And if you don't think the world was watching that and drawing the lessons out of what kind of president we had and what would be possible under that, then I think you're probably misinformed about how judgments are made. Reality is, Vladimir Putin was watching and he remembered, gosh, in the Obama Biden administration, we took Crimea and nothing happened. That administration sent meals ready to eat and blankets. First person to get over Ukraine, legal aid was actually down the front. And then they said, you know, nothing happened there. (13:09–13:20)
CLAIM
Asserts that Putin was emboldened by the lack of response to Crimea's annexation.
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