That's what makes dealing with Putin so difficult for the weak Dementia Joe. Putin's apparent paranoia and insanity usually don't line up with logic and common sense. The one thing we know about strongmen dictators (strongperson dictators? being PC nowadays...) like Putin is they only respect strength.
And of course with a feckless leader like Biden, whose tactics include publicly taking options off the table, this only results in an emboldened Putin. And we're seeing the effects of that with his indiscriminate shelling of civilian facilities like hospitals and nuclear power plants. Actually, it's not indiscriminate at all, that sick bastard.
Of course, with a strong leader like Trump, it's likely none of this would have happened. But idiots out there still buy into the lying media's, and big tech's, etc. Russian collusion hoax. They're just too damn stupid to comprehend the old saying, keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. Too stupid, and too impacted by their collective group think, which includes chronic cases of TDS.
If Putin didn't have the nukes, his ass would have been kicked back to Moscow already. The Russian military couldn't defeat the Texas National Guard (hyperbole? perhaps...), let alone the US military, or NATO backed by our military, and Putin knows it. Talk about Biden sending the wrong message to shithole countries like Iran and N. Korea; get a nuke, kick America's ass! Thanks Dementia Joe! Your feckless, weak leadership is likely going to drag us into a shooting war. Have you *EVER* been right on foreign policy? Even once in your entire career? I don't think so.
Speaking of which, thanks for your impending Iran deal. It's going to give Iran nukes in exchange for oil. Nothing says feckless leader like suppressing US energy production, then going to countries like Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, on your knees, begging for them to increase supply. Dementia Joe should have had that lined up in advance, assuming he's *still* to stupid and/or intimidated by green terrorists here in the US to unleash American energy production.
With Biden, our prices were always going to be high. Although I suspect, prankster, that the price you're referring to is far greater than Dementia Joe's 'Bidenflation'. If we get into a shooting war with the Russians, the price will be very high.
Sorry for the rant... Normally I'd have squeezed all that into the meme! Of course, nobody would even look at it if that were the case.