Sen. Menendez: No Matter What Happens, Putin Will Learn the West Is More Unified than Ever Before

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MITCHEL: "The U.S. is warning that Russia could possibly launch a false flag operation as a pretext to war probably in the east in fact. Are we prepared to deal with misinformation and raise those tactics that Putin likes to use? He used those in the past."
MENENDEZ: "Well, I’ve got to give enormous credit to the Biden Administration using its intelligence and being able to be classified in a way that has outed the Russians in each of these false flag attempts. And so, actually, we have, I think up to this point, outflanked them in terms of having an kind of pretext of an excuse. There is no excuse here. There is no aggression by Ukraine. They have done nothing to solicit the consequences that Putin has amassed along their frontier and the threat that they offer. You see Russian television talking about some type of mass genocide in Ukraine. Falsely, of course. So, it is constantly trying to create a set of circumstances in which it can have the alleged provocation, but there is no such thing. The world will see it. If Putin cross into Ukraine’s territory, it will be his aggression. And the one thing that, no matter what happens, whether there is diplomacy or there is an invasion that Putin will have to learn is that the west is more unified than ever before. The transatlantic alliance is more unified, NATO is stronger, there are thousands of troops put into part of eastern Europe that Putin would have never wanted to see. So far that calculus has worked out badly for him."