Originally Posted by
vaxedtothemax
all facilitated by Joe and European leaders frittering away sanctions against the Nordstream pipeline.
The war was basically avoidable had there been any form of common sense coming from Biden or the European leaders. Trump warned them, they pretty much laughed it off. Unless the video of Trump sitting down in a meeting specifically warning them was just another “cheap fake”?
You can go back to the seizure of Crimea. Obama tossed out some token sanctions, but wouldn’t even supply offensive arms. And Western Europe continued to buy cheap Russian gas, while promising to get their defense spending up to 2% in a decade or so, and generally failing to even do that. Three years into the war many major Western European economies were still struggling to get to 2%. Little Estonia at 3% does not offset Spain and Italy being below 2%. Besides, you don’t repair 35 years of underfunding in three years.