Donald Trump gave his opinion on the handling of the situation in Ukraine, and specifically called out President Biden for his lackluster leadership in a time of crisis.

“If properly handled, there was absolutely no reason that the situation currently happening in Ukraine should have happened at all,” he said.

“I know Vladimir Putin very well, and he would have never done during the Trump Administration what he is doing now, no way!” Trump wrote.

.@POTUS45:

"If properly handled, there was absolutely no reason that the situation currently happening in Ukraine should have happened at all. I know Vladimir Putin very well, and he would have never done during the Trump Administration what he is doing now, no way!"

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— Natalie Harp (@NatalieJHarp) February 22, 2022

“Russia has become very very rich during the Biden Administration, with oil prices doubling and soon to be tripling and quadrupling. The weak sanctions are insignificant relative to taking over a country and a massive piece of strategically located land.

He wrote: “Now it has begun, oil prices are going higher and higher, and Putin is not only getting what he always wanted, but getting, because of the oil and gas surge, richer and richer. The U.S. was energy independent under the Trump Administration, an independence that we had never obtained before, and oil prices would have remained low.

“Now, what a mess our country is in!” he concludes.

On Monday, Biden ordered sanctions on Russia-backed separatist regions after Putin identified them as independent states.

On Tuesday, Biden imposed sanctions on Russia and said that Russia’s recognition of the independence of the two Ukrainian states was “the beginning of a Russian invasion” of Ukraine.