Posted on 08/23/2015 5:13:45 PM PDT by george76
Putin was surprised at how easy Crimea went. Obama is nothing if not consistent when it comes to undermining allies and appeasing enemies. He kept on being flexible even as Russia was invading a potential NATO member.
As Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces took over Ukraine's Crimean peninsula in early 2014, the interim Ukrainian government was debating whether or not to fight back against the "little green men" Russia had deployed. But the message from the Barack Obama administration was clear: avoid military confrontation with Moscow.
That's easier to do when you aren't being invaded by Moscow.
But nonetheless, McFaul said, the ease with which Putin was able to take Crimea likely influenced his decision to expand Russia's campaign in eastern Ukraine: "I think Putin was surprised at how easy Crimea went and therefore when somebody said let's see what else we can do, he decided to gamble.”
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To summarize
1. Obama won't arm Ukraine.
2. Despite promising non-lethal aid, he won't even provide that.
3. Putin beats Obama like a rented mule.
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Chance the gardener.
two words: “Hunter Biden”
This is what happens when a community organizer and a fringe lunatic liberal Secretary of State run things.
Why would he tell them to resist the invasion of Russia. He won’t resist the invasion if the our Southern Border by the illiterate hoards.
Chance the gardener didn’t have an evil bone in his body.
Why would Obama encouraged anyone to fight for freedom? He’s never done it before. His ideology would prevent it.
I’ve said this all along.
Did anyone seriously think he would have said something different?
Reminds me of the time Neville Chamberlain told the Czechs not to fight....
I’ve been posting about the Obama-KGB Putin collaboration for the longest. Obama’s mission is to help set the stage for Russia, and the ChiComs, to achieve their New World Order aims. Obama shares the same NWO goals with them.
Is Poland next ?
The Russkies have simulated and trained for nuclear attacks and invasions of Poland. Russian state controlled media has also implied that “revolutions” (i.e, Russian terrorists pretending to be local seperatists) could spring up in Latvia and Estonia at any time.
American Ukrainian “inteligencia” (Ukrainians for Obama) voted for Zero. Full page ads in the press.
I could not understand how those who escaped commie “paradise” could vote for commie organizer.
I guess one needs to be tenured professor.
Chance liked to watch.
The USA is being destroyed by leftists and statists at home. Sorry about that first. It seems to me pulling the Ukraine out of Russia’s orbit and poking Putin in the eye is an EU project. Let them deal with it
This is what happens when we don't destroy Liberal Media. Obama didn't do this. The Liberal Media did this. They need to be wiped out. We need to nuke them and everyone that ever worked for them.
Thanks for the post. You are right.
How far can Obama go? Isn’t there supposed to be a system of checks and balances? In this article I saw that even former ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul is criticizing Obama and he was Obama’s appointment.
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