In a boxing ring, Joe Biden's chances against Vladimir Putin would not be cheap.
But, on the criterion of the coolest head in the inflammable context of an armed conflict, the frail octogenarian American can demonstrate the impulsive rolling mechanics of the Kremlin.
His visit to Kiev on Monday, at the turn of a year of resistance to the invasion, consecrates the head of the White House, if need be, as a guardian power of independent Ukraine and godfather of the Western camp gathered for the help defend themselves.
A high-flying exercise in which he has made few mistakes so far.
On more than one level, it is a challenge to Moscow, which was counting on the cowardice, the division or the fickleness of the dormant democracies in their prosperity.
Biden has proclaimed the “unwavering”
commitment
of the United States, as the new Republican majority in Congress begins to count aid in the tens of billions of dollars.
He also defied the Russians by
“notifying” them
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