President Joe Biden delivered a primetime Oval Office speech urging the US to support both Israel and Ukraine, framing it as vital US interests to defeat Hamas and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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President Joe Biden made an impassioned call for the United States to show global leadership by backing Israel and Ukraine, saying in a speech from the Oval Office Thursday that defeating Hamas and Russia was a vital US interest.
Biden said he would make an 'urgent' request to Congress on Friday for funding to help Ukraine and Israel, arguing that this was an investment for the United States' future on the world stage for decades to come.
American leadership is what holds the world together.
Hamas and Putin represent different threats, but they share this in common: they both want to completely annihilate a neighboring democracy, completely annihilate it.
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