US President Joe Biden will encounter German Chancellor Angela Merkel as the two partake in a virtual release of the yearly Munich Security Conference this week. It will be the third time Mr Biden has gone to the gathering, having made the excursion face to face as Vice President in 2009 and 2015. Much has been made of how the Biden organization is probably going to make a total separation from Donald Trump's stand-offish way to deal with Mrs Merkel, and other EU pioneers. Mr Biden has made no mystery of his readiness to advance transoceanic collaboration, yet Washington and Berlin have just seen pressures ascend over the Russia-supported Nord Stream 2 pipeline.


The White House has made its position incredibly understood, as new Secretary of State Antony Blinken claims he is "resolved" to forestall Nord Stream 2's finishing. 

Mrs Merkel has said she needs to examine the pipeline with Mr Biden's group, affirming that her "essential mentality has not changed". 

Her remarks are probably not going to suppress fears of pressure with a White House previously said to be disinterested with the EU's choice to sign a speculation settlementwith China and its luke-warm judgment of Vladimir Putin over the detainment of Alexei Navalny in Russia. 

Yet, Mr Biden and Mrs Merkel have past and the approaching Munich Security Conference will no uncertainty bring back recollections of a high-stakes column between the two world pioneers.

Then serving as Vice President in the Obama administration, Mr Biden flew to Munich for a conference set to be dominated by events in Ukraine.

In 2015, Ukraine found itself in crisis after its parliament had voted to remove pro-Moscow President Viktor Yanukovich when his forces killed more than 100 protesters and wounded scores more the year before. 

Mr Yanukovich fled to Russia and, in a retaliatory move, Putin annexed the Crimean peninsula.

In what became known as the Revolution of Dignity, Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Petro Poroshenko formed a coalition government against Putin’s wishes.

But in 2015, pro-Russian separatists were wreaking havoc in Ukraine and Putin’s tanks circled the border.


Mr Biden, writing in his memoir ‘Promise Me, Dad’, recalled the importance of his trip to the Munich conference. 


He wrote: “Putin was willing to test European resolve on the principle of sanctity of borders ‒ and he was doing it with impunity in Ukraine.



“My main objective in Munich was to continue to encourage our European allies to stand with us: to make sure Putin understood that Russia would pay a price for bullying a weaker neighbour.

“The Ukrainian people had been on a thrilling and sometimes harrowing rollercoaster for the previous year and I felt like I’d been on it with them.”


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 US President Joe Biden will encounter German Chancellor Angela Merkel as the two partake in a virtual release of the yearly Munich Security Conference this week. It will be the third time Mr Biden has gone to the gathering, having made the excursion face to face as Vice President in 2009 and 2015. Much has been made of how the Biden organization is probably going to make a total separation from Donald Trump's stand-offish way to deal with Mrs Merkel, and other EU pioneers. Mr Biden has made no mystery of his readiness to advance transoceanic collaboration, yet Washington and Berlin have just seen pressures ascend over the Russia-supported Nord Stream 2 pipeline.


The White House has made its position incredibly understood, as new Secretary of State Antony Blinken claims he is "resolved" to forestall Nord Stream 2's finishing. 

Mrs Merkel has said she needs to examine the pipeline with Mr Biden's group, affirming that her "essential mentality has not changed". 

Her remarks are probably not going to suppress fears of pressure with a White House previously said to be disinterested with the EU's choice to sign a speculation settlementwith China and its luke-warm judgment of Vladimir Putin over the detainment of Alexei Navalny in Russia. 

Yet, Mr Biden and Mrs Merkel have past and the approaching Munich Security Conference will no uncertainty bring back recollections of a high-stakes column between the two world pioneers.

Then serving as Vice President in the Obama administration, Mr Biden flew to Munich for a conference set to be dominated by events in Ukraine.

In 2015, Ukraine found itself in crisis after its parliament had voted to remove pro-Moscow President Viktor Yanukovich when his forces killed more than 100 protesters and wounded scores more the year before. 

Mr Yanukovich fled to Russia and, in a retaliatory move, Putin annexed the Crimean peninsula.

In what became known as the Revolution of Dignity, Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Petro Poroshenko formed a coalition government against Putin’s wishes.

But in 2015, pro-Russian separatists were wreaking havoc in Ukraine and Putin’s tanks circled the border.


Mr Biden, writing in his memoir ‘Promise Me, Dad’, recalled the importance of his trip to the Munich conference. 


He wrote: “Putin was willing to test European resolve on the principle of sanctity of borders ‒ and he was doing it with impunity in Ukraine.



“My main objective in Munich was to continue to encourage our European allies to stand with us: to make sure Putin understood that Russia would pay a price for bullying a weaker neighbour.

“The Ukrainian people had been on a thrilling and sometimes harrowing rollercoaster for the previous year and I felt like I’d been on it with them.”


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