[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "It happened at some point during the Obama years. They completely reversed how they treated Russia. They went from Hillary’s reset button and Obama’s hot-mic flexibility to Putin being the #1 bad guy. The change was so stark and so sudden that there must have been an event that precipitated it, something that happened behind the scenes, it would seem."

[Yardstick]

Right! Scenes like that with Democrats sucking up to the Russians, to the point where it was almost embarrassing. Can you imagine the Dems acting like that nowadays? During the 2008 campaign Obama mocked McCain for wanting to be firm with the Russians. He zinged him with that line about the ‘80s calling and wanting their foreign policy back. Can you imagine that kind of sentiment from them now?

And it wasn’t just at the superficial level. It was big policy stuff like Obama betraying Czech and Poland by removing missile defenses in order to please the Russians. Obama doing unilateral nuclear stockpile reductions to please the Russians. Hillary helping facilitate a major sale of uranium to the Russians.

Then a few years later they’re surveilling Trump claiming he’s conspiring with our ultimate enemy the Russians. It just is very odd and has never really been explained.