{"id":156761,"date":"2023-03-03T22:45:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T06:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=156761"},"modified":"2023-03-03T22:45:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T06:45:29","slug":"president-biden-and-chancellor-scholz-of-germany-before-bilateral-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=156761","title":{"rendered":"President Biden and Chancellor Scholz of Germany Before Bilateral Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;Well, Chancellor, welcome back to the Oval Office.  Welcome back to the White House.Olaf, we\u2019ve \u2014 there\u2019s been a lot changing since the last year you were here.  Matter of fact, if I\u2019m not mistaken, you were here in February of 2022, and Russia was amassing its troops \u2014 185,000 troops on the Ukrainian border.  And we made it clear that if he moved, we would both respond.  And together, we made good on that promise that \u2014<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GnGjxB5wgxw\" title=\"President Biden Holds a Bilateral Meeting with Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And I want to thank you, Olaf, for your strong and steady leadership.  And I mean that sincerely.  It\u2019s made a world of difference.  And together, we made good on our promise.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve stepped up to provide critical military support.  And, you know, I would argue that, beyond your military support, the moral support you gave to the Ukrainians has been profound.  It\u2019s been profound. <\/p>\n<p>And you\u2019ve driven historic changes at home and, you know, increasing defense spending and diversifying away from Russian energy sources.  I know that\u2019s not been easy.  Been very difficult for you.<\/p>\n<p>Together, we worked lockstep to supply critical security assistance to Ukraine.  And \u2014 from everything from \u2014 we\u2019ve done it in lockstep \u2014 ammunition, artillery, armored tanks, air defense systems.  And we\u2019ve been together throughout this.<\/p>\n<p>You helped Ukraine meet its basic needs, like food, health, heating.  And you continue to give them \u2014 put \u2014 maintain the pressure on Putin.  And it is undercutting his ability to fight this war.<\/p>\n<p>And so, as NATO Allies, we\u2019re making the Alliance stronger and more capable.  You\u2019ve heard me say before that, when I talked to Putin a couple of months before that, I told him that he was more likely to get the \u2014 not the \u2014 the NATOization \u2014 excuse me \u2014 the Findalization [Finlandization] of Europe, which he was pushing for.  More like he got the NATOization of Europe.  And he\u2019s had that effect, in terms of what \u2014 what\u2019s happened.<\/p>\n<p>So, a lot has happened since last year.  We got a lot to talk about, and I look forward to our conversation.<br \/>\nCHANCELLOR SCHOLZ:  Thank you for having me again.  And I really appreciate to be back at the White House.  And let me just say this is a very, very important year because of the very dangerous threat to peace that comes from Russia invading Ukraine.  And it\u2019s really important that we acted together, that we organized our lockstep, and that we made it feasible that we can give the necessary support to Ukraine during all this time.<\/p>\n<p>And, at this time, I think it is very important that we give the message that we will continue to do so as long as it takes and as long as it is necessary, and that we are ready, also, for staying with the Ukrainians as it \u2014 as long as it is necessary.<\/p>\n<p>And I really appreciate the very good cooperation between the two of us, our governments, and the United States and Germany and Europe.  And the transatlantic partnership is really in very good shape today.  And this is very much thanks to your leadership. <\/p>\n<p>So, I\u2019m really happy to be here to talk with you.<\/p>\n<p>PRESIDENT BIDEN:  We have a lot to talk about.  Well, thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;Well, Chancellor, welcome back to the Oval Office. Welcome back to the White House.Olaf, we\u2019ve \u2014 there\u2019s been a lot changing since the last year you were here. Matter of fact, if I\u2019m not mistaken, you were here in February of 2022, and Russia was amassing its troops \u2014 185,000 troops on the Ukrainian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":156762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Fullscreen-capture-332023-103556-PM.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156763,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156761\/revisions\/156763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/156762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}