Biden Vindicated?

I have no understanding of Russia, nor the Ukraine war, nor what's happening now with the Wagner group.

   But I've said for awhile now that I tend to agree with the Biden administration's policy of arming Ukraine...basically because I don't see any alternative. Expensive as this is, arming Ukraine is the cheapest way we have to raise the cost on Putin's expansionism. As a friend of mine has put it: we should be willing to fight to the last Ukranian. (Brutal though that attitude is.) 

   Many conservatives took up a view opposing the Biden strategy, seemingly just because, well, that position was an open one, and they can't stand Biden. (Seems to me that this is how a lot of right-left disputes in American politics get going.) Nobody really knows what to do. The Biden position sucks, but seems plausibly to be the least-bad option available. Conservatives loath Biden, so they incline to oppose him at every point. It was never clear what to do in Ukraine anyway...so advocating a hands-off position is not unreasonable. Next thing you know, all the conservatives have suddenly become peaceniks. About Ukraine, anyway. Of course all the blue-teamers who would normally be peaceniks have become war hawks...partially because they think Putin is the devil...but Russia did invade so...

   Anyway: if this ends up meaning the end of Putin...with nobody worse in his place...Biden will be heroified, however little he may have had to do with the strategy. Doesn't make a ton of sense--but doesn't make no sense either. And this is how things go in American politics, whether it makes sense or not.

   Of course I'd hate to see Biden and the blue team get any political mojo out of this. But I'm more interested in seeing Putin deposed. We might get someone worse...but it seems unlikely. (Or seems to seem that way to someone ignorant of Russian politics, anyway.)