Ex-ambassador to Russia: Putin, Xi will celebrate Trump's 'preemptive war' in Iran
Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul warned on Saturday of how U.S. strikes on Iran could influence U.S. adversaries around the world.
In an interview on MSNBC, McFaul said Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping would be glad to see the U.S. engaging in “preemptive” strikes.
“I think we’ve really got to understand our other interests in the world that might be affected by this attack today. This is a preemptive war. The world does not support preemptive wars. We learned that in 2003,” McFaul said, referring to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, which was launched based on the theory that Saddam Hussein’s regime had weapons of mass destruction and threatened America.
“Putin will be celebrating this because he did his own preemptive war in Ukraine and now it’s like, well, this is just what great powers do. Maybe Xi Jinping is going to think the same. He’s going to say, ‘Well, if they can do it here, we can do it in Taiwan,’” McFaul added.
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