Haley says ‘Western weakness’ pushed Russia to invade Ukraine, warns of looming Chinese threat
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Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley on Wednesday will say that “Western weakness” pushed Russia to invade Ukraine, warning of a looming threat from China.
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In the address, she will stress that the blame for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine "rests squarely on [Russian President Vladimir] Putin" but adds that "the West bears responsibility for a total failure of deterrence" that she says was years in the making.
"It was not NATO expansion or Western warmongering that pushed Russia to invade. It was Western weakness that convinced Putin he could get away with attempting to swallow Ukraine. He saw America as too internally divided and distracted, and Europe as too bureaucratic and soft to stop him," she will say. "And sadly, I have to say he wasn’t wrong."