speaking in poland a former eastern bloc country that s no stranger to russian aggression, biden started off by saying that the war has so far defied two big expectations. one, that kyiv would fall within days, and two, that the western alliance would splinter as the war dragged on. watch. one year ago the world was bracing for the fall of kyiv. well, i can report kyiv stands strong. kyiv stands proud. it stands tall. and most important it stands free. when russia invaded it wasn t just ukraine being tested, the whole world faced a test for the ages. europe was being tested. america was being tested. nato was being tested. all democracies are being tested. the questions we faced were simple as they were profound. would we be strong if we looked the other, would we be weak? all of our allies would be united or divided? one year later we know the answer. we did respond, we would be strong, we would be united, and the world would not look the other way. president biden also
we re for. what kind of world do we want to build? just hours before president biden spoke the russian president vladimir putin made his own remarks. it was a defiant speech. he showed no sign of backing down, blaming the west for an invasion he launched and pulled his country out of the start of an army control treaty today. it was the only remaining treaty with the united states. ukraine has clawed back around half the territory that was initially seized by russia but large parts of ukraine s south and east remain under russian control and a peace deal appears to be as distant as ever. joining us live from warsaw, poland john is there, the host and executive producer of the show time s the circus as well as the executive editor of the recount. plus barry mccaffrey, former division commander during the gulf war and now an msnbc military analyst.