This was in March of 2012 — the same year Obama chastised Mitt Romney for naming Russia as our #1 geopolitical threat:
Then, two years later, the Russian military rolls into Crimea.
Say what you want about President Trump — and Lord knows, his enemies have — but there’s far more reason to believe Barack Obama was a Russian asset. That’s weird behavior.
During the four years of Trump’s first term, Russia invaded NONE of its neighbors. Then, one year, one month, and four days into President Biden’s term, Russia invaded Ukraine, triggering the current phase of the war.
Biden was the best friend Putin ever had!
First, Ol’ Joe declared war on fossil fuels:
In just over a year, Biden buckled under pressure from domestic environmentalists to halt the Keystone XL pipeline, block new oil and gas leases and push through burdensome new, legally dubious Securities and Exchange Commission climate regulations. Biden also issued new greenhouse gas rules to expand how what is called the “social cost of carbon” is calculated.
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Mark Mazur, who left the Treasury Department in September, made a troubling admission last month: “We don’t want lower prices for fossil-fuel buyers. We prefer higher prices.”
All this was a godsend for Russia’s oil empire. European nations, including Germany, increased their dependence on cheap, reliable Russian petro.
It directly funded the Russian War Machine.
Next was the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. The deterrence capacity of the American military flew straight out the window when the Taliban ran roughshod in Kabul, making mincemeat of our allies.
It was an international disgrace.
The third and final error was sleepwalking the Ukrainians into an unwinnable war with its much-larger neighbor by dangling the gift of NATO membership. On Dec. 9, 2021, Reuters ran this story: “Biden assures Zelenskiy that NATO membership in Ukraine's hands, Kyiv says.”
It explains so much:
U.S. President Joe Biden assured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that Kyiv's bid to join the NATO military alliance was in its own hands, Zelenskiy's chief of staff said after the two leaders spoke on Thursday.
Biden and Zelenskiy had a call two days after Biden held talks, opens new tab with Russian President Vladimir Putin to try to defuse a crisis over Russian troop movements near Ukraine's borders.
Ukraine accuses Russia of massing tens of thousands of troops in preparation for a possible large scale military offensive, raising fears that a simmering conflict in Ukraine's eastern Donbass region could erupt into open war between the neighbours.
Remember, this was way back in Dec. of 2021 — when Donald Trump was out of office, so the media could tell the truth about the dispute:
Russia denies planning any attack but accuses Ukraine and the United States of destabilising behaviour, and has sought security guarantees against NATO's eastward expansion.
Ukraine rejects any such guarantees as illegitimate and has sought reassurances that no deals about its future would be decided without its involvement.
"President Biden said very clearly ... that any negotiations, any decisions that concern Ukraine, cannot be taken without Ukraine," Zelenskiy chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, told the 1+1 TV channel.
"President Biden said very clearly that the decision on Ukraine's accession to NATO is the decision of the Ukrainian people only, this is a sovereign and independent Ukrainian state," he said. "And it depends on Ukraine and NATO members." [emphasis added]
Ukraine is a minnow nation. But because of Biden’s reckless rhetoric, they were emboldened into behaving like sharks. It was the exact wrong thing to do, and today, over a million Russians and Ukrainians are war casualties.
Clinton, Obama, and Biden. The three American presidents who murdered Ukraine.
And none of ‘em are named Trump.
