“It strikes me that if he is terrified and moved by what he sees, like all of us, he does not say it in good language,” said Harold Ko, who served as a legal adviser to the State Department during the Obama administration. “She says what she thinks she is. “I prefer more politicians to be more honest than to be smarter in their words.” However, in the midst of Europe’s largest land war since World War II, Biden’s tendency to deviate from official US policy has the potential to complicate efforts to end the conflict and confuse allies and partners, some diplomats say.
