Palin said then:
After the Russian Army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama's reaction was one of indecision and moral equivalence, the kind of response that would only encourage Russia's Putin to invade Ukraine next.In light of recent events in Ukraine and concerns that Russia is getting its troops ready to cross the border into the neighboring nation, nobody seems to be laughing at or dismissing those comments now.
For those comments, she was mocked by the high-brow Foreign Policy magazine and its editor Blake Hounshell, who now is one of the editors of Politico magazine.
◼ Russian aircraft carrying nearly 2,000 suspected troops have landed at a military air base near the regional capital of the restive Crimean peninsula, a top Ukrainian official said Friday, accusing Moscow of an "armed invasion". - Agence France Presse
◼ Ukraine crisis live: UN Security Council to hold emergency meeting on Ukraine crisis - Telegraph [UK]
◼ Ukraine crisis: Latest updates - BBC News [UK]
Ukraine´s interim President Oleksandr Turchynov accuses Russia of aggression, saying Moscow has deployed troops in Crimea and is "trying to provoke" Kiev into an "armed conflict".
◼ Putin’s Ukraine gambit - Charles Krauthammer/Washington Post
Russia does. Moscow denounces the overthrow as the illegal work of fascist bandits, refuses to recognize the new government created by parliament, withholds all economic assistance and, in a highly provocative escalation, mobilizes its military forces on the Ukrainian border.
The response? The E.U. dithers and Barack Obama slumbers. After near- total silence during the first three months of Ukraine’s struggle for freedom, Obama said on camera last week that in his view Ukraine is no “Cold War chessboard.”
Unfortunately, this is exactly what it is for Putin. He wants Ukraine back.
...What Obama doesn’t seem to understand is that American inaction creates a vacuum.
◼ CNN: Obama admin assesses Russian troops entering Ukraine as ‘uncontested arrival,’ not invasion [video] - Twitchy
Smart Power RT @SalenaZitoTrib: 2000 Russian troops land in your country, 2 airports taken over.
WH calls it an "uncontested arrival".
— Phineas Fahrquar (@irishspy) February 28, 2014Out: The word "invasion"
In: "Uncontested Arrival" #ukraine #tcot
— Matt Vespa (@mVespa1) February 28, 2014◼ HOW EMBARRASSING FOR THE MEDIA: Sarah Palin Right Again on Foreign Policy - Doug Ross
