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Originally Posted by finnbow
You're either slow on the uptake or deliberately mischaracterizing the first article. The first article involved the Trump administration acquiescing to Russian occupation of Crimea, not compelling Russia to give it back to Ukraine (Obama's policy).
As for the second article, all administrations have had a backchannel to Iran (via the Swiss government and their embassy in Iran) because we have no diplomatic mission (front channel) there. We do, however, have diplomatic relations and formal "front channel" communications with Russia. Moreover, when Flynn and Kushner were working on creating this back channel, they were not representing the American government (i.e., the American government was led by Obama at the time).
I often wonder if you even understand what you're typing or you're just repeating right-wing obfuscation of such issues.
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Pretty hard to "obfuscate" when you pull a quote directly from the article, albeit one buried pretty deep in the article.
As to your second point, Obama contacted Iran before taking office, while the government was lead by Bush at the time). And he had
plenty of meetings with other country's officials during the transition. So what's your point?