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by mamonster 32 days ago
>What President before these last two wouldn't have jumped at it?

This ignores/forgets the fact that Biden had the Ukraine crisis directly after Covid ending so he basically couldn't actually go all in on the conflict.

>It's hard to imagine any earlier US administration not backing Ukraine to the hilt

Earlier administrations were operating in a much better economic environment and had a much higher international standing. Don't forget that outside of Europe US standing was dropping already before Trump 2.