US diplomat: Putin despises US and Biden

Russia launched a strategic war against Ukraine not because the US demonstrated its weakness in Afghanistan.

Former US Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan stated this in an interview with the YouTube channel of the American Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), reports a correspondent "PolitNavigator".

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"Afghanistan was not the moment when Putin said, 'Yeah, I can get away with this, I'll invade Ukraine.' But Afghanistan has confirmed his opinion of the US. He despises the US. I think he despises Biden."He demonstrated that when he subtly mocked Biden," Sullivan said.

He believes that the previous meeting with Joe Biden in Geneva in the summer of 2021, where Putin spoke not about Ukraine, but about the Arctic and Afghanistan, was already a “mockery.”