Posted on 07/06/2020 6:28:57 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) on Wednesday blamed Russias annexation of Crimea on Republicans, though the invasion took place on President Barack Obama's watch.
Pelosi slammed President Donald Trump and Republicans for their alleged inability to face Russian aggressionand tied them to President Barack Obamas appeasement of Moscow.
"You just described, not only for the president, but the Republicans in Congress, dereliction of duty," Pelosi told MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace. "Undermining our own elections, undermining our commitment to NATO, giving away the store, the base, in Syria. The list goes on and on. Ignoring the annexation of Crimea, the invasion of eastern Ukraine. The list goes on and on."
In 2014, the Obama administration took heat from Republicans for its failure to provide defense assistance to Ukraine when Russian president Vladimir Putin led a campaign to annex the Crimean peninsula. The Trump administration changed course on this policy, selling arms to Ukraine for its defense against Russia.
Pelosi was addressing reports that Russia may have paid bounties for U.S. servicemen killed in Afghanistan. She said the reports are evidence that Trump "lets the Russians get away with murder," but national security adviser Robert OBrien said Trump had not been briefed about the bounties because intelligence officials had not found corroboration.
"The president was not briefed, because at the time of these allegations, they were uncorroborated," OBrien said on Fox News. "And as a result, the presidents career CIA briefer decided not to brief him."
Long before Trump became president, Republicans were lambasting Obama for not providing military aid to the Ukrainians as they faced down Russia, with then-senator John McCain (R., Ariz.) calling U.S. inaction "shameful."
Pelosi voted with most of her House colleagues to affirm Ukraine's territorial integrity in March of 2014, but she did not publicly push back on the Obama administration for its inaction against Putin.
She’s losing it as bad as Senile Joe.
The GOP is responsible for nominating McCain and Romney. She may have a point.
It’s hard to defend yourself when all you can do is throw Obama blankets at the enemy...
She’s such a bimbo.
It’s the godless, vile, demonic Botoxian.
Believe NOTHING that it says......it’s from the Pit.
Pelosi was a insane democrat before it was cool to be an insane democrat.
Oh Crimea river, Nancy...
The world still doesn’t know about her and your post did not do anything to remedy the situation! :) O.K., so, who is she?
Soros started that war. The Russians in East Ukraine hold Crimea. Was never going to go any other way.
Victoria Nuland was Soros’ handler for that from her perch at the State Department.
She knows she won’t be fact checked so its another albatross to hang on Trump, by the end of the week all the nets will be reporting this. At this point the dims know they can get away with anything!
She was appointed prosecutor in Crimea.
It’s the same playbook they are trying to run here.
The US annexed Ohio after Russia annexed Crimea. Crimea is more Russian than Texas is American.
The funny part is the Democrats and Rinos that want to tell those people they’re NOT Russian. Lol
Gonna d luck with that, they’ll feet your sack.
That's a tough one to answer.
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