Last week, the Ukrainian Parliament passed a law liberalizing the possession and carrying of firearms by civilians, and President Volodymyr Zelensky said he would give weapons to anyone willing to fight. In his State of the Union speech on Tuesday, President Joe Biden blamed his administration’s crime problem on legal gun owners and wants to make it harder for law-abiding citizens to bear arms. He even said he wants to ban the very “assault weapons and high capacity magazines” that Zelensky is giving to Ukrainians.

One of these men is a leader, a student of history, and a hard-nosed realist who trusts his people. The other is Joe Biden.