Biden’s Russia warnings come to pass – what does the US president do now?

Inflation is rising, Republicans are resurgent - and the increasingly embattled president now has a foreign policy crisis to deal with

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For weeks, Joe Biden has issued urgent warnings that a Russian invasion of Ukraine could happen at any moment. The moment came overnight, when Russian troops began attacking Ukraine by land, air and sea.

For the US president - increasingly embattled at home by a resurgent Republican party - it was evidence that the White House had largely assessed the Ukraine crisis correctly, even though their preference would have been to be wrong about their predictions of a disastrous war in Europe.