Bolton: Putin Didn’t Invade While Trump Was In Office Because Trump Was “Doing A Lot Of His Work For Him”

The Hill reports:

Former national security adviser John Bolton said Wednesday that one of the reasons that Russian President Vladimir Putin did not move to invade Ukraine during former President Trump’s term in office was that he saw “Trump doing a lot of his work for him.”

He said in an interview on SiriusXM’s “Julie Mason Mornings” that he thought maybe in a second term, Trump would “make good” on his “desire to get out of NATO,” which would then ease Putin’s path forward. Bolton said he believes that the Russian president thinks “a weaker NATO” equals a “stronger Russia.”

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Bolton said he thought maybe in a second term, Trump would “make good” on his “desire to get out of NATO,” which would then ease Putin’s path forward. https://t.co/owWKkXjMfa

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