Analysis: For those wanting to hear a more detailed explanation of why the U.S. should push back against Russia's invasion of Ukraine, President Joe Biden's state of the union address may have left some with lingering questions.
Still, the 62-minute speech provided an opportunity for the president to outline in broad strokes why he believes the actions of Russian leader Vladimir Putin must be curtailed, and showed an otherwise deeply partisan U.S. government strongly united on that front.Russia's attack on Ukraine certainly hijacked some of the president's planned agenda for his first state of the union address Tuesday evening.
"I was somewhat surprised he didn't go into more depth about the situation in Ukraine," said Michael Allen, an associate professor of history and an expert on U.S. political and diplomatic history at Northwestern University. "The president must do all he can to convince as many Americans as possible that these issues are essential to the American cause at home and abroad," Hudak wrote.'Putin was wrong,' Biden says in state of the unionU.S. President Joe Biden denounced the Russian invasion of Ukraine in his first state of the union address, saying Vladimir Putin thought the world could be divided, but the Russian president had been proven wrong.
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