{"id":1173424,"date":"2021-12-30T18:19:12","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T23:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1173424"},"modified":"2021-12-30T18:19:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T23:19:15","slug":"biden-vows-decisive-response-to-potential-ukraine-invasion-in-call-with-vladimir-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-vows-decisive-response-to-potential-ukraine-invasion-in-call-with-vladimir-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Vows \u2018Decisive\u2019 Response To Potential Ukraine Invasion In Call With Vladimir Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-vows-decisive-response-to-potential-ukraine-invasion-in-call-with-vladimir-putin%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1173424&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden urged Russian President Vladimir Putin not to invade Ukraine in a phone call Thursday, vowing a \u201cdecisive\u201d response from the U.S. and its allies should there be an attack.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has previously stated that deploying U.S. troops to stop an invasion is \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/08\/joe-biden-sending-us-troops-ukraine-not-on-table\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not on the table<\/a>,\u201d instead focusing on economic reprisals such as sanctions. Russia has had tens of thousands of troops amassed on its border with Ukraine for weeks. The buildup mirrors Russia\u2019s actions prior to invading Crimea in 2014. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/02\/us-threat-russia-ukraine-war-blinken-lavrov\/\">(RELATED:&nbsp;US Issues Threat To European Country Warning About War)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden urged Russia to de-escalate tensions with Ukraine. He made clear that the United States and its allies and partners will respond decisively if Russia further invades Ukraine,\u201d White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement on the call provided to the Daily Caller.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s call with Putin comes roughly two weeks before U.S. and Russian officials <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/28\/russia-biden-putin-ukraine-invade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">will meet face-to-face<\/a> to discuss the situation in Ukraine. Russian officials will also meet with NATO representatives on Jan. 12, followed by a larger meeting with the U.S., Russia and other countries Jan. 13.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7335391\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7335391\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Ukrainian marines prepare to train in urban warfare techniques on the second day of the \u2018Rapid Trident\u2019 bilateral military exercises between the United States and Ukraine that include troops from a variety of NATO and non-NATO countries on September 16, 2014 near Yavorov, Ukraine. (Photo by Sean Gallup\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Biden and allies have promised sweeping economic consequences if Putin orders his military to move forward with an invasion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a moral obligation and a legal obligation to our NATO allies if they were to attack under Article 5, it\u2019s a sacred obligation,\u201d Biden said in early December. \u201cThat obligation does not extend to NATO \u2013 I mean to Ukraine. But it would depend upon what rest of the NATO countries were willing to do as well. But the idea that the United States is going to unilaterally use force to confront Russia invading Ukraine is not on, in the cards right now. What will happen is there will be severe consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have been heavily critical of Biden\u2019s handling of Ukraine, arguing that the president is being too lenient with&nbsp; Putin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Speak loudly and carry a small stick\u2019 is a weak game plan,\u201d Republican Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse told the Daily Caller as Russia\u2019s presence ramped up Dec. 7. \u201cBiden has given Putin the upper hand at almost every turn: letting Russia dictate reciprocal diplomatic representation, waiving sanctions on NordStream 2, and turning the page from Paul Whelan and Alexei Navalny\u2019s unjust imprisonment.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sen. Ted Cruz: \u201cThe Russian troops on the Ukrainian border are Joe Biden\u2019s fault. And they are Senate Democrats fault for being unwilling to stand up to a president of their own party\u201d and sanction Nord Stream 2. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/E65zJ9TKP7\">pic.twitter.com\/E65zJ9TKP7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveGuest\/status\/1468312844215144450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz also took to the Senate floor Dec. 7 and blamed Biden and Democrats entirely for the deteriorating security of Ukraine, arguing their hawkishness on Russia vanished when Trump left office.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden urged Russian President Vladimir Putin not to invade Ukraine in a phone call Thursday, vowing a \u201cdecisive\u201d response from the U.S. and its allies should there be &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1173424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}