Biden is obviously a tool of the "permanent bureaucracy" that is dominated by neocons. I don't think Putin is "smart" but he is ruthless and if you think Biden has handled this well, then there is something wrong with you:
'Nothing Left' - New Video Takes You Inside the Battle for Bakhmut in Ukraine - 19FortyFive
You guys think this war is cool because it isn't being fought by Americans or on any really important nation's soil, and yet it advances your globalist agenda. In the end, of course, as always, you will be wrong. All it will do (besides obliterating Ukraine) is make the Russia/China alliance the dominant force in geopolitics in the coming decades as the West is hampered by depleated military prowess, literally unbelievable levels of debt and a society obsessed with the queer agenda. Yeah that last one isn't a result of the war but the left's embrace of that will make it (again) literally impossible for AMERICA to recover from the effects of the Russia/Ukraine war. Oh, and don't forget to enjoy the decline...