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Welcome to the show. On Thursday, U.S. President Joe Biden gave his 24 state-of-the-union address that served as a preview of what the next eight months of campaigning is going to look like.

Commentators are already calling it a confrontational speech,

and indeed it was delivered with force, almost a shout,

likely aimed at people worried about his age and vigor.

Biden referred to former President Donald Trump 13 times,

but he avoided mentioning him by name.

He called him, my predecessor, apply likely to paint him as the past and not the future.

We have an essay up on our site by Michael Hirsch with more details on the speech itself,

and we've put that in the show notes here.

But I wanted to focus on the speech itself, and we've put that in the show notes here. But I wanted to

focus on the foreign policy aspects today. State of the Union speeches aren't usually heavy

on foreign policy, but while China came up only a bit, there was much more on Ukraine and the

Middle East, two wars that this White House is actively engaged in. Well, my guest today is a staff writer

for the New Yorker. Susan Glasser is a former editor at Politico, a former Moscow Bureau

Chief at The Washington Post, and is the co-author of several books with her husband, Peter Baker.

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