Biden's momentous 72 hours in Europe steels the West for the next stage of Russia's war in Ukraine

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Warsaw, Poland (CNN) — President Joe Biden barely slept as he rolled in the dark toward Kyiv earlier this week, sitting awake as his curtained-off train car crossed into the warzone that has come to shape so much of his presidency.

Biden will depart Europe three days later having loudly recommitted to backing Ukraine as it enters a second year of conflict, working to cast aside doubts about the durability of American support and directly blaming his counterpart in the Kremlin for thrusting the continent into war.

The 72 hours Biden spent on the ground in Ukraine and Poland have been among the most momentous of his presidency, the culmination both of careful, highly secretive planning by White House aides and the president’s singular, decades-held view of America’s role in the world.

In conversations with aides, foreign counterparts and even by phone with his wife over the course of his visit, Biden has asserted his trip this week was essential in showing the world the US wouldn’t waver in its support. ...............(more)

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/22/politics/joe-biden-european-trip-ukraine-war/index.html

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1. Fox news will spin the above few paragraphs as, "Biden suffers from insomnia."

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2. Fuck 'em.