As war rages in Europe, Biden takes the weekend off

 Power Line:

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As pretty much everyone has pointed out, Vladimir Putin annexed Crimea when Barack Obama was president (and Joe Biden was Vice President), did nothing while Donald Trump was president, and then invaded Ukraine while Joe Biden is ostensibly at the wheel. Coincidence? Funny how the Biden administration is a cascading series of unhappy coincidences.

This story about Trump is making the rounds:

One has it that Trump — noting that Putin seized land from Georgia when George W. Bush was president and seized the Crimean peninsula when Barack Obama was president — warned Putin against a land grab on his watch.

“If you move against Ukraine while I’m president,” Trump is said to have told the Russian leader, “I will hit Moscow.”

Is it true? I doubt it, especially if Trump is the only source. But even if that anecdote is exaggerated or made up out of whole cloth, the broader point may be valid. Unpredictability is a good thing in a world leader. I think it is quite plausible that the Russians stayed their hand during the Trump administration because it was hard to tell what that unorthodox, aggressive and pro-American character might do.

Also, it is good when your chief executive is not senile, incompetent and corrupt.

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There is more.

There is also the fact that when Russian forces in Syria attacked US troops, Trump had US forces wipe them out and Putin did back off.  

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