{"id":1324114,"date":"2022-02-21T15:55:13","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T20:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1324114"},"modified":"2022-02-21T21:07:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T02:07:37","slug":"theyre-sitting-ducks-for-putin-jesse-watters-blames-bill-clinton-for-setting-ukraine-up-to-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/theyre-sitting-ducks-for-putin-jesse-watters-blames-bill-clinton-for-setting-ukraine-up-to-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They\u2019re Sitting Ducks For Putin\u2019: Jesse Watters Blames Bill Clinton For Setting Ukraine Up To Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftheyre-sitting-ducks-for-putin-jesse-watters-blames-bill-clinton-for-setting-ukraine-up-to-fall%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1324114&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-873840196-1.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Fox News host Jesse Watters claimed Monday that former President Bill Clinton had effectively set Ukraine up as a \u201csitting duck\u201d when he signed the 1994 agreement under which Ukraine gave up a sizable nuclear arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Moscow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/02\/21\/1082124528\/ukraine-russia-putin-invasion\">left thousands of nuclear arms behind<\/a> in Ukraine. Three years later, Ukraine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/jesse-watters-bill-clinton-russia-ukraine-tensions\">signed the Budapest Memorandum<\/a> \u2014 an agreement stating that they would fully denuclearize in exchange for a guarantee that NATO and Russia would see to their security.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton, at the time, called the arrangement \u201ca hopeful and historic breakthrough that enhances the security of all three participants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Watters argued that if Ukraine had retained ownership of those weapons \u2014 well over 100 Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) and more than 1000 warheads \u2014 Russian President Vladimir Putin might have thought more carefully about <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-putin-orders-troops-into-ukraine-separatist-regions-on-peacekeeping-mission\/\">sending troops<\/a> across the border.<\/p>\n<p>He began with the impact that a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-russia-recognizes-independence-of-breakaway-regions-in-ukraine\/\">Russian invasion of Ukraine<\/a> could have on the United States, noting that President Joe Biden had even said recently that the situation in Ukraine was likely to result in Americans paying higher prices for energy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGas will be $4 a gallon. It\u2019s probably going to $100 a barrel within the next couple weeks if this thing goes through,\u201d Watters said, predicting that the stock market would \u201ctake a huge hit\u201d and inflation was only going to get worse. \u201cHave we been prepared as a country to stomach this? No.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watters went on to call on President Biden to offer an explanation to the American people before things got worse. \u201cBecause right now the American people are not ready for this. Oil\u2019s going to go up. Inflation will get worse. And the Democrats and the media are going to blame Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHow did we get here? Bill Clinton forced the Ukrainians in the early \u201990s to give their nukes back to Russia. If he had just let the Ukrainians keep the nukes, Russia wouldn\u2019t have gone in. You don\u2019t invade a nuclear power,\u201d Watters continued. \u201cHe forced the nukes out there, back to Russia and now they\u2019re sitting ducks for Putin. So, I expect a formal apology by Bubba.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Watters argued that the rest of Europe was in trouble as well, mainly due to recent moves toward more green energy.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThey went green here, and they reduced nuclear. They reduced coal. They reduced exploring for natural gas domestically and they\u2019re now just sucking at the teat of Vladimir Putin\u2019s pipeline. So they\u2019re over a barrel, they\u2019re going to get squeezed, there\u2019s nothing they can do about it because they\u2019re Putin\u2019s biggest customer. So that\u2019s also a problem,\u201d Watters added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Watters concluded that what was ultimately coming was a showdown between NATO and Russia, one that he argued had been brewing in one way or another since the Soviet Union fell.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSince the fall of the Soviet Union, NATO has aggressively pushed NATO expansion into these former Soviet territories,\u201d Watters said, claiming that Russia viewed the expansion of NATO as a humiliation and a direct threat and was pushing back against that. \u201cThey\u2019ve been on a collision course ever since the Soviet Union crumbled. Here we are today. The American consumer is gonna get destroyed by this and we don\u2019t know why.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire\u2019s first original film, Shut In, has made its cinematic debut, being met with rave reviews. The Daily Wire is building an alternative to the leftist entertainment industry, one gripping movie at a time. 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