If there were no nukes, your argument might have merit. But Nukes are there, so playing tough guy and threatening a heavily armed narcissistic thug is not a smart move. It’s the cornered rat syndrome, only this particular rat, if cornered, might destroy the entire planet. Biden did the best any reasonable person could under the circumstances to dissuade Putin from invasion without backing down or giving in to Putin’s demands. He also reunited the NATO alliance after the Orange moron trashed it and sucked up to Putin instead…