All good points.
Much as I admire CNN's reporting from inside Russia and the Ukraine, they have also taken time out to attack Trump, specially quoting him out of context as if he were a Putin sympathiser.
Looking at the U.S. foreign policy under Trump, even while his home policy was in ruins, foreign pocy started no new wars and reached a detente of sorts with foreign powers.
Just in contrast to how the aging Biden has handled it (or his handlers have handled it)...
Trump signed off on anti-tank missile sales to Ukraine, successfully urged more NATO members to meet defense spending responsibilities, and approved sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany.
"The reason people are talking about Trump is because everyone knows that Putin didn't dare move on Ukraine when he was in power for a reason," The Federalist's Mollie Hemingway claimed. "Trump was tougher on Russia where it mattered, including bolstering our energy production and reducing Russian leverage over Western Europe, but not needlessly provocative such as by pushing NATO expansion to Russia's border. Biden has done the opposite of Trump in foreign policy and the result is that in less than a year, Putin felt empowered to do what he's doing now."
All hypothetical, but I think it's a very long time since America had a worthy leader. When it comes to choosing between two worst options, the bottom of their barrel seems to know no limit. I predicted when Biden took power that he would be good for America and bad for the rest of the world. So far that does maybe seem to have the case. Putin on the other hand is a 'strong' leader, militarily and at home, yet ideologically unsound: and now he has put his own interests, grumbles and determination for a place in history over and above the interests of the Russian people.