here's Biden's political problem, put into words. Americans don't reward brilliant diplomacy. They prefer politicians who send missiles and bombs flying in far off lands. Biden is doing the right thing for the planet but it will hurt him at the ballot box.
Wired:
As Biden weighs how to calibrate America’s response and resists the charismatic—and desperate—pleas of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky for direct NATO involvement in the war, Biden faces one of the oddest conundrums of the office: Americans celebrate our wartime leaders and give little credit to those who avoid wars in the first place