The President of the United States, Joe Biden, resumes activity in his country this Friday, after returning on the eve of the NATO summit held in Madrid, with the prospect of facing a second Cold War with Russia very possibly long-lasting due to the conflict in Ukraine.
Biden returns to his country after making it clear that the US is the leader in NATO, where he announced an increase in the US military presence in Europe , in addition to having contributed to lifting the Turkish blockade on the accession of Sweden and Finland to the Alliance.
All this with the aim of protecting the territory of NATO, which, according to himself, he said in the press conference with which he closed his attendance at the Madrid summit, now it is a stronger organization and more united than before the war in Ukraine; a conflict that different interlocutors have predicted could go on for a long time.
Without mentioning a date, Biden himself hinted that the contest could drag on, when he indicated that the allies will support kyiv for as long as necessary.
The partners of NATO will shield the territory of the alliance
And in the face of the possibility that the conflict expands to other countries, NATO partners, and specifically the US. , they are going to shield the territory of the alliance.
As soon as he arrived on Wednesday at Ifema, the fairgrounds in the Spanish capital where the summit took place, the president announced an increase in the military presence of USA in Europe.
Specifically, Washington is going to increase its presence in six nations -Poland , Romania, Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom and Germany-, in addition to the “Baltic” region.
In Poland, the US is going to establish a permanent headquarters, while after that to Romania it will send an additional rotating brigade; Spain will send two additional destroyer ships to the Rota naval base; and in the United Kingdom it will add two fighter-bomber squadrons.
In Germany it will place an air defense artillery brigade, a short-range air defense battalion and an engineering brigade with about 625 total soldiers; and in Italy, it will locate a battery of anti-aircraft defenses, with 78 soldiers.
With this decision, Biden has underpinned the US leadership role in NATO, after initially betting of his mandate and before the Russian aggression in Ukraine due to a decrease in the number of soldiers that the US has deployed abroad.
“The price of oil is high for Russia, Russia, Russia”
Now it is necessary to explain this war wager to the American public opinion, at a time when it is facing numerous criticisms at the domestic level for inflation galloping and with a country split in two by the controversial ruling of the Supreme Court to repeal the right to abortion.
Regarding the famine, the president wanted to make it clear from the NATO podium what is coming repeating like a mantra: the blame for the rise in prices lies with Russia.
And the He repeated up to three times in case someone had not heard him correctly: “The price of oil is high because of Russia, Russia, Russia,” Biden said in his last appearance before the press in Madrid, while noting that the reason for the crisis global food industry is “because Russia is not allowing cereal to leave Ukraine”.
The economic data does not support Biden ahead of the mid-term elections in November in the US, where some forecasts predict that the Democrats will lose control of both houses of Congress.
The price of a gallon of gasoline (3,65 liters) in the US last Saturday reached 5 dollars, a record that occurs when the country is experiencing the highest inflation in 40 years, when shooting in May at 8.6%.
This new rise in consumer prices is driven, above all, by the sharp rise in energy prices.
Beyond the summit of NATO, Biden met on Tuesday with the head of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, and with the King of Spain, Felipe VI, on a first day in the country in which he took the opportunity to inform the dispatch of two additional destroyers to Rota .
Russia is going to pay a high price for the invasion of Ukraine
The president arrived in Madrid from Elmau, in the south of Germany, where he took part in the summit of the G7 leaders, made up of the USA, Germany, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Canada and Japan, and the European Union.
At the meeting in Germany, the leaders of this club of the powerful amplified their condemnation of Russia and endorsed their unlimited support for Ukraine.
In his agenda for the G7, Biden brought sanctions against Moscow, the proposal to ban gold imports Russian and the imposition of imposing a price cap on oil from that country.
In their final declaration, the seven most industrialized countries ialized in the world established the possibility of prohibiting the transport of Russian crude oil unless its sale respects a maximum price agreed with international partners.
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As Biden later said at NATO: Russia is going to pay a heavy price for invading Ukraine.