Biden gave very little military assistance to Ukraine until after Putin had invaded. Also, before the invasion Biden had indicated that if Putin 'made a minor incursion' into Ukraine that it would be nothing to be concerned about. Numerous times Biden refused to give Ukraine the military equipment they requested for fear of provoking Putin. Biden and the incompetent fools he has running the Pentagon and U.S. State Department expected and were willing to allow Ukraine to fall to Russia within a few weeks of the start of the invasion. If we had supplied Ukraine with the fighter jets, air defense systems, tanks, and artillery before the invasion, Putin's army could have been decimated on the highway from Belarus to Kiev at the very start of the war. I still clearly remember that long convoy of Russian troops and military equipment sitting for days and weeks completely out in the open on that highway. Unfortunately for the Ukrainians, they had neither the fighter jets, long range artillery, nor tanks they needed to destroy the convoy because Biden feared supplying those weapons would provoke Putin and start WW III.