At the end of Volodymyr Zelensky’s address to Congress, he made a direct appeal to President Biden in English. “Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace,” he said. But the undercurrent of his remarks was disappointment.
. Other Republicans had previously expressed skepticism about U.S. coöperation with Western allies, Pew noted. Today, seventy-three per cent of Republicans favor working closely with allies on the Ukraine crisis—and doing more for Ukraine. “Let’s send them airplanes, let’s send them air defense systems, and let’s do it faster,” Senator Jim Risch, a Republican from Idaho and the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said after Zelensky’s speech.
In a direct appeal to Joe Biden, the Ukrainian President said, “Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace.”Hours later, Biden announced another eight hundred million dollars in military aid—bringing the total in less than a week to a billion—to help Ukraine fight what he called the “God-awful invasion.” The American people are “answering President Zelensky’s call for more help, more weapons for Ukraine,” Biden, flanked by top military and diplomatic advisers, said.
At the end of his speech, Zelensky made a direct appeal to Biden, in English. “Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace,” he said. The undercurrent of his remarks, however, was disappointment inand other international institutions that he believes have failed Ukraine. The world needs to “create new tools”—including institutions and alliances—“to respond quickly” to stop the current war and to deal with future conflicts, natural disasters, humanitarian crises, and pandemics.