BBCNEWS Dateline London February 21, 2022 03:39:00
You're right, biden is both instinctively atlanticist. he believes very strongly the united states and the west have to be together in answering threats. such as the one on the border of ukraine. that is whether ukraine is a full member of nato or not. what has changed is two things. 0nw, and this will bear watching in the months ahead, is this explicit move by putin, and welcomed by president xi in beijing, to seek a kind of rapprochement between moscow and beijing as a joint counterweight to america and the west. 0n the western side, something which i don't think putin quite anticipated, is ...