Reading Between The Lines #216 By Hank Silverberg Sometimes you just have to read between the lines. President Biden's speech in Warsaw this past week was a masterful piece of leadership. It made clear that the United States and NATO are not going to let Vladimir Putin echo Peter the Great and restore the Russian empire at the expense of Poland or any other NATO country. And Biden sent a clear message that the west will do everything short of committing troops in defense of non-NATO member Ukraine. Its impact could be as great as President Kenndy's anti-communist, Cold War, West Berlin speech in June of 1963, ("Ich bin ein Berliner.") which firmed up our opposition to Soviet threats and expansionism and sent a clear message to Nikita Khrushchev. It can also be compared to Ronald Reagan's Berlin Wall speech in 1987 which re-affirmed America's leadership in the Cold War. He expressed stout support for our allies in Europe and the e