Hardening our hearts
Biden invokes the G-word, ramps up arms to Ukraine; Japan's ex-PM calls for explicit U.S. defense of Taiwan
U.S. President Joe Biden, speaking at an Iowa ethanol plant, accused Russia of genocide in Ukraine. Biden said he’d let lawyers decide whether what Russia has done qualifies as genocide, but the formal definition is fairly broad: any effort to intentionally destroy even part of any ethnic, national, racial or religious group can be construed as genocide…