No, Vlad is not dumb, not in the least.
There are those who point at Ukraine/Crimea and certain human rights abuses - the guy who was poisoned with polonium and now the dissident who is on a hunger strike, Nareyev, is it, and say that Vlad is an evil son of a bitch.
Could be...
One would also observe that Vlad seemed to get along fine with Trump. Vlad might be an evil son of a bitch, setting himself up for Emperor for life status, but he seems to GAF about his own country, something lacking all around in American political leadership.
In a way, one might not be offended to see Vlad administer a little personal payback for CornPop's humiliation, (who probably wasn't a total a*****e, being imaginary as he was) out behind the gym...
Anyway back to the subject... Joe will do whatever the CCP tells him to do regarding Taiwan. He could look the other way, or he could actively and assertively betray Taiwan. Whatever the boss wants, and it looks like we have a generation of Generals and Admirals who just might be totally down with it, no problem.
[Flame suit on.]
Biden is just a hologram, or might as well be.
We don’t even know who is running our country, that is, who is writing Senile Joe’s teleprompter scripts.