So perhaps you need to show some proof of that weird post of yours.
I am not sure what proof you need. This is all my recollection but, I know that Putin met the newly “elected” Biden at some gathering in Europe. They weren’t the only ones there. This is before Russia does anything in Ukraine. I know that Biden ordered State Department people out of Ukraine before Russia invaded and announced a date on which he expected that to occur. Russian troops entered days later than Biden said.
How could Putin meet with Biden and fail to notice the state Biden was in? I don’t see it as possible. How could Putin not know what Biden’s handlers were doing in Ukraine? I also don’t see that as possible. I cannot believe that Putin was not in a position to dictate the terms of what we now see unfolding. This will include some eventual “peace”, the terms of which, I suspect, are already agreed upon.
If you disagree, or see something otherwise, please feel free to comment to me. I appreciate peoples’ attempts to see FR as a debating society, but I also see it as an opinion and ideas forum. This article talks about the war in a way that I do not see it.