Posted on 07/06/2020 6:28:57 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) on Wednesday blamed Russias annexation of Crimea on Republicans, though the invasion took place on President Barack Obama's watch.
Pelosi slammed President Donald Trump and Republicans for their alleged inability to face Russian aggressionand tied them to President Barack Obamas appeasement of Moscow.
"You just described, not only for the president, but the Republicans in Congress, dereliction of duty," Pelosi told MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace. "Undermining our own elections, undermining our commitment to NATO, giving away the store, the base, in Syria. The list goes on and on. Ignoring the annexation of Crimea, the invasion of eastern Ukraine. The list goes on and on."
In 2014, the Obama administration took heat from Republicans for its failure to provide defense assistance to Ukraine when Russian president Vladimir Putin led a campaign to annex the Crimean peninsula. The Trump administration changed course on this policy, selling arms to Ukraine for its defense against Russia.
Pelosi was addressing reports that Russia may have paid bounties for U.S. servicemen killed in Afghanistan. She said the reports are evidence that Trump "lets the Russians get away with murder," but national security adviser Robert OBrien said Trump had not been briefed about the bounties because intelligence officials had not found corroboration.
"The president was not briefed, because at the time of these allegations, they were uncorroborated," OBrien said on Fox News. "And as a result, the presidents career CIA briefer decided not to brief him."
Long before Trump became president, Republicans were lambasting Obama for not providing military aid to the Ukrainians as they faced down Russia, with then-senator John McCain (R., Ariz.) calling U.S. inaction "shameful."
Pelosi voted with most of her House colleagues to affirm Ukraine's territorial integrity in March of 2014, but she did not publicly push back on the Obama administration for its inaction against Putin.
What an ultra maroon...what an embezzle.
Very good!
Actually, it was annexed 5 years before George Washington was sworn in. But hey, whatever Nancy.
Botoxian !
You can take the rest of the day off, youve just won the internet
She has access to sensimilla pot in SF
Reminds me of when President- elect Nixon sent John Kerry into Cambodia.
The Crimea was part of Russia from 1783 until 1954, and even then it was still under Soviet control. Why is this our problem? The leadership of the Crimea is completely corrupt. Let them fight their own battles.
Pelosi doesn’t give a rat’s butt about Crimea anyway. I doubt she can find it on a map, even if she is sober, which is rare.
If Soros pays a million idiots to riot on the mall in Washington for 3 months, and Trump quits, I wouldn’t join their freakin country either.
There’s your running mate, Joe! Two jumbled brains belong together.
Brain Freeze
Nanzi Legosi von Skeletrix enjoys a frozen Antoinette Bar.
Thread winner!
Before the campaign season ends, Pelosi will probably accuse Trump of having led the uprising of the Confederacy.
She thinks the Russians bombed Pearl Harbor.
The bitch be bewitched. Maleficient the Evil. Cruella on Steroids. The Ilsa Koch of Buchenwald. “We didn’t let blacks live in Baltimore’s Little Italy when I lived there. No Jews either. My father and brother made sure of that”.
Pelosi has more nuts in her head than a bunch of squirrels in a park.
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