WASHINGTON — Early in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, as President Joe Biden reeled off the devastating economic sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin, he sounded a bit like he was trying to channel Dirty Harry.
“He has no idea what’s coming,” Biden said in a threat to Putin that sounded personal and appeared ad libbed.
This was Biden as a quasi-wartime president, absent the actual American troops: talking tough about the fight for freedom in Ukraine against a foreign enemy and capitalizing on American unity to sell his domestic agenda.
