In Ukraine, Is Biden Winning the Spin War but Losing the Real War?

It’s one thing to win a messaging war against Putin. It’s quite another to come out ahead in an actual conflict.

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President Joe Biden prepares to deliver remarks on his administration’s diplomatic efforts on Russia and Ukraine at the White House in Washington, D.C., February 18, 2022.

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Remember the war against Franco, That’s the kind where each of us belongs. Though he may have won all the battles, We had all the good songs.

— Tom Lehrer, The Folksong Army, 1965

Robert Zubrin

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Robert Zubrin

Robert Zubrin is an aerospace engineer and the author of twelve books, most recently The New World on Mars: What We Can Create on the Red Planet.

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