Vice President Joe Biden,speaks at J. Sergeant Reynolds Community College in Richmond, Va., Thursday, July 16, 2009. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)Biden To Greet Eager Allies In Ukraine And Georgia -- Yahoo News/AP
KIEV, Ukraine – Vice President Joe Biden is visiting Georgia and Ukraine starting Monday, meeting leaders eager for further reassurance that Washington still supports their joining NATO and that its effort to warm relations with Russia won't come at their expense.
The Kremlin, having seen several former communist countries of Eastern Europe enter the Western alliance, strongly opposes more of its own former republics joining. And although the Obama administration has insisted nothing has changed regarding the Georgian and Ukrainian candidacies, there's a widespread perception in the former Soviet bloc that the U.S. has opted to move more slowly.
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Update: Biden heads to Ukraine, Georgia to show US support -- AFP
My Comment: The Russian leadership is not going to be happy with this trip .... but the U.S. administration is doing the right thing. The U.S. has been ignoring Eastern Europe and former Soviet States in favor of a Russian focus .... this visit should put things back into balance.