US Senator Lindsey Graham argues that Russian President Vladimir Putin's actions have inadvertently bolstered NATO, even suggesting Putin as the 'NATO Man of the Year'. Graham believes Putin's actions have unified NATO and spurred increased defense spending. He also proposes a peace deal with Ukraine that guarantees automatic NATO membership if Russia invades again.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has done more to strengthen and unite NATO than member states, U.S. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham told the Munich Security Conference on Saturday.
"If I were nominating somebody to be the NATO Man of the Year, it'd be Putin," Graham said as he participated in a MSC panel that included NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen. "I do believe that if he understood 'you do this again, your worst nightmare of Ukraine being in NATO is a certainty' would be a deterrent," Graham, chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget, said.
Rather than pay for the minerals, the ownership agreement would be a way for Ukraine to compensate Washington for the billions of dollars in military aid that it has provided to Kyiv over the course of the war, two of the officials said,Sen. Graham backed the potential minerals deal, calling it a potential "game-changer" for Ukraine and a "nightmare" for Putin as he addressed delegates at the MSC.
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