How does that change the over arching point that Putin's decision to invade was based on Brandon's disastrous exit from Afghanistan Jack? You are the master of non sequiturs.
Trump "undermining" NATO was precisely WHY Putin did not invade Ukraine when he was in office - he has been saying for 30 years that he would not tolerate NATO expansion to his doorstep. "Undermining" NATO is the same thing as undermining the MIC, Jack - I remember the good old days when lefties like you (and me) were anti-war. What happened to you, man?
“Brandons disastrous exit from Afghanistan” wasn’t helped much by Trump and Pompeo’s bright idea of releasing thousands of Taliban terrorists then drawing down our troop levels to 1500 before Trump was dragged out of the White House kicking and screaming instead of acting like a real American and inviting Biden to the White House and discussing transitional events like every other POTUS has done since our country was formed.
I guess you forget to mention little details like that. Even so, after being kneecapped by the no shots fired surrender by the Afghani military to the Taliban terrorists freed by Trump and Pompeo from Pakistan, our military performed brilliantly in evacuating over 200,000 of our people in a couple weeks with minimum casualties. The casualties were a result of actions presumably taken at the behest of those released terrorists from Pakistan.
As far as Trump preventing Putin from invading (they already had invaded in 2014) Trump’s campaign was infested with people who were working with Putin stooges in Ukraine who were acting to undermine the Ukrainian government and steal the country blind for Putin and his crooked mobsters. Manafort comes to mind in concert with Firtash and others.
Even after it was discovered that Trumps campaign was compromised by Russian stooges Trump then sent Guiliani and a couple of Russian mobsters Fruman and Parnas to undermine our ambassador and the new Ukrainian President. Once Putin realized that his ally in the White House was kaput, then he decided to pull his illegal and murderous campaign to take over that country and kill its leaders. Fortunately, with the help of the US and NATO, President Zelenskyy and the brave freedom fighters of Ukraine are battling for their freedom and independence….