It's Wednesday, February 22, 2023.

I'm Albert Moulier, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from

a Christian worldview.

It is just like a spy novel.

It is just like a modern suspense thriller, and there are huge lessons here when it comes

to leadership and the battle of ideas, even the clash of worldviews.

What am I talking about?

I'm talking about the President of the United States surreptitiously getting on a small military

jet with a curtains drawn and flying without any public announcement with two reporters

who had absolutely no cell phones with them at the time, traveling to Poland and then going

overnight in a multi-hour process on a train because flying would have been too dangerous

from Poland to Kiev, Ukraine in order to bring greetings and instill hope from the American

people.

I'm talking about President Joe Biden showing up in Ukraine during a period of war showing

up in a war zone without the overt protection of the American military and doing so in order

to send a political and worldview message.

In this case, the worldview has to do with the superiority of freedom over oppression

and the superiority of a democratic form of government over dictatorship.

And it's a contrast between the West and in this case he was showing Western solidarity

with Ukraine and totalitarianism.

And most importantly, in this case Vladimir Putin's Russia and Putin's invasion of Ukraine,

just about a year ago in terms of the date that the military action the invasion began.

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