C’mon, Popey, Putin has discovered a way to manipulate Biden into draining our treasury. He’s not done milking the old man until Trump steps in... if ever.
This is an interesting point.
When Gorbachev returned to Moscow from Reykavik in 1986, he told the Politburo that he knew exactly how Reagan was going to try to bring down the USSR; it would be by forcing the Soviets to spend money until the Soviet Union collapsed.
I have thought for some time that as we brought down Communism in Russia, Putin would (ironically) return us the favor, but I didn't think our spending would be the means by which he did it.