Cutting bait is the only thing that makes sense.
Biden enabled this with his lifting of Nordsteam 2 completion assistance ban put in place on US companies by Trump (simply because it was Put in place by Trump, it would appear). He both improved Putin’s funding mechanism while increasing Putin’s expectation for increased Euro dependence on Russian oil (and thus making it less likely there would be real opposition from either EU or US who would need the EU support).
Biden also projected weakness with his Afghanistan Withdrawal debacle, and because the last time he was in power with Obama, Putin saw that Biden only sent blankets instead of arms as he invaded and took Crimea.
Then Joe gave the speech saying that a “minor incursion” could be tolerated as Putin had his forces poised to invade for weeks while Zelensky was begging for military aid, and Biden was saying no.
There was a time to both prevent and win his war, but Joe Biden missed them both long ago…the man with the worst instincts in all of Washington per both R’s and D’s.