Supporters of Ukraine had three major criticisms of former President Joe Biden. First, he supplied Ukraine with weapons, but it was always too little, too late. Second, he lacked a strategy beyond supporting Ukraine for “as long as it takes.” Third, as much as he wanted Ukraine to survive, he didn’t actually want Russia to lose, fearing that a collapsed Russian state would cause even more chaos and misery.

These criticisms were justified. But compared to what his successor in the Oval Office is doing, he now looks like pure genius.

Biden achieved three important goals. First, Ukraine survived Putin’s invasion. Second, it won back a good portion of the territory Russia had seized in the first weeks of the war. And third, by helping Ukraine stave off Russia, Biden degraded the Russian armed forces and thereby undermined Russia's ability to project power in the world.

Those were no small achievements, but they were made to look picayune by Biden’s critics, especially President Trump. Trump has often claimed that there never would have been a war if he had been in charge. The beauty of such a counterfactual is that a false premise can logically entail any and every possible outcome. So, yes, the Russians might not have invaded if Trump had been president in 2022, but they could have just as well have, say, dropped an........

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