Putin's invasion of Ukraine from John McCain became viral (video)
The video was posted on Twitter. "Nothing provokes Vladimir Putin as weakness," he told the BBC in an interview with September 10, 2014, half a year after the Russian Federation annexed Crimea. According to McCain, Putin's strategy was to cut off the East of Ukraine and possibly create a land corridor between the Russian Federation and Crimea. "We do not give Ukrainians weapons when they ask for it. We do not even provide intelligence because we do not want to provoke Vladimir Putin," he said.
McCain, who died in 2018, generally criticized the position of US leadership on the conflict between Ukraine and the Russian Federation. In 2015, he stated that he was "ashamed of his country" and demanded from President Barack Obama supplying weapons to Kiev. "Demonstrating weakness, we provoke Vladimir Putin. We need to understand that Vladimir Putin's ambitions are the restoration of the old Russian Empire," McCain said.
"He wants the East of Ukraine, wants to guarantee that he will be able to keep Crimea, and if it comes off his hands, Moldova and the Baltic countries, too," McCain said. From Tuesday, January 3, when this video was published, the post has already gained more than 2 million views. Users noted the ability to anticipate a former US Presidential candidate. "John McCain burst into Putin (it was he who was hated in the Kremlin).
"Then 2014 John McCain fully predicted Putin's next steps," Maxim Borodin said. "John McCain predicted Putin's plan for 2022 in 2014," journalist and author John Svini wrote. Recall that as soon as the land is freezing, the Russian troops will be on the offensive on Kharkiv. According to General Melnyk, the commander of the Kharkiv Military District, a group of 10-20 Russian scouts already cross the border of the region.