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Joinfortmill

(14,456 posts)
Tue Feb 21, 2023, 07:44 AM Feb 2023

How They Got Biden To Ukraine

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-biden-kyiv-politics-74c9de636c489393c86ad115e5cbcb48?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=RelatedStories&utm_campaign=position_03

Inside Biden’s secret journey to Ukraine

'...President Joe Biden’s motorcade slipped out of the White House around 3:30 a.m. Sunday. No big, flashy Air Force One for this trip -– the president vanished into the darkness on an Air Force C-32, a modified Boeing 757 normally used for domestic trips to smaller airports...The next time he turned up — 20 hours later — it was in downtown Kyiv, Ukraine.

Biden’s surprise 23-hour visit to Ukraine on Monday was the first time in modern history that a U.S. leader visited a warzone outside the aegis of the U.S. military — a feat the White House said carried some risk even though Moscow was given a heads-up.

Over the next five hours, the president made multiple stops around town — ferried about in a white SUV rather than the presidential limousine — without any announcement to the Ukrainian public that he was there. But all that activity attracted enough attention that word of his presence leaked out well before he could get back to Poland, which was the original plan. Aides at the White House were surprised the secret held as long as it did.'

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ShazzieB

(16,513 posts)
2. So much for the RWNJs whining about Air Force 1 supposedly going to Ukraine!
Tue Feb 21, 2023, 10:10 AM
Feb 2023

He didn't even take it to Poland, much less Ukraine!

Rhiannon12866

(206,016 posts)
9. Just goes to show that experience matters!
Wed Feb 22, 2023, 05:19 AM
Feb 2023

36 years in the Senate, 8 years in the Executive Branch, our most experienced POTUS in history!

True Blue American

(17,988 posts)
10. Are we still amazed
Wed Feb 22, 2023, 06:11 AM
Feb 2023

That the frail, senile man who is too old to be President had his staff pull this off?

Even more amazing is to hear him give speeches, visit several countries over a period of days, not once see him doze off.

The lovely video of him with flag waving, cheering children was cut off except for CNN this time. They kept the cameras rolling. Fox showed a little but MSNBC just knows we want to go back to the airheads blathering 24/7.

Rhiannon12866

(206,016 posts)
11. He is clearly the president that we needed for these difficult times
Wed Feb 22, 2023, 06:17 AM
Feb 2023

His experience shines through on everything that he does. And it's frustrating that he doesn't get the credit he deserves now, but history will recognize him, same as President Carter. *sigh*

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