He’s a dyed in the wool isolationist. This payment thing is only his cover. Anyone really committed to the alliance wouldn't have handled it that way. Russia hasn’t move on the West. Nah they are just digesting their gains in Ukraine which he wanted to remove sanctions over. By the way he was also pissed that DOD sold that shit to Ukraine. That was Mattis and Bolton. Fight an endless war, no. But don’t just turn it over to Putin like a craven coward. Let’s hear the rest of yer defense if yiu have any.