Most of Pres. Trump’s news conference today focused on his efforts to get NATO members to increase their defense spending.
So this important kernel might not have received sufficient attention: Trump squarely—and fairly—points out that Russian encroachment on Crimea happened on Obama’s watch.
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How would he have stopped it?
So Trump would have enslaved the people in Crimea against their will?
Comeon, Don...don’t we get enough bullshit already from the swamp?
It’s not ours to allow or prevent. Getting involved in that would have been foolish.
Crimea has been Russian since the days of Catherine the Great. Russia has fought at least two wars over the Crimea. The Crimea is not a hill to die on.
There simply is no chance that Russia would have allowed Sevastopol to become a NATO navy base because of a uke coup.
I don’t have a strong opinion on this matter, but am impressed by the level of knowledge of several of the posters on the thread.
The world knew Obama was a hologram and a mere TV political phenomenon
Why did China choose when it did to grab every island in the South China Sea and turn them into military bases?
I am NOT totally convinced the U.S. under any other president at the time was going to go to war over Crimea.
On the other hand, what was and was not done, even in any diplomatic or foreign policy sense by the Obama administration at the time, was in my view related to what I considered Obama’s conviction to surrender U.S. leadership on many issues, to follow and not lead. Obama is a Marxist and embedded with a 1960s U.S. Marxist view that U.S. leading is just U.S. bullying.