US President Joe Biden said that Barack Obama is the one who should be held responsible for Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine in 2014, the annexation of Crimea, and the war in Donbas, according to Washington Post editor Bob Woodward. The author claims that Biden made the statement at the end of 2023 in a conversation with his close friend, mentioning Obama’s policy towards Ukraine.
“Barack never took Putin seriously. That’s why we found ourselves in such a situation. It was impossible to allow Putin to enter there in 2014, but the US did nothing,” the journalist quoted the US president as saying.
In turn, former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that the NATO allies could have done more to arm Ukraine in 2014, and this could have prevented a full-scale Russian invasion in 2022. He added that he regrets the Alliance’s insufficient response to Russian aggression ten years ago.