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In 2012, during a Presidential campaign debate between Obama and Romney, Romney characterized Russia as the West's "without question...number one geopolitical foe."
O'Bama's smarmy, a-hole, ProGlib clown (like he posts on this message board, right?) response was:
"The 1980's are calling to ask for their foreign policy back."
Russia, listening closely, invaded Crimea in 2014. Aside from desultory and completely ineffective sanctions, Obama did: nothing. He believed Russia had a valid claim to Crimea based on a large Russian speaking population.
Then in 2021, Biden hightailed it out of Afghanistan, in the middle of night, with no advance warning to our allies, tail between his legs.
Russia was watching closely, seeing a weak, feckless, and obviously senile old man at the helm of the Free world.
Then in January 2022, Biden gave a speech in which he predicted "Russia will move in" to Ukraine, and then said NATO would "fight over what to do" when (not if) that occurred, publicly acknowledging NATO disunity and Biden lack of commitment to doing anything at all (like his predecessor Obama).
Russia was, again, listening intently. And they heard Biden's invitation to invade.
Biden's public acknowledgment of NATO's fractured disunity, chaos, and in-fighting under his leadership, was shocking and alarming and "left Ukrainian officials aghast", according to CNN's reporting at the time.
One official told CNN's Matthew Chance that he was "shocked that U.S. President Biden would distinguish between incursion and invasion and suggest that a minor incursion would not trigger sanctions.
"This gives the the green light to Putin to enter Ukraine at his pleasure, the official added, claiming he'd never heard any nuance like this from the U.S. administration before. "Kyiv is stunned."
(I remember that speech and had exactly the same reaction. Shocking, and revolting.)
Having been given the green light by Biden, Russia launched its full scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Putin sure knew he had been given the green light by this weak, feckless, senile, clown of a President--known world wide and including to Obama as a total f*ck up.
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You ProGlib clownish charlatans (just like your heroes Obama and Biden) trying to re-write history to pin these invasions or any of their consequences on Trump are simply disgusting.
You are fools.
