Trump claims that Putin would never have invaded Ukraine had he still been president. This is the opposite of true. Trump’s advisers reportedly warned him that blowing up NATO would be unpopular and could cost him reelection.

“Yeah, the second term,” Trump is said to have responded. “We’ll do it in the second term.”

Had Trump succeeded, Putin would now have free rein to rampage through Eastern Europe and who knows where else.

After calling Putin “a genius” for invading Ukraine, Trump added, “I know him very well. Very, very well.”

Apparently not nearly as well as Putin knows Trump.

As a wartime president, Biden has one mission: to stop the aggressor. He doesn’t have the luxury to obsess over rough poll numbers related to inflation. And the culture wars can wait. Right now, the only war that matters is the one directed at defeating Putin.