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Jackie Calmes: Biden isn’t misspeaking about Putin. He’s speaking for the American people

You can watch for yourself. A cyclist dismounts from a bike, walks it along one road in Bucha, Ukraine, and turns onto a street where a Russian tank is parked mid-block. The tank fires. You see the result in another video made weeks later, after Ukrainian forces re-entered the town: Man and bike, both mangled, lying in the same spot you last saw him. Tank versus man. If the cyclist had been a ...
U.S. President Joe Biden in Menlo, Iowa, on April 12, 2022.

You can watch for yourself.

A cyclist dismounts from a bike, walks it along one road in Bucha, Ukraine, and turns onto a street where a Russian tank is parked mid-block. The tank fires.

You see the result in another video made weeks later, after Ukrainian forces re-entered the town: Man and bike, both mangled, lying in the same spot you last saw him.

Tank versus man. If the cyclist had been a soldier at war, this would be horrifying enough. But he plainly wasn’t. Inside that tank was another man. Playing

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