{"id":416233,"date":"2022-03-15T04:19:17","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T01:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/no-biden-fans-trump-didnt-cause-the-ukraine-war\/"},"modified":"2022-03-15T04:19:17","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T01:19:17","slug":"no-biden-fans-trump-didnt-cause-the-ukraine-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/no-biden-fans-trump-didnt-cause-the-ukraine-war\/","title":{"rendered":"#No, Biden fans, Trump didn&#8217;t cause the Ukraine war"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40633445750\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40633445750\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/no-biden-fans-trump-didnt-cause-the-ukraine-war\/#%E2%80%9CNo_Biden_fans_Trump_didnt_cause_the_Ukraine_war%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;No, Biden fans, Trump didn&#8217;t cause the Ukraine war&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CNo_Biden_fans_Trump_didnt_cause_the_Ukraine_war%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;No, Biden fans, Trump didn&#8217;t cause the Ukraine war&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/rich-lowry.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Rich Lowry\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/rich-lowry.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/rich-lowry.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>        <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>More than a year into the Biden presidency, Russian President Vladimir Putin has invaded a sovereign neighboring country and, of course, everyone knows who to blame \u2014 Joe Biden\u2019s predecessor.<\/p>\n<p>In an instance of misdirection for the ages, a spate of commentary has pointed the finger at Donald Trump for supposedly creating the predicate for Putin\u2019s brutalizing of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no doubt that Trump has long had an <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>arently uncontrollable reflex to say warm things about Vladimir Putin. He foolishly mused about pulling out of NATO. And his withholding of aid to Ukraine for a partisan political purpose \u2014 to pressure the Ukrainian government to uncover dirt related to the Bidens \u2014 was a tawdry abuse of power (and led to his first impeachment).<\/p>\n<p>No one should hold Trump up as a paragon, but to blame him for sparking a delayed-fuse geopolitical cataclysm that just happened to explode on Biden\u2019s watch is wholly ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p>Trump critic Lt. Col. (Ret.) Alexander Vindman, who had a star turn as a witness at Trump\u2019s first impeachment, says Trump emboldened Putin and left Ukraine unprepared to defend itself. Former US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch says Trump sent the world the message that Ukraine was a mere pawn. A piece in The New York Review of Books says Trump \u201cpaved Putin\u2019s way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is no support for this argument in a world where facts and logic \u2014 or basic chronology \u2014 mean something.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, Russia had grabbed Crimea and started a long-running war in eastern Ukraine in 2014, long before anyone had any notion that Donald Trump would run for president, let alone win. It clearly didn\u2019t take Trump to give Putin the idea that he could get away with invading Ukraine \u2014 he invaded Ukraine and got away with it under the administration of Barack Obama, when, by the way, Joe Biden was vice president.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/vladimir-putin-17.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Vladimir Putin's aggression in Ukraine started before Trump became president.\" class=\"wp-image-21527209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/vladimir-putin-17.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/vladimir-putin-17.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/vladimir-putin-17.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Vladimir Putin\u2019s aggression in Ukraine started before Trump became president.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Biden advisers now admit that the sanctions back then were too timid, a concession that they let Putin off too lightly. Surely, that must have figured into the Russian leader\u2019s calculation whether to invade yet again.<\/p>\n<p>Then, there\u2019s the fact that Obama steadfastly resisted providing Ukraine lethal aid \u2014 <em>after<\/em> it had already been invaded. Bipartisan opposition to Obama didn\u2019t move him. He believed deeply in the appeaser\u2019s logic that it would be too \u201cprovocative\u201d to give Ukraine weapons simply to defend itself.<\/p>\n<p>Again, Trump had nothing to do with this misbegotten decision \u2014 indeed, he criticized it.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s offense in 2019 was to delay military aid \u2014 including Javelin missiles \u2014 that Congress had approved for Ukraine, in a reversal of Obama\u2019s policy. Trump never should have engaged in this self-interested <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>smanship, but he released the assistance by September 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Another line of argument is that Putin didn\u2019t invade Ukraine during the Trump administration because the Russian leader was already getting everything he wanted from Trump, including the destabilization of NATO. The outward expression of Trump\u2019s doubts about the alliance, though, largely took the form of loud complaints about European countries skimping on defense spending, which were completely justified.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/joe-biden-14.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"President Biden deserves some blame for the crisis in Ukraine.\" class=\"wp-image-21527215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/joe-biden-14.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/joe-biden-14.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/joe-biden-14.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>President Biden deserves some blame for the crisis in Ukraine.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Photo by Drew Angerer\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Indeed, it\u2019s perverse that German Chancellor Angela Merkel was made into a great heroine of Western statesmanship at the same time she maintained a pathetic level of defense spending and deepened Germany\u2019s energy dependence on Russia in a way that was more dangerous than anything Trump said or tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>And it wasn\u2019t Trump who told Biden to execute a humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan, to give Putin the gift of a summit after he menaced Ukraine the first time, to remove sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, to speak forthrightly about Western divisions at a pre-invasion press conference or to forgo pre-emptive sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>All that is on Biden, and all of it \u2014 especially the Afghan fiasco \u2014 had to make an impression on Putin. Now it may well have been that Putin was undeterrable, but that makes it all the more outlandish and dumb to blame a former US president for his depredations.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>: @RichLowry<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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