But Obama chose Biden as VP for his foreign policy expertise! Both of them are idiots!
Russia’s surface area ensures their oil and gas will outlast everyone else’s. Putin knows this. He knows Russian dominance is inevitable. So he has no desire to interfere with inevitability by creating excuse for war.
He wins by letting the status quo persist.
One might suspect Biden of knowing it, too, but his Green wackos would never allow this narrative to exist. They will persuade him oil and gas don’t matter.
So his motivation must be purely domestic politics.
He had “gravitas”