Switzerland is not a member of NATO and has a long-standing policy of neutrality on the international stage.
Biden has made a number of verbal mistakes on the world stage, most recently when he discussed the U.S. position on Taiwan, and raised questions about an abrupt change in U.S. foreign policy, only for the White House to withdraw. the comments.
Republicans mocked the latest mistake, claiming the 79-year-old is unfit to be the leader of the free world.
Meanwhile, Biden said Americans should be willing to pay high gasoline prices “in the time it takes” to prevent Russia from defeating Ukraine.
In a surprise concession, the president admitted he could do little to protect Americans from the rising cost of living that could cost him control of his party in Congress in November.
Biden suggested that economic pain was an inevitable cost to prevent Vladimir Putin’s war from moving “beyond Ukraine.”
Preparing the Allies for a protracted conflict, he said, “We will support Ukraine for as long as it takes.”
The three-day summit showed that NATO repositioned itself in the Cold War with a strong accumulation of forces.
Biden said he was “grouping the world” behind it as he announced another $ 800 million in U.S. military assistance to Ukraine in a few days.
The package includes air defense systems, artillery and ammunition, with a focus on the lethal and high-precision artillery rocket system.
Boris Johnson has pledged £ 1bn more in military aid, passing Britain’s support since the war began to more than £ 2.3bn, just behind Washington.
In response, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said a new “iron curtain” was flowing down between Russia and the West.
The three-day NATO summit culminated in a successful European trip by Biden, which saw Turkey abandon its opposition to Finland and Sweden joining the 30-member alliance.
If accession is approved as expected, it will give NATO a new 800-mile border with Russia.
Biden said the development showed Putin had achieved the opposite of his goal when his war began, in part to counter NATO expansion.
“Putin wanted NATO in Finland, he got Finland’s NATOization,” he said.
Putin has warned that Moscow will “respond in kind” if NATO troops are deployed to its borders.