Vice President Harris has had uneven performances during international trips. Now, she spearheads a U.S. delegation as the world waits to see whether Russia will invade Ukraine.
on the Ukraine border, Harris will be holding a series of meetings with European leaders and delivering an address to hundreds of officials. It’s a pivotal moment for a vice president with little foreign policy experience, one who has presidential ambitions but no long-term connection to President Biden.Ben Rhodes, deputy national security adviser under President Barack Obama, said that other nations will be turning to the U.S.
On Friday, Harris will meet with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and will attend a multilateral meeting with members of the three Baltic states — Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — aides announced on Wednesday. On Saturday, she will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and ChancellorBiden’s decision to dispatch Harris to Europe in the middle of a security crisis suggests trust in her ability to represent him on the world stage — to an extent.
The White House has said it has no intention to downgrade her role. “I don’t think there’s any plans to limit or reduce the vice president’s role at the Munich Security Conference or … on the global stage,” White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Tuesday. “She’s going to give a speech while she’s there, and she is a vital and important representative for the United States and our values and our intentions at this point in the world.
“We are ready with diplomacy — to be engaged in diplomacy with Russia and our allies and partners to improve stability and security in Europe as a whole,” Biden said. “And we are ready to respond decisively to a Russian attack on Ukraine, which is still very much a possibility.”
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