I was reading it like, what the fuck are they talking about, his entire shtick was going to Europe and saying "We need to you to spend more on NATO! It's a bad deal folks! We aren't getting enough! If they don't pay up then we'll withdraw!"

I won't deny that he was more Russia-friendly than Biden ended up being but "absolute frothing at the mouth hatred" isn't a hard bar to pass. Like, not wanting to start an extremely transparent proxy war with your long-time nuclear rival just seems like common sense