President Joe Biden departs for Europe on Wednesday as tensions with Russia are at levels unseen since the fall of the Soviet Union more than 30 years ago.
The focus of Biden and other world leaders has been on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ongoing unprovoked invasion of Ukraine and the ensuing security and humanitarian crises with the outbreak of war on NATO’s eastern doorstep.
The president is scheduled to be in Brussels on Thursday for a NATO summit, meetings with fellow G-7 leaders and a previously scheduled European Council summit. He will then travel to Poland, which has been receiving a flood of Ukrainian refugees at the same time NATO forces have been working to strengthen defenses against any expansion of Russian aggression beyond Ukraine.
