SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT:

THEY'RE SENDING WHO? – OVERNIGHT:  PRAY FOR OUR COUNTRY.  FROM THE HILL:  Vice President Harris is slated to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky when she travels to the Munich Security Conference later this week, according to senior administration officials.  The meeting is one of several that Harris is expected to have with leaders at the global security conference. It will come at a pivotal time, as the Biden administration tries to prevent a Russian invasion of Ukraine. Zelensky spoke with President Biden earlier this week.  Harris will arrive at the conference in Munich on Friday and is slated to meet with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and the leaders of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, a senior administration official said.  Her meeting with Zelensky will take place on Saturday, according to a second administration official. She is also expected to meet with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who was recently in Washington to meet with Biden at the White House.  Harris will deliver a speech at the conference addressing Russian threats to Ukraine, the official said. The vice president is expected to use the remarks to argue that a Russian invasion of Ukraine would weaken Russia and to lay out the broader implications of the crisis for European and international order, the official said.  Are you thinking what I'm thinking?  I hope she reads the notes they give her, or at least a Little Golden Book on Europe.  I'm willing to withhold judgment, but her previous excursions haven't exactly gotten rave reviews. 

February 16, 2022