In That Vein I Find Myself - In This Day & Age of Playing it Safe & Never Letting Others Know What One Really Thinks & Feels (Afraid of Upsetting the Apple Cart & Ruffling Any Number of Highly Sensitive Feathers), Almost Awestruck By & Unable to Control My Involuntary Inner Reaction of 'Hear, hear!" Upon Hearing and Witnessing (Upon the Box) the Other Night, United States President Joseph Biden - FAR FROM RESILING AN IOTA From His 'Reckless & Precipitous' Remarks Concerning Vladimir Putin - Actually, Unbelievably Doubling Down Upon the Same...Suggesting Not Just That He Never Meant/Intended Them To Be Taken 'Literally' (by the Russians/Putin Etc) As Any Kind of (New and Worrisome, Regime Change-Oriented) Policy Tweak/Redirection, Those Remarks Merely Being His Own Personal & All-Too Human If Highly Visceral Reaction to/Take on the (In)Human Tragedy Unfolding Day-by-Day In (and Around) the Ukraine, But Moreover, and More Importantly, HAD NO INTENTION WHATSOEVER of Backing Down From Or Retracting/Walking Back Said Remarks...

And neither should he. For once he's effectively called Putin's bluff, well knowing that were the Russian President to use such as a pretext for a full-on nuclear war with NATO et al, he'd have already decided upon the same already...

Nevertheless, if it does serve to fuel Putin's ire (and doubtless Putin'll twist it for all it's worth), and it does, however indirectly, contribute to WW111, *we'll doubtless one and all retract such an apology and resile ourselves from he same, judging Mr Biden somewhat differently...

Perhaps America's second ever Roman Catholic president is taking a leaf out of his forbear's book, JFK coining that unforgettable "better dead than red" line, which thankfully - after a precipitate eleventh-hour standoff at both the Bay of Pigs & in the Cuban Missile Crisis...saw the Russians - under the cool and collected leadership of the relatively enlightened Nikita Khrushchev, back down... 

*If we're even around to do so, that is...

Or, rather, the Judgment Books of Heaven one day soon will, as a depopulated Earth itself gives way to the long-anticipated Second Coming of Jesus Christ, and, after a 1,000-year interim during which the saints themselves participate in a careful examination and perusal of selfsame books of record, they are opened to the (stunned) sight (and subsequent subdued silence) of one and all...