Ukraine was a whole country and relatively peacefull until then. Look at it now.
The 2014 coup was the start of all this horror.
The invasion of Crimea & Maidan Revolution happened in 2014 during Obama. The Afghanistan catastrophe & subsequent invasion of eastern Ukraine under Biden.
Those are the only two administration critics of whats happening to Ukraine should be talking about.
Trump publicly confirmed the Obama State Dept was behind the Maidan uprising in Ukraine [which has led to all of this mess].
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q2Ta5gCw1xA&feature=share
Obama/Biden/Nuland were against Ukrainian sovereignty in 2014 before they were for it in Feb. 2022.
Russia trashed the START1 treaty, the Lisbon Protocol and the Budapest Memorandum, when they invaded in 2014.
Obozo did nothing.
I think Maher’s epiphany is based on his realization that his options were limited being an echo chamber for the left. All of a sudden he’s thinking.
The only commodity Russia has is oil and every time the $100 per barrel threshold was crossed Russia attacked. Oil has to drop below $60 for an extended period of time to get Putin to pull back because he can’t afford to fight. Of course Biden isn’t going to allow oil to get that cheap since it would hurt his “green” agenda.
Everything We Have Been Told About the War in Ukraine is a Lie
https://simonateba.substack.com/p/everything-we-have-been-told-about
Re: Afghanistan, people have it exactly 180 degrees backwards. Biden (well, he doesn’t decide anything) left in chaos because the Pentagon expected a war in Ukraine at any time. They didn’t want US soldiers trapped in Afghanistan, in what everyone had recognized years ago was a useless venture.
Remember their fake claims that Putin was giving the Taliban “bounties” on US soldiers, and that Trump allowed it? It was pure projection - they feared it, once war with Russia and China was confirmed.
Also when Russia attacked Georgia in 2008 and W Bush kind of did nothing. And Putin/Bush had that awkward meeting at the Olympics around then
That’s when we should have known all this was coming
Both Obama and Biden, whose policy was being orchestrated by Victoria Nuland, bullied the Russians, fomenting an illegal coup in 2014 and installing a government hostile to both Russia and ethnic Russians in Ukraine.
Yeah, trying to cut off Russia's naval base in Crimea, which its had since 1783, was something that Russians weren't going to tolerate.
Ethnic Russians in Ukraine weren't going to tolerate being persecuted and killed by Ukrainian nationalists hated them.
And, when we armed Ukraine with lethal weapons, trained and funded the Ukrainian army, including neo-Nazis, and teased NATO membership for Ukraine, Russia wasn't going to tolerate that, either. We wouldn't tolerate China or Russia doing something similar in Mexico.
Ukraine was a whole country and relatively peacefull until then. Look at it now.
The USA became the ne Evil Empire at the end of the Cold War when the Warsaw Pact dissolved and NATO did not. And defense spending increased.
And according to Osama bin Laden, the reason the AQ Council decided to go ahead with the 911 attacks on the US was Clinton’s retreat, tail between his legs, from Somalia.
Maher is full of it again Russia’s invasion is all Biden’s he owns it the sob stupid didn’t know how or when to act to prevent it.
If he wasn’t president Ukraine would still be at peace Putin picked Biden’s pockets clean Biden is pure chump he abuses the privilege of using stupidity.