{"id":1373850,"date":"2022-03-13T08:23:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T12:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1373850"},"modified":"2022-03-13T08:26:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T12:26:27","slug":"vp-harries-meets-allies-in-poland-and-romania-awkwardness-ensues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vp-harries-meets-allies-in-poland-and-romania-awkwardness-ensues\/","title":{"rendered":"VP Harries Meets Allies in Poland and Romania, Awkwardness Ensues"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fvp-harries-meets-allies-in-poland-and-romania-awkwardness-ensues%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=1373850&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<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<p>Before Vice President Kamala Harris landed in Poland and Romania on a mission to reassure NATO countries increasingly nervous about Russian aggression, her advisers said she would bring the force of the U.S. government to back up America\u2019s defensive pledge.<\/p>\n<p>But a moment of levity during a press conference prompted observers to question the tone of the U.S. response.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Harris arrived from Washington bearing a multipart message focused on reminding trans-Atlantic allies of America\u2019s defense commitments, with the promise of humanitarian and military support for Ukraine, advisers said in advance of her trip. \u201cThird is the fact that Putin has made a mistake that will result in resounding strategic defeat for Russia,\u201d a senior administration official added.<\/p>\n<p><b><u><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/russia-requests-emergency-un-security-council-meeting-to-present-evidence-of-ukraine-biolabs\">RUSSIA REQUESTS EMERGENCY UN SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING TO PRESENT &#8216;EVIDENCE&#8217; OF UKRAINE BIOLABS<\/a><\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Western allies have imposed crippling sanctions on Moscow\u2019s financial system and wealthy elites, sending the country into economic shock. But while Poland and Romania are NATO members, Ukraine is not, leading to concerns in Washington about the risk of being drawn into conflict with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden stepped up his warnings to Moscow on Friday over a potential chemical weapons attack,<u><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/biden-promises-severe-retaliation-for-any-russian-chemical-attacks-in-ukraine\">promising \u201csevere\u201d retaliation<\/a><\/u> by the United States when asked whether he would respond militarily. The president has vowed not to send U.S. troops to fight in Ukraine and instead has targeted Russia\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow has accused Washington and Kyiv of developing chemical weapons in Ukraine, which U.S. officials strongly deny and say could be the pretext for a chemical attack by Russia on Ukrainians.<\/p>\n<p>As the highest-ranking envoy sent to the region, Harris carried a spotlight amplified by the rapidly scaling tensions. And she delivered the message to Poland and Romania\u2019s leaders, who are eyeing Russia\u2019s attacks from next door, as refugees stream across porous borders into their countries.<\/p>\n<p>America would defend \u201cevery inch\u201d of NATO territory, the vice president pledged during a press conference with Polish President Andrzej Duda, and she insisted that the two countries were \u201cunited\u201d despite a disagreement over providing fighter jets to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>In the Romanian capital of Bucharest on Friday, Harris said America was not finished responding to Russia\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny intentional attack or targeting of civilians is a war crime. Period,&#8221; she said, warning that \u201cthere will be more announcements\u201d about U.S. actions against Russia \u201cto ensure serious consequences for what is atrocious and outrageous conduct.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meeting with U.S. and Polish troops, Harris laughed and hugged one person who said they were from California, the vice president\u2019s home state.<\/p>\n<p>The visit was \u201cvery important to us,\u201d one Polish troop said during the visit. Another woman told the vice president, \u201cIt\u2019s an honor for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the vice president also came under fire for an ill-timed reaction to questions from a reporter directed at both leaders about Poland\u2019s immigration system straining under the weight of the humanitarian crisis and what the U.S. was prepared to do to help.<\/p>\n<p>Deferring to Duda, Harris laughed, prompting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky\u2019s former press secretary to condemn the vice president as a video clip of the moment circulated on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Iuliia Mendel deleted her tweet but told CNN that \u201cfor us as Ukrainians, it was a very bad experience to see this type of reaction, a laugh\u201d as the world witnesses the \u201ctragedy\u201d of millions becoming refugees. <\/p>\n<p>Duda confirmed during the press conference that he had asked Harris to speed the process of refugee admissions to the U.S. for those with relatives in the country. More than 1.5 million people have arrived in Poland from Ukraine, straining its resources.<\/p>\n<p>The vice president announced that the U.S. would donate $50 million to the U.N. World Food Program and later met with refugees.<\/p>\n<p>Harris\u2019s reaction continued to draw rebuke into the night, with lawmakers voicing alarm at the lighthearted nature of the exchange at a time of momentous suffering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a very serious situation requiring action, not a laughing matter,\u201d said Indiana Rep. Victoria Spartz, a Ukrainian-born Republican.<\/p>\n<p>The White House has used threats and escalating sanctions against Russia to warn off its attacks, but Moscow has yet to yield to the West\u2019s pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Mike Waltz, a Florida Republican, called the administration\u2019s messaging \u201chorrendous\u201d during a seminar event Thursday evening, singling out Harris.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you have the vice president of the United States, in such a moment of crisis, standing on the eastern front and essentially kind of laughing [her] way through it like it\u2019s a traditional bilat and not establishing those firm lines. And then you have that backed up by the White House press spokeswoman when asked \u2026 what the U.S. response would be in the use of chemical weapons, and her response is &#8216;I don\u2019t want to get into hypotheticals.&#8217; I think that\u2019s the exact wrong approach,\u201d Waltz said during the Nixon Seminar on Conservative Realism and National Security. \u201cWe need to be very clear on what those lines are and what the consequences will be if Russia crosses them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Putin \u201cgot away with it in Syria for years,\u201d Waltz continued. \u201cFifty-four hospitals directly attacked in one day and ongoing use of chemical weapons, often through false flag operations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><u><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p>He concluded that \u201cif we don\u2019t send the right signals now, I agree that he thinks he may believe that he can get away with it again.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Vice President Kamala Harris landed in Poland and Romania on a mission to reassure NATO countries increasingly nervous about Russian aggression, her advisers said she would bring<\/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-1373850","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\/1373850","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=1373850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373850\/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=1373850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}