Vice President Joe Biden said everywhere he goes, world leaders want assurance that the United States will honor its treaty commitments in the wake of Donald Trump’s talk that U.S. commitments to NATO allies may be conditional.
Speaking not far from his hometown of Scranton, Pa., Friday afternoon, Biden said he had to make a special trip to the Baltic region to discuss NATO.
The leaders of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania asked him to make a national, prime-time address to all of their citizens “to reassure them that we will protect them against a Russian invasion,” Biden said. “Because Donald Trump is already doing damage to us.
“So I went, to reassure them,” he said. “Think about having to do this, to reassure a NATO ally that the American people and the Republican Party” will honor the U.S.’s commitment under the terms of North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s charter.
After that speech, the prime minister of Sweden called and asked Biden to make a similar appearance, he said.
“Either he is actually devoid of any intellectual content when he saying this, or he’s completely dangerous,” Biden said of Trump’s foreign policy remarks.
