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LEMIRE: “Administration officials, Joe, recognize that we’re teetering on the edge of potentially a far more dangerous phase of the war. Let’s start with going with their approach has been to this point, and I wrote on this today for 'Politico.' Certainly this has been a sharp break from the foreign policy of Biden’s predecessor here who we saw cozy up to Putin, weaken the NATO alliance which current officials believe emboldened Putin to move in thinking that Russia -- the United States would not be in a place to handle this, watching the Afghanistan withdrawal, seeing two years, three years of division and being battered by Covid. To this point though Biden has laid down clear markers as to what he can and cannot do.”