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    Analysis: Biden’s State of the Union speech aims to prove he has the strength to lead in turbulent times

    by Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times Mar 02, 2022 4 minutes
    President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the U.S. Capitol House Chamber on Tuesday, March 1, 2022, in Washington, D.C..

    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.

    “We will meet the test,” Biden said at the climax. “To protect freedom and liberty, to expand fairness and opportunity. We will save democracy.”

    Biden has

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