We didn't install a puppet government in Ukraine. Russia tried to install a puppet government in Ukraine that the Ukrainians in turn rejected not least of which

We didn't install a puppet government in Ukraine. Russia tried to install a puppet government in Ukraine that the Ukrainians in turn rejected not least of which after the man who would be puppet met protests with violence. Then he fled back to his masters in Moscow. Nothing "triggered" the invasion of Ukraine but Putin's greed. He himself said in an essay that it necessary to steal Ukraine sooner rather than later not to preserve the security of Russia which is rendered inviolable not by buffer states but by 1200 nukes but because it would be impossible to steal it later without fighting NATO. Assigning blame to the US is like blaming a wife's talkative friend for the beating her abuser handed out because he feared rightly that her "vacation" was really her fleeing his clutches. It's deeply offensive. A stopped clock may be right twice a day but Trump was not. His sol meaningful action in that area was an attempt to sell Ukraine on a politically manipulative investigation of his domestic rival in exchange for the supplies already authorized by congress. He did nothing. He did however repeatedly according to his own people repeatedly express the desire to torpedo NATO which would have served to embolden Russia. We can probably credit both his handlers and the voters who rejected his second term for him not having a worse effect.