{"id":1306731,"date":"2022-02-17T13:53:17","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T18:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1306731"},"modified":"2022-02-17T13:53:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T18:53:24","slug":"joe-biden-sours-ukraine-ties-so-much-that-white-house-sends-kamala-harris-to-meet-zelensky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-sours-ukraine-ties-so-much-that-white-house-sends-kamala-harris-to-meet-zelensky\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden Sours Ukraine Ties So Much that White House Sends Kamala Harris to Meet Zelensky"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fjoe-biden-sours-ukraine-ties-so-much-that-white-house-sends-kamala-harris-to-meet-zelensky%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=1306731&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 class=\"subheading\">The White House confirmed Vice President Kamala Harris will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Munich, Germany, this weekend \u2013 a chance to mend ties increasingly strained by President Joe Biden\u2019s loud insistence Zelensky may soon lose his country to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Much of Western media is currently riveted by concerns that Russia will launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine triggered by Biden announcing that the United States would not intervene in the event of a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/20\/zelensky-to-biden-no-minor-incursions\/\">minor incursion<\/a>.\u201d Biden\u2019s remarks occurred at a January press conference in which he said he believed Russian leader Vladimir Putin had already decided that he would launch such an invasion. Alarmed observers noted that the Russian military had stationed tens of thousands of troops in Russian and Belarusian territories surrounding Ukraine.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Zelensky <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2022\/01\/28\/zelensky-says-ukraine-lost-almost-500-million-to-biden-war-hype-we-dont-need-this-panic\/\">attempted<\/a> to calm the climate following Biden\u2019s \u201cminor incursion\u201d remarks by noting that the number of Russian troops near Ukraine during the same time period in 2021 was not significantly different. He has also highlighted that, when he has attempted to alert the world of actual imminent threats to his country in the past, such as his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-59428712\">revelation<\/a> of an alleged coup plot against him in November, the world largely ignored him.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky and Putin has since engaged in two extended phone calls about the situation that have led to reports of personal conflict and mixed messages from the White House and the office of the Ukrainian president.<\/p>\n<p>An unnamed senior Biden administration official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/press-briefings\/2022\/02\/16\/background-press-call-previewing-the-vice-presidents-trip-to-munich-germany\/\">confirmed<\/a> on Wednesday that Harris would be attending the Munich Security Conference in that city this weekend and a sideline meeting with Zelensky was on her schedule.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ukraine on Monday dismissed the Biden State Department&#8217;s withdrawal of the families of U.S. embassy staff in Kyiv as &#8220;premature.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6nyqLuyAi7\">https:\/\/t.co\/6nyqLuyAi7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1485765049293680641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cObviously, we\u2019re focused mostly on the very serious threat to the country of Ukraine. But it goes beyond that. Russia poses a threat, in what it\u2019s doing here, to the European and international order,\u201d the administration official said. \u201cAnd the Vice President will underscore that and make it clear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne is that she\u2019ll meet with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine,\u201d the official continued, \u201cAnd that\u2019ll be a real opportunity to underscore our commitment to Ukraine\u2019s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and to further coordinate the diplomatic efforts that have been underway to provide economic and defensive security assistance to Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/08\/kamala-harris-quietly-stops-meeting-world-leaders-separately-in-d-c\/\">tasked<\/a> Harris with meeting foreign leaders on a regular basis for much of 2021, baffling observers who wondered why the second-in-command was holding photo opportunities and conversations typically reserved for the president. At the peak of White House\u2019s deployment of Harris to foreign visitors, the vice president met with five leaders in September: then-Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Ghanian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, she met with the other two North American heads of government \u2013 embattled Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador \u2013 in November.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Harris suddenly stopped meeting foreign leaders in early 2022 amid reports of a \u201creset\u201d of her relationship with Biden.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kamala Harris was accused of faking a French accent during her visit Tuesday to the Pasteur Institute in Paris. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1r2PwAScrU\">https:\/\/t.co\/1r2PwAScrU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1458810579716612103?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 11, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Biden\u2019s personal relationship with Zelensky has also given indications that it could use its own \u201creset.\u201d Zelensky has been expressing outrage and disbelief at Biden\u2019s foreign policy since at least June, when the American president announced he would lift sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 project, a gas pipeline that would connect Germany to Russia directly, enriching the latter greatly and sidelining Ukraine\u2019s natural gas market.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/06\/07\/ukraines-zelensky-unpleasantly-surprised-disappointed-by-biden-pro-putin-policies\/\">told<\/a> the Washington outlet Axios that he found out about the move from the media, not from any American government sources, and that he was \u201cunpleasantly surprised\u201d and \u201cdisappointed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand that the relationship between the United States and Germany is very important. I wouldn\u2019t want to intervene between these two esteemed countries. However, how many Ukrainian lives does the relationship between the United States and Germany cost?\u201d Zelensky asked.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Ukraine leader also demanded to meet with Biden before the latter scheduled an in-person meeting with Putin, a demand Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/06\/07\/jjoe-biden-snubs-volodymyr-zelensky-plea-for-personal-meeting-before-vladimir-putins\/\">ignored<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Interactions since Biden\u2019s \u201cminor incursion\u201d remark have not appeared less tense. The two had a phone conversation in late January that launched a barrage of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/28\/releasethetranscript-calls-grow-as-white-house-ukraine-dispute-cnn-rumors-on-biden-zelensky-phone-call\/\">rumors<\/a> that Biden had ranted to Zelensky about the Russians \u201csacking\u201d Kyiv, the national capital, and Zelensky had pleaded with Biden to \u201ccalm down.\u201d The White House and the Ukrainian government denied the reports. Zelensky published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/28\/ukraine-releases-photos-of-president-zelensky-after-controversial-biden-phone-call\/\">photos<\/a> of the discussion on social media that did not indicate he had enjoyed the conversation.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19920658\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238528195.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19920658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238528195-1024x682-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"659\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (C) arrives to attend a military drill outside the city of Rivne, northern Ukraine on February 16, 2022. (ARIS MESSINIS\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Zelensky later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2022\/01\/28\/zelensky-says-ukraine-lost-almost-500-million-to-biden-war-hype-we-dont-need-this-panic\/\">told<\/a> reporters that Biden\u2019s war hysteria had cost Ukraine hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign investment and lamented the lack of tact and diplomacy in discussing a potential extension of the war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mentioned this to President Biden \u2026 we need to stabilize the economy of our country because of those signals which say that tomorrow there will be war,\u201d Zelensky said, \u201cbecause these signals were sent by even leaders of the respected countries, sometimes they are not even using diplomatic language! They are saying, \u2018Tomorrow is the war.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/14\/ukraine-zelensky-says-no-info-on-imminent-russian-war-tells-joe-biden-to-come-to-kyiv\/\">invited<\/a> Biden to Kyiv during a call this weekend, according to his press office, to show the world that Kyiv was not on the verge of collapse. The White House readout of the call did not mention the invitation and Biden has, as of press time, ignored it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1645098849783000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3UFK7wkJ2W9bIyP0rR9h7l\">Facebook<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1645098849783000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1cfkZHOxvnOMzz0nbUwjvO\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House confirmed Vice President Kamala Harris will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Munich, Germany, this weekend \u2013 a chance to mend ties increasingly strained by President &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1306731","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\/1306731","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1306731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306731\/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=1306731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1306731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}