Pablo PardoWashington Correspondent

Washington Correspondent

Updated Tuesday, February 13, 2024-21:38

The president of the United States,

Joe Biden

, has entered into the controversy created by the candidate for the White House in the November elections,

Donald Trump,

who on Saturday said that he would "encourage" Russia to attack NATO countries that They do not allocate at least 2% of their GDP to defense. And he hasn't beat around the bush. "For God's sake. It's idiotic. It's shameful. It's dangerous. It's un-American. When the United States makes a commitment, it follows through, and NATO is a sacred commitment. For

Donald Trump, it's a burden

," Biden said from the White House.

Biden

's statements

thus join those of practically all the leaders of the countries that

make up NATO,

who have reacted with indignation to Trump's words, full of obvious lies and easily refuted by anyone capable of making a statement. Google search, opening the door to the possibility of Russia attacking any NATO member

who is "delinquent."

It is sovereign nonsense because NATO does not have quotas, so it is impossible to be late, and, on top of that, the country that contributes the most to its budget is not the US but Germany. But in a country in which half of the population does not know what the three branches of Government are (Legislative, Executive and Judicial) and one in five is not able to put their country on a world map, these statements have an echo.

But Trump's words have opened a window of opportunity for

Joe Biden

to resume the political initiative, after the attacks he has suffered for his alleged lack of memory in the report by special prosecutor Robert Hur who has investigated the theft by the president of secret documents. Indirectly, the message that Biden is sending is that someone who may suffer from memory loss, like him, is better in the White House than his rival, Trump, who not only wants to create detention camps to deport millions of immigrants and leave NATO, but it even encourages

Vladimir Putin

to invade European countries, something that the president tends to come up with spontaneously. "No other president in the history of the United States

has bowed to a Russian dictator

," said Biden, who described Trump's words as "dangerous" and reaffirmed that "if Putin attacks NATO while I am president, the United States "The United States will defend every inch of NATO territory," a phrase he had already used repeatedly as the

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

began .

Trump's words have also come at a time when Biden has managed, after almost five months, to unblock the aid of

61.4 billion dollars (57.3 billion euros)

of US military aid to Ukraine. The aid package was approved early today, Tuesday, in the Senate with the vote in favor of 17 Republican legislators who resisted pressure from Donald Trump to derail the plan. Trump wants the US to continue not giving aid to Ukraine both because of his affinity with

Vladimir Putin,

whom he openly admires, and to inflict a political defeat on Biden. It is the same reason why he has forced Republicans in Congress to vote no to the same immigration control law that they had been demanding for five months as an inexcusable condition for supporting Kiev.

Aid to Ukraine must now be approved in the

House of Representatives

. There it is more difficult for it to come out, because the president of that legislative body,

Mike Johnson,

is an extreme 'Trumpist' who does not even want the proposal to be voted on, since he knows that there could be representatives of his own party who would vote with the Democrats. to approve the aid. In an unprecedented act, the Republican leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell - a prominent conservative who, however, cannot even see Trump - today asked Johnson to allow aid to Ukraine to be processed.