I've written a good bit about all those points, and you're right. Russia is still in the wrong. But that doesn't mean we have clean hands.
In Obama's case, he was wrong in two different ways on the same issue. The 2014 color revolution was a needless provocation (probably driven as much by opportunities for money laundering as anything el…
I've written a good bit about all those points, and you're right. Russia is still in the wrong. But that doesn't mean we have clean hands.
In Obama's case, he was wrong in two different ways on the same issue. The 2014 color revolution was a needless provocation (probably driven as much by opportunities for money laundering as anything else). At the same time, once Russia was provoked, we had a duty to defend Ukraine's territorial integrity. That may have been a stupid duty that we shouldn't have taken on, but we did, in the 90s, to get Ukraine to hand over its nuclear weapons to Russia.
So in typical fashion, Obama was bold until he wasn't.
This is exactly why Russia took a chunk of Ukraine in the Obama years, and then waited until the Biden years to attempt more. They'd have never challenged Trump, not in a million years.
I've written a good bit about all those points, and you're right. Russia is still in the wrong. But that doesn't mean we have clean hands.
In Obama's case, he was wrong in two different ways on the same issue. The 2014 color revolution was a needless provocation (probably driven as much by opportunities for money laundering as anything else). At the same time, once Russia was provoked, we had a duty to defend Ukraine's territorial integrity. That may have been a stupid duty that we shouldn't have taken on, but we did, in the 90s, to get Ukraine to hand over its nuclear weapons to Russia.
So in typical fashion, Obama was bold until he wasn't.
This is exactly why Russia took a chunk of Ukraine in the Obama years, and then waited until the Biden years to attempt more. They'd have never challenged Trump, not in a million years.