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Russia has a “real dilemma,” U.S. President Joe Biden said on Aug. 13, seven days after Ukrainian forces launched a surprise cross-border incursion into Kursk Oblast. On the defensive side of the full-scale war for the first time, Moscow is in an unexpected bind. “It’s creating a real dilemma for (Russian) President Vladimir Putin,” Biden told reporters in New Orleans, making his first public comments on the operation. While Biden did not go into further detail about Russia’s problems, he said his administration remains in “constant contact” with Ukraine. The U.S. did not immediately rebuke Uk…

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