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I've been saying it since day one. Bolton confirms I'm right.
Ex-Trump national security advisor John Bolton says 'Putin saw Trump doing a lot of his work for him,' so he chose not to invade Ukraine
Oma Seddiq
Wed, March 9, 2022, 5:10 PM
John Bolton, who served as President Donald Trump's national security advisor, on Wednesday said that Russian President Vladimir Putin didn't invade Ukraine while Trump was in office because "Putin saw Trump doing a lot of his work for him."
- Former national security advisor John Bolton said "Putin saw Trump doing a lot of his work for him."
- Trump considered withdrawing the US from NATO while he was president.
- Bolton said it's one of the reasons that Putin did not invade Ukraine during Trump's time in office.
Bolton pointed to Trump's outspoken criticism of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the military and diplomatic alliance established in the wake of World War II.
"I think one of the reasons that Putin did not move during Trump's term in office was he saw the president's hostility of NATO. It was widely reported in American media," Bolton said during an interview with SiriusXM's Julie Mason. "And to Putin's mind, it's a binary proposition: a weaker NATO is a stronger Russia."
Ex-Trump national security advisor John Bolton says 'Putin saw Trump doing a lot of his work for him,' so he chose not to invade Ukraine
Bolton's comments come as Trump has repeatedly insisted that Putin would never have invaded Ukraine if he were president.www.yahoo.com
You see, this is why Bolton will never be as wise as he presents himself. Even being so close to Trump, he was unable to decipher talk from action. He is comfortable with being able to sneakily get details from the usual politicians, passing himself off as some sage, but Trump played Game Theory with his business acumen, he didn't play politics.
One big worry Putin would have, and you can be sure he has spies close to the W.H in any administration just as the U.S have them in the Kremlin; he couldn't rely on information from these sources. He was in effect, in the dark. He might be sharper than Trump in the Shadow Game but Trump knows how to sell and deceive in an unconventional way. Trump might say one thing on Monday and then Tuesday, without warning, do something different.
For instance. Trump criticized NATO, however, he then forced others to pay their fair share and Trump pushed American-made weapons and jets they could buy with their new investment.
He called out China, hit them with tariffs and then negotiated a trade agreement. Ditto for Canada.
Trump warned Kim of consequences that including lighting up his nation and then met with him as if they were old pals, just weeks from threatening to decimate him if he doesn't settle down. Trump didn't give up a damned thing and was never going to.
So guys like Bolton are beside themselves that the Establishment politician and his administration hat he supported was unable to prevent war, while Trump, regardless of the opinion some had of him was able to do so.
In short, Bolton is ashamed. So are the Vindmans and Hills of the world, among many. So are the Grahams, Romneys, Cheneys and Crenshaws, CNN, MSNBC and their Talking Heads. They may have varying degrees of guilt and the concern for being wrong so many times in their lives, but they feel some shame regardless.
Yes, they were all wrong. Maybe Putin invades even if Trump were president, but, I bet he would think much longer and harder. You can also be sure that Ukraine would have been armed to the teeth and the proxy war would have been in the U.S favour.
I'm not going to blame this attack on Biden, but I will say that Putin has only invaded other nations since the 1990s when a Dem was president. He understands their administrations much better.
