Ex-DNI Ratcliffe Says Putin 'Got Exactly What He Wanted' At Geneva SummitNewsmax, Jun 21,2021
Former director of national intelligence John Ratcliffe on Sunday said Russian President Vladimir Putin “got exactly what he wanted” even before his Geneva summit with President Joe Biden.
In an interview with Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” Ratcliffe said Putin scored a “political win” with the Biden meeting.
“Vladimir Putin got exactly what he wanted,” he said. “He had a pretty good year. I could make an argument that the first five months of the Biden administration has been have been the best of Vladimir Putin's political life.”
According to Ratcliffe, from an economic standpoint, “Putin was 3-0 when it comes to pipelines,” citing Biden’s shutdown of the Keystone XL pipeline, the cyberattack on the Colonial Pipeline and the U.S. green light to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that controls “the flow of energy into Western Europe.”
“So it had already been a great year before he ever got to Geneva,” Ratcliffe said. “But then Joe Biden gave him a political win."
“Vladimir Putin was on the world stage with equal billing with the leader of the free world, and he made no concessions… no concessions about cyberattacks, about political dissidents, he made no concession about Russian interference in Ukraine or Belarus, and that's a political win for Vladimir Putin back home that he could not possibly have dreamed about,” Ratcliffe argued.
“The United States literally got nothing out of it,” he lamented.
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