Former US official: NATO expansion sparked Ukraine war

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00:00I'd just like to start that Donald Trump has been posting on Truth Social today in the last few

00:07minutes, blaming Biden and Zelensky for the war in Ukraine. He also said when you start a war,

00:14you've got to know how to win. Zelensky has expressed doubt about Trump's support.

00:20Will the latest outburst add to this? Well, you just asked a lot of questions.

00:24Is this Joe Biden and Vladimir Zelensky's war? One could make an argument for that in certain

00:34respects. It's clear that the policy of the United States, particularly with the shameful withdrawal

00:42from Afghanistan, the way it was conducted, sent a sign of weakness to President Putin,

00:47which he took advantage of. Volodymyr Zelensky was very, very pro-support for the president,

00:56was very, very anti-Russian. So I think you really can't blame the war on one person or another,

01:03but it is clear that a different policy choice that goes all the way back to the whole notion

01:07of NATO expansion led to what happened March 2022 when Russia invaded across the borders.

01:14Yeah.

01:17Yeah.