Ottawa

Well, Joe Biden did say he’d be tested

And Dmitry Medvedev wastes no time offering Barack Obama a choice: Russia will deploy short-range missiles in Kaliningrad on the border of Poland and Lithuania — unless Obama prefers to abandon George W. Bush’s plan for missile-defence batteries in Poland and the Czech Republic.

Oh, and the future may be looking like a lot more Vladimir Putin.

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