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Good morning Playbookers on Ragumonovalin. It's Wednesday.

And today's show, the biggest takeaways from last night's state of the union.

This is your Politico Playbook Daily briefing.

If you missed last night's speech, here were the key takeaways in revealing moments

that stuck with Team Playbook from President Biden's first State of the Union speech.

Number one, Biden's cost-free confrontation with Russia.

On the surface, events in Russia clearly upended the State of the Union speech.

Biden spent the first 12 minutes of his address focused on the events there.

He said that Russian President Vladimir Putin badly miscalculated in thinking the free world

would bend to his menacing ways.

He branded him a dictator and reiterated that he would crack down on the oligarchs,

popping Putin up by seizing their ill-begotten gains, their yachts, luxury apartments, and private jets.

He bragged that Russia's economy is reeling from sanctions.

He praised the resilience of the Ukrainian people and used the opportunity to engineer

a rare bipartisan state of the union standing ovation near the top of the speech when the TV audience is typically at its peak.

He patted himself on the back with the quick review of his leadership throughout the crisis.

Quote, "'Reprepared extensively and carefully,' Biden said, noting the months building a coalition

of other freedom-loving nations, and how he spent countless hours unifying our European allies

and counter Russia's lies with truth.

He announced one new policy as it relates to Russia.

Biden said America will follow Europeans in, quote, closing off American airspace to all

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