So, you know, great power activity by both the United States and Russia has shown and basically told smaller countries, if you're worried about one of these two big guys, maybe you better get a Nuclear deterrent yourself. So We made a mistake in encouraging the Ukrainians to give it up [nuclear weapons]. And frankly, we made a mistake in after we got Libya. We didn't have to help Libya, but we shouldn't have intervened in the civil war and a bombing campaign to take out a country that had given up willingly its WMDs. (22:24–22:31)
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Asserts that it was a mistake to encourage Ukraine to give up its nuclear weapons.
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