Sen. Cotton: Putin Has Seen Biden’s Performance over the Last Year and Thinks He Can Get Away with Anything

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COTTON: “Vladimir Putin has watched Joe Biden for a year appease and conciliate with him, that's why he thinks he can get away with this invasion of Ukraine. It has nothing to do with short-term considerations like Ukraine joining NATO or NATO exercising in Ukraine, that's simply not happening. Ukraine doesn’t have a plan to join NATO, we’re not conducting exercising in Ukraine. This is about Vladimir Putin’s long-standing desire to reassembly the Russian empire and to create a buffer of non-Democratic states around his autocratic role. The question is why does he think he can go for the jugular in Ukraine now? And I think the answer is that he's seen Joe Biden’s performance over the last year --"
FAULKNER: "Wow."
COTTON: "-- and thinks that he can get away with it."