President Joe Biden criticized Russian leader Vladimir Putin as “not much of a student of history” for underestimating the Ukrainian military’s will to fight, but a top U.S. intelligence official admitted he botched that assessment too.
Biden made the comment during a speech in Warsaw on Saturday, where he appeared to support regime change in Russia before the White House walked it back. The invasion of Ukraine came after weeks of warnings by the Biden administration that Putin was likely to invade. Biden had said in January he believed a Russian victory in Ukraine would essentially be certain. The head of the Defense Intelligence Agency admitted this month he underestimated Ukraine.
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