Posted on 03/01/2025 11:40:40 AM PST by Starman417
At the tail end of the fiery Oval Office exchange pitting Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky against President Trump and Vice President Vance, Trump spent two heated minutes on a theme the media will likely bury.
“Putin went through a hell of a lot with me,” said Trump. “He went through a phony witch hunt where they used him and Russia. Russia. Russia. Russia.” What Trump did not say, but he might have, is that the constant scapegoating of Russia and Putin made America’s proxy war against Russia an easy sell.
What Trump might also have said is that before he chose to run for president and before the collusion plot was launched to stop him, the Democrats had been cozying up to Putin for years. Barack Obama began his courtship immediately after the January 2009 inauguration. In February Obama dispatched Vice President Joe Biden to security conference in Munich to signal Obama’s eagerness to undo President George W. Bush’s hard line on missile defense among other issues.
It was in Munich that Biden first said, “It is time to press the reset button and to revisit the many areas where we can and should be working together with Russia.” A month later, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with the Russian foreign minister in Geneva and presented him with a red plastic “reset” button. Unfortunately, whoever was responsible for finding the Russian word for “reset” used the Russian word for “overcharged.” Much awkwardness ensued, but the meeting otherwise went swimmingly.
Two years after proposing the reset button, Biden made an extraordinary speech at Moscow State University. There he listed the many new areas of cooperation between Russia and the United States and cited with pride the fruits of that relationship. Just two years prior, only 17 percent of Russians held a positive view of the United States, said Biden. By the time of his speech in March 2011, that figure had increased to 60 percent.
In 2010, always on the prowl for a quick buck, Bill Clinton gave a $500,000 speech, paid for by a Russian investment bank with ties to the Kremlin. On that same trip, Clinton met with senior Rosatom official Arkady Dvorkovich. The media scarcely noticed.
Rosatom was the entity that controlled all things nuclear in Russia, including the arsenal. Rosatom also built the controversial Bushehr reactor in Iran and supplied it with uranium. At the time, Rosatom was seeking the State Department’s permission to buy Uranium One, a Canadian company with vast U.S. uranium reserves.
This deal raised eyebrows even at the New York Times. As the Times reported in April 2015, too late to make a difference, the Russians took control of Uranium One in three discrete transactions from 2009 to 2013, during which time “a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation.”
For Russian President Vladimir Putin, securing Uranium One was like finding a pony under his tree on Christmas morning. As Rosatom CEO Sergei Kiriyenko told Putin in a staged interview, “Few could have imagined in the past that we would own 20 percent of U.S. reserves.”
During the 2012 presidential campaign Obama put his own stamp of approval on the felicitous state of U.S.-Russia affairs. In March of that year, Obama met with outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Seoul, South Korea. A live microphone picked up a conversation between the two men that was supposed to be private.
“On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this can be solved, but it’s important for him to give me space,” said Obama, the “him” being incoming president Putin. Obama continued, “This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.” Replied Medvedev, “I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir.”
Obama did his Russia-friendly flexing center stage during his final debate with Mitt Romney in 2012. Earlier in that year, Romney had called out Obama for his overture to Putin. “This is without question our No. 1 geopolitical foe,” said Romney. During the debate, Obama countered with a scripted zinger: “The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because the Cold War’s been over for twenty years.”
Putin served as prime minister during Obama’s first term and was elected president eight months before Obama humbled Romney on national TV. Obama had a productive relationship with Russia during those first four years and expected more of the same, especially with his newfound flexibility.
As should have been expected, the newly re-elected Putin read Obama’s flexibility for the weakness it was. Russia refused to accept international inspection of its nuclear sites, gave rogue NSA contractor Edward Snowden safe harbor, and annexed the Crimea.
In his Oval Office meeting, Zelensky recalled Obama’s fecklessness over Crimea. “During 2014 nobody stopped [Putin],” he said. “He just occupied and took. He killed people.” Obama might have reacted more forcefully, but he needed Putin’s help to secure what he considered his signature achievement, the Iran nuclear pact.
In July 2015, Obama called Putin thanking him for his help bringing the mullahs to the table. As Obama told Tom Friedman of the New York Times, “We would have not achieved this agreement had it not been for Russia’s willingness to stick with us and the other P5-Plus members in insisting on a strong deal.”
In June 2015, Donald Trump declared for the presidency. At the time, no one would have predicted that within a year Russia would emerge as a monstrously subversive country hell-bent on throwing the 2016 election to Donald Trump. No one would have predicted this scenario because it defied common sense.
Russia had a proven pawn in Obama and a friend in Hillary. It did not need an unpredictable Donald Trump. “Putin has eaten Obama’s lunch, therefore our lunch, for a long period of time,” said Trump in 2014 while slamming Obama’s failure to stand up to Putin in Crimea.
When the plotters failed to defeat Trump in the election, they conspired to sabotage his presidency.
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Great historical review, since the MSM will never go there.
1 million percent correct article.
That is a sure bet! I've read (on-line) British papers, German papers, and Swedish newspapers and blogs. So far no one has mentioned the Russia, Russia, Russia-hoax and the effect it has had on the Ukraine conflict.
What a great piece that goes to the origins, roots and heart of what we are seeing right now in Ukraine.... and once again, the fingerprints of Maobama are on it.
Jack has done some nice work in the past... this one is up there.
Best part of that picture with Hillary is the Russian guy pushing the button while giving her the finger.
That is quite the spin.
What else happened during that period of time? Oh, the CIA with USAID fomented an illegal coup in Ukraine that installed a government hostile to Moscow and the ethnic Russian population in Ukraine.
Lindsey Graham and John McCain gave speeches in favor of the coup. Victoria Nuland went to Ukraine to hand out cookies.
This despite the fact the Ukrainian constitution required the country remain political neutral.
That setoff a civil war in Ukraine with the pro-Russian part of it rebelling. The Ukrainian nationalists and neo-Nazis that assumed power were threat to Russian access to a naval base in Crimea that it had operated since before the US Constitution was written.
Thus, the reason the Russians annexed Crimea.
It was naked aggression in the Obama regime, not weakness that caused the current war in Ukraine.
First of all, the Russians have no exclusive “right” to insure, through military invasion, that neighboring countries have governments “favorable to Russia.”
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They had every right to secure their naval base in Crimea, which they have operated since before the US Constitution was written.
And, they had as much a right to intervene on behalf of the oppressed in Donetsk and Lugansk, more so in fact, that we did in Iraq, Vietnam or Korea.
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