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Editorial: It’s 11:59 in Ukraine, and Joe Biden needs to ascend the bully pulpit

Ukrainian service member Oleksii Hodzenko, alias Godzilla, press officer and marine, walks in the trenches at a front-line position held by Ukraine's 503rd Detached Marine Battalion on Feb. 7, 2022, near Verkhnotoretske, Ukraine.

As America was debating the Super Bowl halftime show and bickering about politicized mask mandates, the mood in Europe over the situation in Ukraine was turning mighty bleak — 130,000 amassing Russian troops and the possibility of an imminent military invasion can have that effect.

This week, the defiant Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that his government had been told that Wednesday will be “the day of attack.” Russia, of course, denied this, and Zelenskyy later walked back his comments,

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