'The decisions we make over the next five years or so are going to determine and shape our lives for decades to come,' President Biden said in Poland.
The president said the choice between democracy and autocracy — between light and darkness — will be made "over the next five years or so."Evan Vucci / APWASHINGTON — President Joe Biden echoed his 2020 campaign and alluded to his all-but-certain re-election bid in Poland on Tuesday, as he lauded the democracies of the world for coming to Ukraine's defense against Russia's year-old invasion.
"The decisions we make over the next five years or so are going to determine and shape our lives for decades to come," said Biden, who would be nearing the end of a second term at the end of that time frame."The choice between chaos and stability, between building and destroying, between hope and fear, between democracy, [which] lifts up the human spirit, and the brutal hand of the dictator who crushes it.
At his 2020 Democratic convention acceptance speech, Biden accused then-President Donald Trump of having"cloaked America in darkness" and vowed to be"an ally of the light, not of the darkness." On Tuesday, Biden called on the free world to make"an abiding commitment to be allies — not of darkness, but of light."The references served to connect his role as leader of the free world to one of his major campaign themes of the past and the future.
Warsaw, Poland, is an odd backdrop for an American president to launch his re-election campaign — and Biden did not do that — but, as he gears up to run again, Biden emphasized the parallel he draws between domestic political fights and his view of a global battle pitting freedom against tyranny. In that way, his argument for continued American engagement in Ukraine is part of a larger case that both his own country and the world must choose now between authoritarianism and democracy — a case that includes as exhibits Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the insurrection at the Capitol.
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