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Former Trump White House national security official Fiona Hill said Russian President Vladimir Putin had to explain everything to all the time to former President Trump. He had to keep explaining things, and Putin doesnt like to do that, Hill said this week, speaking at a Chicago Council on Global Affairs event in remarks reported by Insider.
Hill added that Putin intentionally chose to invade Ukraine during President Bidens tenure in the White House. He thought that somebody like Biden, whos 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 as opposed to somebody that you have to explain everything to all the time, honestly, the former national security official added.
Hill also said Putin frequently would become frustrated with Trump over the former presidents lack of knowledge on geopolitical issues. You could see that he got frustrated many times with President Trump, Hill said. Even though he loves to be able to spin his own version of events, he wants to have predictability in the person that hes engaging with. Hill added that Putin was perhaps still maybe out there, you know, waiting for us to sue for peace, negotiate away Ukraine.
Her remarks come nearly three months into Russias invasion of Ukraine and as the Senate is preparing to pass a package for the besieged country and send another $40 billion in aid. That aid package was delayed by objections from Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who insisted that leaders add language to give an inspector general oversight of how humanitarian and military assistance is spent in Ukraine.
https://thehill.com/policy/international/3494013-fiona-hill-says-putin-had-to-keep-explaining-things-to-trump/
MissMillie
(38,587 posts)it's amazing things didn't fall apart sooner.
CJW
(120 posts)n/t
Chautauquas
(4,453 posts)He's narcissistic and he's weak.
mahina
(17,715 posts)lpbk2713
(42,769 posts)Duuuh
usonian
(9,916 posts)Probatim
(2,547 posts)Pretty aggressive/powerful posture for a public setting. Potty probably didn't like that at all.
usonian
(9,916 posts)Obama:
Obama greeted Putin with that patented death stare when they met multiple times.
Bush:
"Well, what happened was when I looked into his eyes and saw a soul, Russia was broke, I mean short-term broke. And the price of oil goes up, and Putin changed.
Bush sees only oil.
Biden:
"I said, Mr. Prime Minister, Im looking into your eyes, and I dont think you have a soul, Biden told the New Yorker at the time. He looked back at me, and he smiled, and he said, We understand one another.'"
TFG/WTF:
Apr. 14, 2022
I knew Putin very well. Almost as well as I know you, Sean, Trump told his close confidante, Fox News host Sean Hannity, as the network aired graphic images of dead bodies and the damage left by Russian troops in Ukraine.
Tell me he never dropped acid.
CrispyQ
(36,540 posts)Trump's a reactionary. That's why he says one thing one minute & another thing the next. He just reacts. And he does it because he's never been held accountable for what he says or does, in his life. It must have pained all world leaders to work with someone as ignorant and arrogant as Trump.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)He's a creature that lives in the current moment.