doing a lot of traveling as well.
Part of the job of a war leader.
Hopefully he we call Biden out for the poor quality aid.
He should bring some examples of the 40 year old Soviet junk that is most of what Biden expects the Ukrainians to fight with.
Dear Putin,
Launch some nukes at DC please
His wife wanted to go shopping again ...
Cocaine Mitch.
He wants more money….
I say go get it from Europe….get Hunter to give a few million back..
Zelensky can’t make illicit deals via computer or telephone and so has to meet his fellow thieves in person.
Like Zelensky, they realized that it is often essential to meet in person.
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And politically advantageous. You can’t beat those kinds of photo ops.
I hope he addresses a joint session “in English”
Americans aren’t known for speaking any other language
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