If you read back thru posts, when Cheating Biden made the disastrous move to pull out of Afghanistan this stupidity was posted then. It was posted then that Biden's blunder would enbolden opposition leaders all over to take more aggressive actions. And it has! Then add to that Biden being soft on Putin and allowing the pipeline, Biden's move after move, his continuing acts of stupidity and weakness, have been mainly responsible for Putin to think he could get away with this.