You know, to be partisan for a minute. I don't think we would have been in this situation had we not had the Biden administration and the mix signaling the withdrawal of Afghanistan, The very weak signaling on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline...gave a green light to Putin to go into Ukraine. That didn't happen under the first Trump term. I don't think it would have happened under a second Trump term. But now we got to bring the conflict to an end, and there's enormous killing, enormous economic damage. (13:14–13:22)
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Asserts that weak signaling on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline encouraged Putin to invade Ukraine.
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