"Bolton: Putin Saw Trump As His Lackey"

"Trump's former NSA said Putin loved how Trump dealt with our NATO
allies. Loved it."

"Donald Trump's former National Security Advisor said Putin didn't
invade Ukraine in Trump's first term because he saw the former so-called president doing "a lot of his work for him."

Bolton spoke with SiriusXM’s Julie Mason about what would have happened
if Trump was able to fulfill his wish to take the United States out of NATO"

"Bolton said, "I think one of the reasons Putin did not move during
Trump’s term in office was he saw the president’s hostility in NATO. It
was widely reported in American media, and to Putin’s mind, it’s a
binary proposition, a weaker NATO is a stronger Russia.”

“So I think he saw, Putin saw Trump doing a lot of his work for him and thought maybe in a second term, Trump would make good on his desire to
get out of NATO, and then it would just ease Putin’s path just that much more” he said.

Everyone saw Trump trying to withdraw from NATO. And it was an
international embarrassment to observe his fanboy love of Putin."
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https://crooksandliars.com/2022/03/bolton-putin-saw-trump-doing-his-work-him

TB

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