First Biden's timidity and dithering over arms, which looks ridiculous today and led to so much needless difficulty and suffering for Ukraine. And then Trump, quite clearly favouring Putin and (obscenely) shaking down Ukraine at its most vulnerable point with the 'mineral deal'.
It's hard to imagine any earlier US administration not backing Ukraine to the hilt - pouring in advanced arms, strangling Russia with much harder sanctions, maybe even patrolling the skies of western Ukraine. The chance to take down the worst sort of nationalist tyrant, and one of the world's nastiest troublemakers? And one of the USA's longest standing enemy countries to boot? What President before these last two wouldn't have jumped at it?
War started in 2014. Obama did nothing.
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.
There's a strong case that they didn't even defeat the nazis, that was done by the Soviets.
The Soviet Union defeated the Nazis with US materiel. Without that, they probably don't get it done.
And even if what you said were true, the US still should have supported Ukraine more than it did, and should do so now.
The US can't subdue Iran, leave alone Russia. Or China.
But the original question was whether the US should be supporting Ukraine. You keep wanting to make this about the US going head-to-head against Russia or China, but that's not actually the subject under discussion here.
This isn't about the US against Russia/China. This is about the US and its vassals against the civilised world.
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/us-loses-51st-mq9-...
With Lend-Lease equipment. No matter what way you cut it, multiple nations defeated the Nazis together.
By the time the western allies reached Berlin the Soviets had already wrecked the Germans.
No one is arguing the US fought on the eastern front, the argument is over who suffered the most.
Don't take my word for it, read "When Titans Clashed" by Glantz and House.
The US and their vassals merely made you believe their propaganda: Patton the movie et al.
Are you British? They play word games.