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Franco Ordoñez

In 2022, Ukraine was a rallying cry in the State of the Union. In 2023, not so much

Ukrainian Ambassador Oksana Markarova (C) acknowledges applause during President Biden's 2023 State of the Union address. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

In his State of the Union speech a year ago, President Biden launched almost immediately into a scathing critique of Russian President Vladimir Putin's "menacing ways" for invading Ukraine.

But this year, it took more than an hour before Biden talked about the war, calling the Russian invasion "a test for America."

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