elections, support violent groups among europe, all of these things. he has been at war in georgia ukraine, moldova, and other places. frankly, during that time, we did not do enough to prepare. it was not enough to support russian oil, to support allies like ukraine, so that we could be prepared to deal with russia. and, we never pushback defectively against lottery putin. we saw a pattern that could get away within, she saw weakness in the west, problems with us getting out of afghanistan, he saw us protect ourselves and our own cities. he thought that this was the time to take advantage of, if you follow the pattern of us not pushing back. so, there is a lot of things we could ve done better, and probably should have done better. hopefully, we will all learn from this, so that we will stay tight, all of our allies stay, tight-knit or stays tight, right after this. it was in order, and moving it on nuclear.
of it, as little get dragged all of this way, it uses she re-goals quickly. john, take us back a month, six months, a year ago. obviously, putin started the war, it is not rational. is there anything that would have served nato s interests, and ukraine s interest, that we could have done to prevent this? there is a lot of things. you can go back a lot further than just a year. essentially, vladimir putin has been at war with the west since 2008. he announced that. he s been involved in this game of subversion, sabotage, deception, and in disinformation against us. he s trying to influence elections, support violent groups among europe, all of these things. he has been at war in georgia ukraine, moldova, and other places. frankly, during that time, we did not do enough to prepare. it was not enough to support russian oil, to support allies like ukraine, so that we could be prepared to deal with russia. and, we never pushback defectively against lottery putin. we saw a pattern that c