{"id":54398,"date":"2024-07-12T16:48:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T06:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=54398"},"modified":"2024-07-12T16:48:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T06:48:32","slug":"nato-leaders-vow-to-stand-by-ukraine-as-doubts-hang-over-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=54398","title":{"rendered":"NATO leaders vow to stand by Ukraine as doubts hang over Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NATO leaders pledged enduring support for Ukraine and commitment to their alliance as they wrapped up a three-day summit overshadowed by doubts over President Joe Biden&#8217;s fitness to run crucial power the United States.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 32-nation alliance used the pomp-filled 75th anniversary gala in the US capital to showcase its resolve against Russia two and half years into the Kremlin&#8217;s invasion of its pro-Western neighbour.<\/p>\n<p>But the gathering was clouded by uncertainty in the United States as Biden fights for his political survival.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will not walk away from Ukraine. I will keep NATO strong,&#8221; Biden said in his closing press conference. &#8220;That&#8217;s exactly what we did, and exactly what we&#8217;ll continue to do now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The US leader compared his commitment to the trans-Atlantic alliance to comments from his challenger, former president Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My predecessor has made it clear he has no commitment to NATO. He&#8217;s made it clear that he would feel no obligation to honor Article 5,&#8221; Biden said, referring to the alliance&#8217;s commitment of common defense.<\/p>\n<p>Biden met Ukraine&#8217;s President Volodymyr Zelensky along with other NATO leaders on the third &#8212; and final &#8212; day of the summit after pledging new air defenses to help protect the war-torn country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NATO leaders pledged enduring support for Ukraine and commitment to their alliance as they wrapped up a three-day summit overshadowed by doubts over President Joe Biden&#8217;s fitness to run crucial power the United States. The 32-nation alliance used the pomp-filled 75th anniversary gala in the US capital to showcase its resolve against Russia two and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1960],"class_list":["post-54398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-nato-leaders-vow-to-stand-by-ukraine-as-doubts-hang-over-biden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}