One of the reasons Putin invaded Ukraine with President Joe Biden in the White House was that he expected the US to "sue for peace" and thought it would be better to deal with Biden than trying to negotiate with someone like Trump, whom the Russian leader had "to explain everything to all the time," Hill, who served as the top Russia advisor on the National Security Council under Trump, said Tuesday at a Chicago Council on Global Affairs event.
"He thought that somebody like Biden — who's a transatlanticist, who knows all about NATO, who actually knows where Ukraine is, and actually knows something about the history, and is very steeped in international affairs — would be the right person to engage with," Hill said.
Similarly, Trump's former White House chief of staff Gen. John Kelly also once said Trump "doesn't know any history at all, even some of the basics on the US," says Hill's new book, "There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century," which was published last year.
In the book, Hill writes that Trump's meager comprehension of international affairs was a "major liability" for US national security.
So we're to believe Putin wanted a sharp smart Biden in office when he invaded not the stupid Trump. I mean other than H who would swallow this load?
http://twitter.com/MaxAbrahms/status/1527052939721949185?t=bJjbC2bQevCU-2f2cSbucQ&s=19
Meltdown on an epic scale
"He thought that somebody like Biden — who's a transatlanticist, who knows all about NATO, who actually knows where Ukraine is, and actually knows something about the history, and is very steeped in international affairs — would be the right person to engage with," Hill said.
Similarly, Trump's former White House chief of staff Gen. John Kelly also once said Trump "doesn't know any history at all, even some of the basics on the US," says Hill's new book, "There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century," which was published last year.
In the book, Hill writes that Trump's meager comprehension of international affairs was a "major liability" for US national security.
So we're to believe Putin wanted a sharp smart Biden in office when he invaded not the stupid Trump. I mean other than H who would swallow this load?
http://twitter.com/MaxAbrahms/status/1527052939721949185?t=bJjbC2bQevCU-2f2cSbucQ&s=19
Meltdown on an epic scale
