- President Joe Biden delivered his sternest warning yet to congressional Republicans balking at approving more aid to Ukraine: Pay up now or you’ll pay more later, forced to send U.S. troops to fight Russian soldiers when an emboldened Russian President Vladimir Putin moves in on a NATO member country.
- Noting that underdog Ukraine has managed to hang on for nearly two years after the Russian invasion of its western neighbor, Biden said, “We can’t let Putin win.”
- “If Putin takes Ukraine, he won’t stop there,” Biden warned. And then, “We’ll have something that we don’t seek and that we don’t have today: American troops fighting Russian troops,” Biden said evenly.