Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   GOOOFY Date:   2/28/2022 9:28:24 AM

List of things he could have done to prevent the invasion.  First, he should have declined to run for President, thereby allowing Sanders to be the nominee and there is no way they could have cheated enough to make self avowed socialist the winner so Trump would be President and we would have four more years of calm as bad actors would be hunkered down.  This is why Putin chose to invade now, just like he invaded Crimea when the WH was occupied by another wimp (Obama), backed up by the feckless Biden.  

But he didn't so he could have not approved Nordstream 2 which would deny Putin petro dollars and influence over western Europe.  He could have continued with the Keystone pipeline and promoted our energy industry so we would be a net exporter.  He could have been even mildly competent in the withdrawal from Afghanistan instead of being a bumbling idiot which emboldened our adversaries.  He could have nominated competent people to his admin that understand how to project strength and resolve instead of weakness and incompetence.  He could have pushed back on NATO expansion to the east which Russia takes as a threat to their security and remove one  reason to invade.  He could have told Putin that if he invades the U.S. would push for them to be removed from SWIFT which would destroy the wealth of the oligarchs which would have gotten them to push back on his expansion plans. 

But at the end of the day there was probably nothing that Biden could have done to convince Putin that having a senile, old man who was wrong on pretty much every foreign policy decision in his entire career in the WH was a once in a lifetime opportunity to realize his ambition to reassemble the USSR at very little cost.  With Trump they had no idea what he would do which was why they simply could not take the chance.  With Dementia Joe they knew that the U.S. would not be an obstacle.