Originally Posted by Matter-eater Man
I would suggest you do some more reading about the social security payments going to 150 year olds. That’s not true and is a result of the government using cobalt. Just because Trump/Elon declare something that doesn’t make it true. Like Ukraine starting the war with Russia.

Time will tell.

While Russia obviously invaded Ukraine, it could be argued that Ukraine could have done more to de-escalate the grievances of Putin, especially Ukraine seeking NATO membership, that as I posted at the time, Putin made for 25 years crystal clear was a red line he would never accept, and was very clear he would go to war over, before he would allow Ukraine to do so. .
It is also no coincidence that Biden at a press conference was asked about NATO membership for Ukraine, and Biden stupidly said "Oh yeah, I think we should fast-track that.."
And a week later, that is precisely when Putin launched his invasion.

It's not just by coincidence that Putin invaded Crimea in 2014 when Obama was president, then made no further advances when Trump was president, and then resumed and expanded his invasion of Ukraine in March 2022 when Biden had become president, after Biden had already shown incompetence and weakness in Afghanistan in August 2021.
That is exactly when the Russian buildup of forces began on Ukraine's borders.

That said, Putin's conduct of the war in Ukraine has been especially brutal, in the unnecessary slaughter of civilians, mass rape of women as a terror weapon, mutilations, and executions, that one reporter this week called "medeival".
Clearly, Putin's goal was to overwhelm and confuse Ukraine into an almost immediate surrender in early 2022, but that obviously didn't happen, and it just settled into a World War I -like trench war for the last 3 years, described as a "meat grinder" of pointless, endless slaughter.
And when Russia has a population of over 140 million, and Ukraine has a population of 41 million (and that was at THE BEGINNING of the war, and a third of that population has already fled Ukraine, and are living as refugees in other countries, and I've met a number of them here in the U.S.). That is a war of attrition that Ukraine cannot win, and is already running out of men.

There are ways that Trump is threatening Russia economically behind the scenes, and as in Trump's first 4 years as President, Russia will again lose the oil revenue to continue the war.
Whereas Biden ceased to enforce oil sanctions on Russia's oil in 2021, that gave Russia a $100 billion war-chest, so that Biden essentially funded Russia's Ukraine war himself.

Likewise the sanctions no longer enforced on Iran by Biden, that allowed Iran to again fund Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Fatah and other ventures, terror groups that were unfunded and breaking up during Trump's first term, because Iran had lost the treasury to fund them.
That Biden again (by accident or design) threw a reviving lifeline and billions of cash and oil revenue to, that started major wars in both Ukraine and Gaza/Israel .