Biden faces yet another crisis with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

• In a USA TODAY/Suffolk poll, Americans disapproved by double digits Biden’s handling of the situation.
• Biden has applied lessons learned from last year’s messy withdrawal from Kabul.
• A standoff between Russia and the West could unsettle the global economy and roil energy markets,

Joe Biden began his presidency amid the worst pandemic in a century and in the wake of the most violent challenge to American democracy since the Civil War.

Now he faces a revival of the Cold War.

“Russia has now undeniably moved against Ukraine,” Biden said in a statement to reporters in the East Room, calling it a “flagrant” violation of international law. His voice rising in outrage, he demanded: “Who in the Lord’s name does (Russian President Vladimir) Putin think gives them the right to declare new so-called countries on territory that belong to his neighbors?”