Biden's historic trip strengthens commitment to Ukraine

's historic visit

to Kiev sends a powerful and vivid message to the world.

Four days after one year of Vladimir Putin's invasion, all countries have seen the president of the United States walk through the monumental center of the Ukrainian capital with Volodimir Zelenski while anti-aircraft alerts were heard in the background regarding the imminent risk of the umpteenth attack of the Kremlin.

The two leaders embraced in a gesture of transcendence: democracies do not fear Russia and

yet to win the war

.

The image has an enormous charge, not only because of the moment of the contest in which it occurs, but also because it takes place nine years after the bloody repression against the Euromaidan: those protests that ended with the resignation of the pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovic.

Knowing that today Putin is delivering his speech to the nation, the US president, as the highest representative of the free world, set his own: Ukraine's democracy, sovereignty and integrity are unshakable.

And her allies will not give up defending them until the last consequences.

Joe Biden was one of the few leaders who had not yet set foot on Ukrainian soil since the start of the war.

The symbolism of the visit, organized in secret and carried out by surprise, does not lie only in words, but also in deeds.

The US is the partner that has provided the greatest arms support to Ukraine and when Zelenski insists on the need to receive material, Biden announces additional support of 500 million dollars that will include ammunition and anti-armor and surveillance systems, and has advanced more sanctions against the elites who back the Russian war machine.

"Ukraine stands, democracy stands, and the Americans and the world stand with you," Biden said.

A few words that give his visit more value: for months,

In a political situation in which false pacifism exercises are being heard again, Biden thus recovers a

: for there to be peace, we must invest in means.

There is no room for hesitation when it comes to defending the Ukrainian project because doubts are weaknesses that Putin feeds on, whose propaganda has already sold the trip as a political trick.

Throughout this war, the EU and the US have sometimes faced the temptation to abdicate their obligation to Ukraine, arguing economic difficulties and the entrenchment of the conflict.

This visit must be understood as confirmation that the West will not renounce its role as guarantor of democracy and respect for the rule of law until Ukraine recovers its sovereignty and individual liberties.

Joe Biden has strengthened the allies' commitment to the values ​​of liberal humanism.

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