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Originally Posted by Ike Bana
Listen...we all know which side you're on. You're on the lying-ass racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, bigoted, sexual assault perp worshipping, pro war criminal Putin worshipping side of it. The side that has been calling Ukraine governmental leaders neo-nazis and flat out nazis, since Putin's murderous Wagner Group mercinaries invaded a sovereign nation that over thirty years ago was granted sovereign nation status...by the Russian government.
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And by the way, when Obama let Putin waltz into Crimea in 2014, it was folks like me who suggested that Obama's response to Putin was painfully slow and didn't amount to much. Unlike you, this isn't about pure politics then, and it's not about pure politics now. It wasn't for Putin, who gambled that Obama would be a spectator, and unfortunately, he was right.
If anything, Biden's response was likely based in part on what the Obama administration learned AFTER the Russians invaded Crimea. Celeste Wallender, one of Biden's Pentagon picks,
said this in 2022:
“I believe that our response in 2014 was too slow and too incremental. And it’s confirmed by the lessons that I learned, and that I believe others in the national security community learned, to better address Russia’s ongoing aggression,” said Wallander, who would oversee U.S. military security cooperation and foreign military sales.
She was absolutely spot on.