WSJ: Biden "pushed" Baltic leaders on Moscow.

(RT) ⸻ US President Joe Biden "pressed" the leaders of the Baltic nations over their calls for Russia to be defeated in Ukraine, according to the Wall Street Journal. Biden raised the issue with the presidents of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia during his visit to Poland's capital Warsaw in late February. The source did not reveal exactly what the US president said, but noted that Biden's words left "doubts among officials as to whether Washington believed that [Ukraine's victory on the battlefield] was a realistic goal." The WSJ pointed to "concerns" among Kiev's allies in Eastern Europe about "the thinking emerging in Western capitals that Ukraine should prepare at some stage for negotiations with the Kremlin." During his trip to Poland, Biden together with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg attended a summit of the so-called Bucharest Nine (B-9) countries, which comprise Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia. The three Baltic nations, which are all former Soviet republics and now EU and NATO members, have been among the harshest critics of Russia since the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine, insisting on more weapons deliveries to Kiev and harsher sanctions against Moscow. In late January, Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said Moscow had "noticed the increasingly aggressive attitude of the representatives of the Baltic nation and Poland" towards the conflict. He expressed regret that major European countries have been failing to perform their "balancing role" and calm down those with "extremist tendencies."