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Joe Biden in kyiv in front of St. Michael's Monastery is an image for history.
The visit of a President of the United States to a country at war, and where no American troops are deployed, is a rare occurrence.
But Biden's brief trip to the capital of a Ukraine fighting for survival and independence from Russian invasion is even more symbolic.
With his sunglasses and his tie in Ukrainian colors, the American president was welcomed in Kiev as a saviour, at the same time as the leader of a Western alliance regenerated by the challenge of a new European war.
Joe Biden did not utter on the banks of the Dnieper historical sentences comparable to those of Kennedy or Reagan in Berlin in front of the Brandenburg Gate.
Devoid of the meaning of the formula, like the oratorical talent of a Barack Obama, whose speeches were capable of electrifying audiences, we will probably not remember the detail of his speech...
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