NYT reporter suggests Putin didn't take military action under Trump
Because he was unpredictable. NYT's Peter Baker was reacting to Trump claiming Putin never would have rolled into Ukraine under his watch
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NYT's Peter Baker was reacting to Trump claiming Putin never would have rolled into Ukraine under his watch.
The New York Times' chief White House correspondent said Wednesday on MSNBC it was "a good question" of why Russian President Vladimir Putin engaged in the military operation in Ukraine under the Biden administration, and not under Trump.
New York Times reporter Peter Baker said, "[Trump] said yesterday ‘this wouldn’t have happened when I was president,’ or somehow he was too tough … It is a good question whether President Trump was volatile enough that President Putin didn’t know how he would react to, you know, something more aggressive in Ukraine."
Baker maintained that "It is a fair question to ask why he didn’t do it while Trump was in office given what close relationship the two had and a fair question to ask why [Putin] chose to do it now."
He suggested that Putin's move into Ukraine was to solidify his legacy.
Here’s something that Progressives and Baker believes. Baker went on to claim on "Deadline: White House" that Trump was already doing Moscow's bidding by "driv[ing] a wedge in NATO" by asking them to pay defense spending as well as not retaliating on Russia's 2014 invasion and annexation of the Crimean Peninsula.
So according to leftists, Trump was to respond to what happened under Obama- Biden? And asking NATO to pay for the defense of their homeland was being Pro-Russian?
Interesting.