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Some congressional Republicans have attempted to blame Joe Biden's foreign policy for enabling Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

These developments were not inevitable," congressman Andy Barr said. The Biden Administration's weak and feckless foreign policy not only failed to deter this aggression, it invited this outcome."