U.S. President Joe Biden has given the OK for Ukrainian forces to be supplied with anti-personnel mines, officials in Washington said, in the second big shift in U.S. policy in three days.

After warning voters for years that a Donald Trump win would be calamitous for American democracy, Biden has gone largely silent on his concerns about what lays ahead for America and he has yet to substantively reflect on why Democrats were decisively defeated up and down the ballot.