During his political career, Biden cultivated a reputation for unsigned frankness, a trait that the Allies praised as humanizing but opponents mocked as undisciplined.
“I’m impressed by the fact that if he’s horrified and excited by what he’s witnessing, as we all are, he doesn’t describe it in good language,” said Harold Co., who was a legal adviser at the State Department during the administration. of Obama. “He says what he thinks he is. I prefer politicians to be more outspoken than smarter in their words.”
But in the midst of Europe’s biggest land war since World War II, Biden’s tendency to deviate from US official policy has the potential to complicate efforts to end the conflict and confuse allies and partners, some diplomats say.
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