He did the same thing with George Bush when he moved in on Georgia. The "launched war" on Ukraine was in preparation long before Biden took office, but Putin had his puppet in the White House at the time so there was little reason to invade Ukraine when Trump was already doing his bidding. The purpose for the invasion is because he doesn't want NATO getting too close to their borders. Trump spent most of his time in office attacking NATO and he's recently gone on record saying he would have pulled us out of NATO had he won a second term. All of that is music to Putin's ears.
That's a fairly stupid remark. Like Romney would have done anything to prevent the largest Nuclear power in the world from taking back their former territories. You keep getting refuted on that over context but as always, you aren't interested in actual learning. Obama was aware of the way George Bush encouraged North Korea to start a nuclear weapons program by calling them members of the "axis of evil." That remark was dumb and served no purpose, but we ended up paying for it later. Likewise, Romney's remark on Russia calling them our #1 enemy seemed to come out of nowhere and it could only serve that same purpose of provocation.The 1980's called and asked for their foreign policy back. Every voter who brought that line during the election of 2012 debate is in part to blame for what is happening now.
Military hasn't been defunded you ignorant twit. We spend more money on military than the next eleven countries combined.This is what happens when the US defunds the military
So Putin was desperately trying to get Trump into office during both elections because... he was afraid of him? Trump has likely been compromised by Russia which is why he bent over backwards trying to appease Putin. He did nothing when they attacked our election system, and instead called our US intelligence a bunch of incompetent liars because "Putin denied it forcefully.", goes into isolationist mode, leaves a vacuum of power on the world stage, and displays a foreign policy of apology and weakness that the frail and demented Joe Biden has.
Tell Vladmir that I'll have more flexibility after my next election.
What's wrong with that? Every second term President has more flexibility because they're not concerned with winning another election. Why do you think Trump was putting off initiatives like pulling out of NATO? He could've done that during his first term but it would have been too risky. The way you idiots on the Right spin this as some kind of proof of corruption is pretty damn hilarious.