(03-17-2022 09:55 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  Watching the daily coverage of the Ukraine, I have these thoughts:
There are things Biden has done I support. There are things he has done that I don't support.
But his reaction to the the events in Ukraine is moot, since I believe if Biden was not president, there would be no Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Biden was widely expected to be a caretaker president and a man of malleable convictions. His shameful actions in Afghanistan shored up these perceptions.
If Trump had been re-elected, would Putin think that NOW I can finally get what I want? I doubt it. He had four years to move, and did not. Perhaps he was watching when Trump and Kim Jong Un had their discussions over whose button was bigger.

Tying two themes together, one thing that I think is fairly certain is that JFK would not not have stood aside and allowed Putin free rein in Ukraine, and knowing that, Putin would not have tried.

For all the "Trump...Russia" BS, the facts are as follows:

GWB-Putin invaded Georgia
Obama-Putin invaded Ukraine (Crimea)
Trump-Putin invaded nobody
Biden-Putin invaded Ukraine again

Which of these things is not like the others?