Edward Luce, in the Financial Times, suggested that the Warsaw stumble was revealing, in so far as it was "hard to picture the circumstances in which the US would reincorporate Russia into the global economy while Putin is still there." Putin, Biden insisted, "sought to shake the foundations of the free world, thinking he could make it bend to his menacing ways." Leaving aside Putin as the feted gargoyle of tyranny, such talk about autocracy and democracy jars in a good number of countries.