Putin showed great restraint when he invaded Ukraine. I need to remember that one. His incentive is to rebuild the Russian Empire. Pretty simple.
And leave it to the great ex-CIA analyst to neglect to notice that Putin was not much of a threat to anyone until he saw weakness in Obama, and then invaded Crimea and the Donbas region of Ukraine. Even the RINO Romney knew Putin had to be kept in check, but Obama showed him he was a pushover and a Paper Tiger who would do nothing to stop any ambitions. Then Putin was strangely well behaved while Trump was President, as was Afghanistan, China, North Korea, Iran, etc. The so-called loose cannon Trump ended the ISIS threat, kept despots in check, rebuilt the military, filled the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, had peace in the Middle East, brought about an intelligent end to the long Afghanistan war, and secured our Borders from Illegals, Terrorists, and Drug Cartels. When Trump was President, Putin showed great restraint. Putin showed zero restraint when Biden stole the 2020 election, and soon thereafter, Putin was massing troops and threatening to invade the Ukraine again. Biden sternly said, "Don't"... and Putin laughed. Of course, he was also feeling threatened because Antony Blinken, Valerie Jarett, and Biden/Harris were foolishly pushing for an expansion of NATO... something we had promised him would not happen. It would have been enough of a check on Putin to merely have existing NATO Countries paying their fare share of defense costs. So Biden Administration weakness and Foreign Policy blunders quickly led to an invasion and war that has killed at least a couple hundred thousand people, destroyed much of a country, and cost American taxpayers over $100 billion. I'll bet all of those bombs, munitions, tanks, jets, and the Biden sabotage of the Nordstream Pipeline even contributed to Global Warming.
But it does provide a great place for Democrat money laundering, and a means of destroying the evidence of Biden Family corruption in the Ukraine.
