{"id":1306739,"date":"2022-02-17T13:53:26","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T18:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1306739"},"modified":"2022-02-17T13:53:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T18:53:40","slug":"biden-ends-speech-by-saying-he-has-to-return-to-dc-because-of-little-thing-going-on-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-ends-speech-by-saying-he-has-to-return-to-dc-because-of-little-thing-going-on-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Ends Speech By Saying He Has To Return To DC Because Of \u2018Little Thing Going On In Europe\u2019"},"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\">38<\/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-ends-speech-by-saying-he-has-to-return-to-dc-because-of-little-thing-going-on-in-europe%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=1306739&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--><div><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden ended an infrastructure speech Thursday in Ohio by saying he had to return to Washington, D.C. to handle a \u201clittle thing going on in Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden was referring to a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine, which Biden has said he still believes is likely. While reports last week <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/16\/joe-biden-ned-price-russia-invasion-ukraine-february-16\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">suggested<\/a> the U.S. believed that Russian President Vladimir Putin had drafted plans for an invasion to begin Wednesday, U.S. officials say the window of a potential Russian attack remains open. Biden delivered his speech at a shipyard in Lorain, Ohio. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/02\/joe-biden-approves-troops-deployments-eastern-europe-russia-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Biden Approves More Troops For Deployment Amid Russia-Ukraine Tensions)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMay God protect our troops,\u201d Biden said. \u201cAnd the reason they tell me I\u2019ve got to head out \u2014 I hadn\u2019t planned on going immediately \u2014 is because of weather going back to Washington. And there\u2019s a little thing going on in Europe right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Biden emphasized the ongoing threat of a Russian invasion prior to his Ohio speech, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/17\/joe-biden-believes-russia-invade-ukraine-several-days\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">telling reporters<\/a> Thursday morning that the threat remains \u201cvery high.\u201d Reporters then pressed him on whether he personally believes Putin will choose to invade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, I do,\u201d Biden responded. \u201cNot \u2014 my sense is this will happen in the next several days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>State Department officials have echoed Biden\u2019s statement, highlighting that reports of a Wednesday invasion were sourced to unnamed military officials&nbsp; and did not come from an official U.S. announcement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf something doesn\u2019t come to pass, it doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that what we\u2019ve been warning of is wrong,\u201d State Department spokesman Ned Price <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/briefings\/department-press-briefing-february-16-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said Wednesday<\/a>. \u201cIn the best-case scenario, the Russians will have changed their calculus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I can say is that the Russians over several weeks and in recent days, have put in place the assets, the troops, the material that they would need to undertake an attack against Ukraine at any moment,\u201d Price continued. \u201cWe\u2019ve been in that window for some time now, we will be in that window for some time until and unless we see de-escalation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russian media has put forward footage appearing to show tanks and other assets withdrawing from the Ukrainian border, but the U.S. says the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/us-says-russias-claim-withdrawing-troops-border-with-ukraine-is-false-2022-02-17\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">footage is misleading<\/a> and that Russia still has roughly 150,000 troops deployed along Ukraine\u2019s borders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden ended an infrastructure speech Thursday in Ohio by saying he had to return to Washington, D.C. to handle a \u201clittle thing going on in Europe.\u201dBiden was referring &#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-1306739","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\/1306739","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=1306739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306739\/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=1306739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1306739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}