Posted on 03/11/2025 5:50:10 PM PDT by MtnClimber
We hear a lot of talk about how Trump has “upset norms,” and “abandoned our allies” to “side with a dictator,” but so far as I can tell, while Trump is “siding” with Putin, nobody has ever accused him of “wooing” Putin. “Wooing” isn’t even my word. It’s the Washington Post’s and it’s not about Trump. It’s about Obama. In May 2012, having watched Obama debase himself for the better part of four years, the Post had had enough and called it “wooing.” Trump’s been accused of pretty much everything as it relates to Putin, but never “wooing.”
In fact, a very good argument could be made that Obama’s 2008-2012 first term “wooing” softened the ground for Putin’s geopolitical adventurism ever since.
When one reviews Obama’s table-setting rhetorical blunders and truly shocking betrayals of allies, stripped of the whipped cream of the legacy media, it makes it painfully easy to see who was, in reality, “aligned with Putin” and was, in fact, his “puppet.”
It starts a month before the 2008 general election. In the final, October presidential debate, Obama makes his intentions clear: ‘We simply cannot return to a “cold war posture“ with Russia.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Communism.
PING
Submission Accomplished.
This is what happens when Americans elect a beta male/democrat for president.
Obama was not a puppet of Putin. Exhibit A: Victoria Nuland.
Interesting background. Thank you.
Looking at that silly pic-——obama always puts on that same “ghetto face”
when he’s way out of his depth, hoping being black will save him from criticism.
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