An invasion would mess that up. He would have been a fool not to wait. Once Orange lost, no reason not to do so.
Orange never once stood up to Putin and in fact initially praised the invasion.
As usual your comment of me being a New Dealer is wrong. There were some aspects of it that were good, others not so much. (Editorially, that was your original post which you then changed.) I was praising FDR for his foresight in recognizing and trying to deal with the Hitler threat while much of the rest of the nation, including most of the GOP were isolationist and wouldn’t do so.
History often rhymes.
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