And why it is a strategic blunder is well covered in the thread I posted and the individuals cited therein if you had read it rather than take up the neocon warmongering corrupt crony Ukraine is our money laundromat side.
Note bene - Whatever Ukraines state of corruption, the payments to Biden and co came from Russia or Russian proxies (Burisima) in Ukraine. Putin was buying Biden.
The US MSM was deliberately playing that down (for obvious reasons, it would have made Biden look even worse), and you swallowed their line.
Strategy comes from the bottom up also, not just top-down. The plans of the masterminds are oft ruined by uncooperative peoples.