Heh. The main reason Putin attacked NOW is almost certainly because of who is in the oval office. Would he have done it with Trump there? I highly doubt it.
Reportedly, Trump said to Putin:
“If you attack Ukraine, I will bomb Moscow!”
That supposedly scared Putin enough to stop.
While resident Biden just hides in his basements and signals to Putin what we are NOT going to do!
Now he even uses Russia to negotiate surrender in Iran!
Utmost madness!