US President Joe Biden plans to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky next week around the United Nations General Assembly meetings, according to multiple officials familiar with the plans.
It remained unclear whether the meeting would occur in New York or later in the week at the White House. One source familiar with the matter told CNN that Zelensky is expected to travel to Washington, DC, after his stop in New York.
Biden and Zelensky are both scheduled to address the assembly on Tuesday.
So you need to realize that up until about 18 months ago, the prospect of a peer-power conflict between the US and literally anyone was considered deeply unlikely, and that was the prevailing consensus since the Soviet Union collapsed about 30 years ago. 2014 should have been a wake up call, but for various (imo, very deluded and myopic) reasons, it wasn’t taken as such.