
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Wednesday slammed Missouri senator Josh Hawley’s call for the US to retract support for Ukraine becoming a signatory of the North Atlantic Treaty as “not aligned with long standing bipartisan American values” and the result of the senator “parroting Russian talking points”.
Speaking at the White House daily press briefing, Ms Psaki was asked about comments Mr Hawley made to Axios in which he said keeping the US commitment to Nato’s open-door policy for Ukraine and Georgia — first laid out by President George W Bush at the 2008 Bucharest Summit — could undermine US efforts to counter China.