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Okay, good afternoon everyone. I'll tell you that

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everything that you were watching on television I know makes

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you understand and feel the importance of this moment on

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many levels. When I was meeting with our allies

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, I emphasized that the greatest strength that we share

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is unity, especially at this moment, as we

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stand together in defense of democracy and stand together in

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defense of each other. And that unity and our

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collective resolve has been strengthened of course, since Russians

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re invasion of Ukraine and Putin's war. Russia's invasion

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threatens not just Ukraine's democracy, it threatens democracy and

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security across europe. And by extension, when democracy

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is threatened anywhere it threatens that's all and the ocean

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that separates us will not leave us untouched by this

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aggression. So I will say what I know,

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we all say and I will say over and over

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again, the United States stands firmly with the Ukrainian

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people in defense of the NATO alliance. When I

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was there, I met with a group of american

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troops who are there with a group of troops from

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Poland working together, training together, attempting to understand

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each other's language. But yet speaking the same language

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in their fight for what is important about this moment