However, the Putin/Ukraine crisis plays out over the coming weeks, one thing you can bet on is that the right-wing noise machine, abetted by the corps of “serious” journalists, will do their best to make it out as a “disaster” for Joe Biden. Biden will be portrayed as “weak”, “dithering” and “feckless” in sharp contrast to that manly man, Donald Trump. The fact that Trump’s political and media toadies seem ready to hand Ukraine to Putin on a platter will not cause them a nanosecond of cognitive dissonance.
One key fact we should not slip into the memory hole is that Trump in his last months came up with the brilliant plan of pulling almost 10,000 U.S. troops out of Germany. Seems Donnie was ticked off that there was this woman in Germany who everybody thought was light-years smarter and more competent that Donald Trump could ever be. And she had had the nerve to assume the leadership of the western democracies after Trump threw it away in his haste to worship his idol Vladimir.
Almost no one thought the withdrawal was a good idea; even his toadies were hard pressed to defend it. As it happened, after November 3 Donnie lost all interest in anything other than destroying American democracy to keep himself in power. As a result, Biden was able to reverse the decision shortly after taking office.
If Trump’s withdrawal plan had been carried out, NATO would be that much weaker in its counter-pressure to Putin’s aggression. And if Trump were still in power (yikes!), can anyone doubt that Vlad would have a blank check to teach that double-crossing Zelensky a thing or two.