Biden expected to tap Bridget Brink to be U.S. ambassador to Ukraine
spans more than 26 years, is no stranger to escalating tensions in Eastern Europe.
Brink supported Slovakia’s entry into NATO in 2004 and became the U.S. ambassador to the country in 2019, a position she currently holds., Brink recounted the significance of seeing the Berlin Wall fall in 1989 as a student at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She also emphasized what she described as an “enduring transatlantic link” that ran through her family.
“According to family lore, my grandfather took General Eisenhower’s blood pressure, and it was a bit high,” Brink said in her speech. “‘General,’ he said, ‘lie down for a few minutes and think happy thoughts.’ He did, and my grandfather was able to report that General Eisenhower passed his physical. The rest, so they say, is history.”As U.S.
Moscow has often cited the expansion of the transatlantic alliance closer to Russia’s borders as the rationale for the country’s invasion of Ukraine. If confirmed, Brink would have to navigate the challenges of maintaining Western countries’ response to Russia while making sure the conflict does not escalate to the point of nuclear warfare. Russian officials haveoften delayed by an unwieldy mix
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