better than that of ultimately winning this war. and so the two of them simultaneously in parallel met the moments and now have come together and are going to be twinled, i think, in the history of this era in what is going to be a defining battle the two of them are the two central players on the side of good. it s kind of an extraordinary thing. and it s and again, compare it to donald trump. it just makes you shake your head. you tied all the connective tissue for us. they ve been knitted up since the first impeachment, the extortion event. let me tell our viewers what we re watching. this is air force one. president joe biden has just landed in warsaw back from that surprise visit to kyiv by train. mike memoli, we imagine he s going to go r.o.n., right? reside overnight and be ready for that big speech tomorrow.
resolve not just of the west but of him himself. yeah. i mean, claire, this is a point made by igor novikov in the last hour, former adviser to president zelenskyy, that this was supposed to be a week about putin, what he had and had not accomplished, and what blewett ll onslaught he planned for the one-year anniversary to try to bomb back some of his pride that s been lost on the battlefield. and what igor pointed out was that president joe biden deprived putin of a week of headlines. this is now the week that and he may continue to be brutal. it s not to say he s deterred. but the story at least today is about the american president walking through kyiv with president zelenskyy. yeah, anybody who once dismissed this trip as a photo op doesn t understand that it was a telegram to vladimir putin. and it was cced to all of our allies that are standing strong at moments that may get a little wobbly but biden is keeping
year anniversary of the war? it is sad and a sad anniversary. as allie was saying, it s not one year, it is multiple years. 2014 is when putin moved on crimea. here we are a full year into it and ukrainians are still being shelled and forced to flee their homes. they see their family and loved ones torn apart and killed and wounded. it s a sick war that mr. putin wages on the ukrainian people in the ukrainian country. that said, it is important and historic that present biden was able to get to kyiv on the eve of the anniversary. to make it clear not just to president zelenskyy and the american people but to those around the world that the united states
ukraine stands and democracy stands. a vital message delivered by president joe biden today. made more significant when he delivered the words from kyiv itself. he walks side-by-side with president zelenskyy and the ukrainian capital. it s a moment filled with symbolism with an american president ineffectively a war zone with daily bombardment from russia s forces. two presidents who visit war zones like iraq or afghanistan. president biden delivered a message not just to president zelenskyy and the ukrainian people but to western allies as well as the russians. the message is that america the financial a military backer of ukraine is in it for the long
for there to be some kind of reconciling factor in which the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. and my work is an attempt to try to figure out if the sum of the parts is here and the whole is up here, you know, what is that other thing, what s happening there. and it s in the gestures that take place today in kyiv. it s in the gestures of that ten-hour train ride. it s in the gestures of saying you know what, i m going to go home and be with my family and die with dignity. these are the opportunities we have to perhaps short-circuit or step aside from the good, the bad be, the red state, the blue state, the young and old, the rich or poor, the gay, the straight, all the divisions that we completely superimpose on the complexity that is life and is love. and i ve got a political sign outside my house here in new hampshire, which is a big political state, and it says love multiplies. that s my sign.