Joe Biden's Russia Pullout in the Oval Office

Biden was better prepared than anyone I can think of to face that moment. He'd spent his entire career really studying the Russians and during the Cold War days. So they were able to rally skeptical allies. They couldn't convince them until the invasion took place. It rivalled the performance of the intel community during the Cuban Missile Crisis when they got stolen blueprints of the Russian missile sites in Cuba. And you two flights and prepare JFK for what was happening, it was an extraordinary performance.

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