We came in and gave him the kind of Stinger missiles and resources that I think prevented Vladimir Putin from invading Ukraine during our four years in office. And literally in the aftermath of the Biden administration's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, I think Putin was emboldened [by the Biden administration's withdrawal from Afghanistan]. He rolled across the border. He's made no secret of his ambitions. And while I had concerns and expressed them in those first hundred days about the president's kind of … (01:40–01:49)
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Asserts that the Biden administration's withdrawal from Afghanistan emboldened Putin.
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