Condoleezza Rice, the former U.S. Secretary of State, called Russian President Vladimir Putin out over his “ever-deepening, delusional rendering of history.”
“He seems erratic,” Rice told Fox News. “There is an ever-deepening, delusional rendering of history, it was always a kind of victimology of what had happened to them, but now it goes back to blaming Lenin for the foundation of Kyiv in Ukraine. So he’s descending into something that I personally haven’t seen before.”
In a televised speech, he framed the attack as an act of self-defense, labeling the eastward expansion of NATO and as a mechanism for protecting Ukrainians from “Nazification” and a “genocide.”
Early Friday morning, Russian forces attacked Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. The troops now have control of the facility.
In a 90-minute call, Putin told French President Emmanuel Macron that Moscow “intends to continue the uncompromising fight against militants of nationalist armed groups.”
However, Rice believes that Russia may have banked on his assault on Ukraine being an “easy win.”
“We’ll see what terms the Russians offer, and I’m sure that it’s a good thing that they’re going to talk. But if anything, what this may show is that Vladimir Putin expected an easy win here,” she said. “He thought he would waltz into the capital, into Kyiv. In his own delusional rendering of history, Ukrainians and Russians are the same, and he would overthrow this government and might even be welcomed as a liberator. And of course, the reality has been something quite different.”
Karen Hunter discussed Rice’s take on “The Karen Hunter Show” earlier this week.
