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Former NATO Ambassador Kay Bailey Hutchison says U.S. could have better prepared for Russia's
Former NATO Ambassador Kay Bailey Hutchison says U.S. could have better prepared for Russia’s invasion of Ukraineby Jason Beeferman, Texas Tribune
Kay Bailey Hutchison, former U.S. ambassador to NATO, said Wednesday the Biden administration should have acted sooner to prevent or prepare for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Hutchison, who is also a Republican former U.S. senator from Texas, said the U.S. didn’t fully recognize Russian President Vladimir Putin’s wish to “recreate the Soviet Union.”
“I did not think in 2022 we would see the horrific devastation of a country that is a good, honest elected democracy,” Hutchison said during a Texas Tribune event in Austin.
Hutchison said the U.S. should have provided Ukrainians with more weapons and support amid clear indications of war. She also called Putin “a madman.”
Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2022/03/31/Kay-Bailey-Hutchison-NATO-Ukraine/
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of war.'
'Thanks,' 'Senator.' 
... where has she been, in a coma? Biden has been way out in front on this issue... maybe she's thinking of how Crooked Donald prepared NATO and Putin?
You know, for being part of an administration that tried to extort the country's president using the very aid she is talking about? 