What makes you think that Trump would be different this time around? He is pretty open about how he views things and he's made it clear that he'd continue right where he left off. He has a history of cozying up to dictators and he sees Putin as a friend. And that's before we start speculating, since there is quite the high likelihood that Putin has some kind of compromising material on Trump, which would explain why the latter is so willing to assist the former.
So, how exactly is it Biden's fault that Putin started a war? And are we just gonna ignore that Trump carried out far more drone strikes than Obama (who is often called a warmonger)? Or when Trump had Soleimani killed? Again, you need to start consuming news from a variety of media outlets, because whatever you are watching now is simply feeding you nonsensical (and at times outdated) talking points.
The mistake Biden made - and I'm a big Biden fan to be honest - is that he threatened Putin with only economical repercussions and that there was no threat whatsoever of supplying arms to Ukraine, or build a coalition, right before Putin went in. If the threat was a massive arms supply machine, that just might have swayed Putin. But Putin accepted the prospect of sanctions as simply the cost of an invasion and went ahead. That's what happened after Crimea, and that was essentially what Biden said would happen upon an invasion, only scaled up.
Imo there’s a lot of benefit of hindsight there. Everybody thought that Russia would steamroll Ukraine within a week or two, it wasn’t clear if sending arms over initially was going to do any good. We didn’t know the state of Russia’s military yet. It also wasn’t clear how much supplying arms would provoke Putin or be seen as an escalation to war with NATO. The strategy of slow escalation was the correct one and Biden’s steady hand is the right approach. Granted I do think the US could have been supplying weapons earlier (just not prior to the invasion itself).
Oh, Biden has handled it exceptionally well from there onwards, and while hindsight is 20/20, presenting only sanctions as the cost of the invasion was a rather fundamental error on his part. Most did indeed expect Russia to beat them senseless on the march on Kiev, but again, there's nothing to gain by NOT threatning with arms supply in the event of a steadfast Ukraine defence. So why did he just say "this will cost you financially", when it was historically clear that Putin didn't care about sanctions? He could have handled it better and possibly deterred the invasion. But that's merely a possibility rather than a likelihood. In any case, this is not something Trump would have done - nothing on his record implies he would, rather the contrary. He would have given Putin a geen light and cheered him on, and I suppose that could have meant "no war", because Putin would have usurped the entire territory.
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Per my friend, now that you are not just a mod but a doctor mod, please finally start trying to grok what the opposite side has to say before reacting.
I mean, if you drew a Venn diagram of his stated opinions and CCP propaganda positions, it would look like a circle after having 2-3 beers. And he’s often completely unable to back up his points of view with evidence or solid reasoning, ignores valid counterarguments, and then comes back and says the exact same unsupported shit a few weeks or months later. And he lives in China. So, yeah.
It would be a lie to pretend Stargazer isn't the favourite by far.
You’re forgetting about Limp Bizkit.
