Secretary of State Antony Blinken sputtered and stumbled after Chuck Todd asked him why Vladimir Putin didn’t dare try these tactics in Ukraine while Trump was in office.
It’s kind of hilarious. I kept the prior question in the clip and I’ll you why. It’s about cyber attacks, and the answer Blinken gives on how Biden tried to approach Putin over a cyberwarfare threat tells you the answer to the question of why Putin didn’t dare do this while Trump had the button.
What’s really funny is how Chuck Todd spoonfeeds him the question with a ton of bashing intro maybe hoping for a collusion answer and Blinken still blows it.
“The president was conveying to president Putin how seriously we take this and the need for Russia to do something about it because those engaged in the attacks were doing it from Russian soil,” says Blinken. Biden brought up Russia’s big oil business and said that Biden told Putin “He knows how difficult it would be for something to happen to that infrastructure.”
That mealy-mouthed bass-ackward way of trying to cajole Putin to stop threatening us, instead of TELLING him what’s what, is the answer to why Putin is doing whatever he wants and don’t give a dang fig about Biden’s objections.
Biden’s not even a paper tiger, he’s a paper mouse.
Blinkens stuttering answer that Putin felt like the time was ripe now was pathetic and embarrassing. It’s now because NATO and the United States no longer intimidate him. Not while Captain Senile and the Pronouns are in office.