Pak Sahafat – Former American President Bill Clinton claimed that in 2011, when he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Davos, Switzerland, he realized that Russia’s attack on Ukraine would happen “sooner or later”.
According to Pak Sahafat News Agency, Bill Clinton shared this memory during a program in New York in the presence of his wife Hillary, the former US Secretary of State and former presidential candidate.
During that meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Bill Clinton said, Putin rejected an agreement brokered by the United States to respect Ukrainian territory in exchange for the destruction of Kiev’s Soviet-era nuclear arsenal.
The former US president added: Vladimir Putin told me in 2011 – three years before the seizure of Crimea – that he did not agree with the agreement I reached with Boris Yeltsin.
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Bill Clinton continued: Putin said that I do not agree with this agreement, I do not support it and I am not bound by it. From that day I knew that (Russia’s attack on Ukraine) would happen sooner or later.
Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary Clinton called on the West to step up its support for Ukraine, saying that if enough arms and ammunition were given to Kiev, it could win the war with Russia.
They warned that Ukraine’s defeat would embolden not only Putin but also Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also argued that Russia’s military defeats in Ukraine and the West’s decisive response to this country’s attack have prevented the Chinese president from trying to reclaim Taiwan.