Thursday, November 17, 2022

An Inside Look At The U.S. Reaction To Tuesday's Missile Strike On Ukraine

In this photo provided by the White House, President Joe Biden talks on the phone with Polish President Andrzej Duda as White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, center, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken listen, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, in Nusa Dua, Indonesia. (Adam Schultz/The White House)

 

CNN: Inside the US scramble to run down the facts as the Russia-Ukraine war spills into NATO territory  

Washington CNN — President Joe Biden was asleep on the other side of the world when aides woke him up in the middle of the night there with urgent news: a missile had struck Poland and killed two people. 

By 5:30 am local time in Bali, where the president was attending the G20 summit, Biden, still in a t-shirt and khakis, was on the phone with his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda seeking clarity on where the missile had actually come from – a critical fact due to the potentially dire implications of a Russian missile strike on a NATO ally. 

 Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who was traveling with Biden, had also been roused with a knock on the door by his body man around 4 a.m. local time with news of the explosion, a US official said – news that most US officials only discovered from public reports and conversations with Polish officials.  

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WNU Editor: If this account is true, it shows that there exists a lot of differences between the Biden administration and Ukraine President Zelensky. At least on this incident.

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