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Tom Cole: “The Russians didn't see [the Ukraine war] coming either…”

Featuring: Tom Cole, Republican | U.S. House Oklahoma, 4th Congressional District

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Published | Video Starts at 14:18

So I will tell you, I actually feel good. We sort of got lucky if you want to call other people's misfortune lucky. We've watched what happened in Ukraine. Frankly The Russians didn't see [the Ukraine war] coming either. They thought that was going to be a four week war and again they're in the fifth year now. They thought that it was going to be a cakewalk. They have five to 600,000 dead Russians, million more casualties on top of that. (14:18–14:24)

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Asserts that Russia expected the Ukraine war to last four weeks, but it has continued for five years.

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