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Peter Welch: “Our European allies have always been there for us, including…”

Featuring: Peter Welch, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Welch Speaks on the Need to Continue Supporting Ukraine.

Published | Video Starts at 03:15

Yugoslavia, Europe and NATO weathered the conflict in the breakup of the former Yugoslavia, demonstrating unprecedented EU NATO cooperation and commitments in the Balkans to Western democratic values. Our European allies have always been there for us, including in the aftermath of 911. economic values. Our commitments also ushered in the fall of communism in a vibrant European Union that is peaceful and democratic, a club that the Balkans, Eastern Europe and now Ukraine went into. (03:15–03:22)

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Asserts that European allies supported the US after 9/11.

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