Weekend Update #17: Biden to Kyiv, China seems Torn, Russian Massive Offensive/Bakhmut

Geopolitics and the Shaping of the War

Biden to Kyiv

Easily the story of the week was the visit of US President Joseph Biden to Kyiv. There were so many things that stand out about this visit. The extraordinary secrecy that made it possible, the symbolism of the trip as it happened, and, maybe just as important, the follow up afterwards—including Biden’s continual attempt to associate both hi…