Rep. Pat Fallon: 'Look at the Pattern,' Putin Was Contained Under Trump
(Newsmax/''The Chris Salcedo Show'')
By Luca Cacciatore | Thursday, 24 February 2022 06:41 PM
Rep. Pat Fallon, R-Texas, told Newsmax on Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin took advantage of post-Soviet turmoil under former President Barack Obama and President Joe Biden, but ''didn't rattle the saber'' under former President Donald Trump because he ''projected strength.''
On ''The Chris Salcedo Show,'' Fallon implored viewers to ''look at the pattern.''
''In 2008, Putin invaded and stole two provinces from Georgia [South Ossetia and Abkhazia], and nothing really happened. In 2014, he stole the Crimea from the Ukrainians, and nothing happened. And then he had a pause — that for four years between 2017 and '21, when President Trump was in office, he didn't rattle the saber, and he didn't grab any land,'' he said.
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