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Ex-Ambassador John Bolton: US, West 'Failed to Deter Russian Invasion'
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By Charles Kim | Wednesday, 20 April 2022 08:53 PM
John Bolton, former U.N. ambassador and national security adviser, told Newsmax on Wednesday that it was a ''major failure'' that the United States and other Western nations did not act early enough to deter Russian President Vladimir Putin from invading Ukraine in February.
''We failed to deter Russia's invasion to begin with, that was a major U.S.-Western failure,'' Bolton said on ''Spicer & Co.'' ''But now not only are we not deterring Putin, but he's [also] deterring us.''
Bolton, who served under then-President Donald Trump from April 2018 to September 2019, said that the recent public test of a Russian intercontinental ballistic missile is part of Putin's plan to intimidate Western nations to prevent them from providing Ukrainians with the weapons they need to defend their country.
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