Priorities: Biden ignores Ohio, visits Ukraine

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US President Joe Biden made a surprise visit to Kiev on February 20 in what the western mainstream press characterized as a display of strong US support for Ukraine.

“Most Americans, the general public, in fact, is divorced from this [US proxy] war,” Professor Joe Siracusa, US political expert and dean of Global Futures at Deakin University, told Sputnik. “They don’t care what Biden does. It’s not going to have a big impact on public opinion tomorrow. What he’s counting on is if he can get somebody to say that the Ukrainians were victorious. If someone will say that the Russians took a terrible beating, he can claim this as his foreign policy success.

He’s mishandled the Chinese, the Iranians and North Korea. He’s got nothing to show in two years in office.”
Joe Biden’s surprise visit to Kiev signals Washington’s continued commitment to the Ukrainian regime, western media reported on Monday.

The US president arrived in Kiev at 8 am local time (GMT+2) and was greeted by the US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink. Biden reportedly took a nearly ten-hour-long train ride from Poland in a bid to get to the Ukrainian capital.
He was seen outside St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky shortly before noon local time.

During the meeting with Zelensky, Biden reportedly vowed to provide Ukraine with another $500 million in military assistance in the coming days, which will include artillery ammunition, Javelin missiles and Howitzers. However, he fell short of mentioning the advanced weapons that the Kiev regime seeks.
For his part, Zelensky told the press that he and the US president discussed the provision of long-range weapons and other arms which have not been previously supplied to Ukraine.