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Says she made an "accurate prediction" that if Barack Obama were elected it would encourage Russia to invade Ukraine.
A prediction? And the connection between Georgia and Ukraine.
It is clear Palin suggested Russia might invade Ukraine. But did she predict it? And did it happen because of Obama’s reaction to Russia’s incursion into another former Soviet republic, Georgia, in 2008? Back then Obama wasn't president, George W. Bush was.
"Palin did not predict anything; she laid out a possibility," said Mark Beissinger, director of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies at Princeton University.
"Her exact words are not exactly a prediction, but a comment that suggests it raised the probability that Putin would act against Ukraine in the future," said Mark Brawley, professor of international relations, McGill University.
Michael O’Hanlon, a senior fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, a Washington academic center, had similar reservations. But he doesn’t quibble that she pointed to Ukraine as a geopolitical flash point.
"She did raise the scenario," O’Hanlon said. "So I'd give her half credit."
Trickier, our experts said, was Palin’s 2008 words linking Obama’s "indecision" about Georgia and forthcoming aggression in Ukraine.
It’s a point where a definitive answer is not possible.
More: Palin: I predicted Obama's win would trigger a Russian invasion into Ukraine - PunditFact
She knows more than your pimp in the WH.Says she made an "accurate prediction" that if Barack Obama were elected it would encourage Russia to invade Ukraine.
A prediction? And the connection between Georgia and Ukraine.
It is clear Palin suggested Russia might invade Ukraine. But did she predict it? And did it happen because of Obama’s reaction to Russia’s incursion into another former Soviet republic, Georgia, in 2008? Back then Obama wasn't president, George W. Bush was.
"Palin did not predict anything; she laid out a possibility," said Mark Beissinger, director of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies at Princeton University.
"Her exact words are not exactly a prediction, but a comment that suggests it raised the probability that Putin would act against Ukraine in the future," said Mark Brawley, professor of international relations, McGill University.
Michael O’Hanlon, a senior fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, a Washington academic center, had similar reservations. But he doesn’t quibble that she pointed to Ukraine as a geopolitical flash point.
"She did raise the scenario," O’Hanlon said. "So I'd give her half credit."
Trickier, our experts said, was Palin’s 2008 words linking Obama’s "indecision" about Georgia and forthcoming aggression in Ukraine.
It’s a point where a definitive answer is not possible.
She knows more than your pimp in the WH.Says she made an "accurate prediction" that if Barack Obama were elected it would encourage Russia to invade Ukraine.
A prediction? And the connection between Georgia and Ukraine.
It is clear Palin suggested Russia might invade Ukraine. But did she predict it? And did it happen because of Obama’s reaction to Russia’s incursion into another former Soviet republic, Georgia, in 2008? Back then Obama wasn't president, George W. Bush was.
"Palin did not predict anything; she laid out a possibility," said Mark Beissinger, director of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies at Princeton University.
"Her exact words are not exactly a prediction, but a comment that suggests it raised the probability that Putin would act against Ukraine in the future," said Mark Brawley, professor of international relations, McGill University.
Michael O’Hanlon, a senior fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, a Washington academic center, had similar reservations. But he doesn’t quibble that she pointed to Ukraine as a geopolitical flash point.
"She did raise the scenario," O’Hanlon said. "So I'd give her half credit."
Trickier, our experts said, was Palin’s 2008 words linking Obama’s "indecision" about Georgia and forthcoming aggression in Ukraine.
It’s a point where a definitive answer is not possible.
Palin made lots of wacky claims, so it was almost inevitable that she would get one partially right.
Says she made an "accurate prediction" that if Barack Obama were elected it would encourage Russia to invade Ukraine.
A prediction? And the connection between Georgia and Ukraine.
It is clear Palin suggested Russia might invade Ukraine. But did she predict it? And did it happen because of Obama’s reaction to Russia’s incursion into another former Soviet republic, Georgia, in 2008? Back then Obama wasn't president, George W. Bush was.
"Palin did not predict anything; she laid out a possibility," said Mark Beissinger, director of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies at Princeton University.
"Her exact words are not exactly a prediction, but a comment that suggests it raised the probability that Putin would act against Ukraine in the future," said Mark Brawley, professor of international relations, McGill University.
Michael O’Hanlon, a senior fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, a Washington academic center, had similar reservations. But he doesn’t quibble that she pointed to Ukraine as a geopolitical flash point.
"She did raise the scenario," O’Hanlon said. "So I'd give her half credit."
(Reuters) - Ukraine's refusal to sign a trade pact drawing it into Europe's orbit marked a victory for Vladimir Putin, winning him time to lure Kiev into a project for a trade and political bloc stretching from the frontiers of China to the edge of the EU.
The Russian president sees his "Eurasian Union", in which Ukraine would play a central role, as a future rival to China, the United States and the European Union. Some say he sees it as the president's personal political legacy - a strong force emerging from the ashes of the old Soviet Union.
"The Eurasian Union is a very important project for Putin. Without Ukraine, he will lose all enthusiasm for it," said Gleb Pavlovsky, a former Kremlin spin doctor who has also worked in Ukraine. "Without Ukraine, Putin's project is impossible."
More: Ukraine holds key to Putin's dream of a new union - Reuters
How would Sarah Palin have had any grasp of this in 2008?
Who gives a damn what she predicts? She's hot! I want her! I want her bad! (Note to our leftie posters: it's a heterosexual thing, you wouldn't understand).
Says she made an "accurate prediction" that if Barack Obama were elected it would encourage Russia to invade Ukraine.
A prediction? And the connection between Georgia and Ukraine.
It is clear Palin suggested Russia might invade Ukraine. But did she predict it? And did it happen because of Obama’s reaction to Russia’s incursion into another former Soviet republic, Georgia, in 2008? Back then Obama wasn't president, George W. Bush was.
"Palin did not predict anything; she laid out a possibility," said Mark Beissinger, director of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies at Princeton University.
"Her exact words are not exactly a prediction, but a comment that suggests it raised the probability that Putin would act against Ukraine in the future," said Mark Brawley, professor of international relations, McGill University.
Michael O’Hanlon, a senior fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, a Washington academic center, had similar reservations. But he doesn’t quibble that she pointed to Ukraine as a geopolitical flash point.
"She did raise the scenario," O’Hanlon said. "So I'd give her half credit."
Trickier, our experts said, was Palin’s 2008 words linking Obama’s "indecision" about Georgia and forthcoming aggression in Ukraine.
It’s a point where a definitive answer is not possible.
More: Palin: I predicted Obama's win would trigger a Russian invasion into Ukraine - PunditFact
Palin made lots of wacky claims, so it was almost inevitable that she would get one partially right.
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What an assclown the Community Organizer and his loopy leftist buttmunchers are..
Putin was signaling Palin by semaphore when she looked at Russia from her house...letting her know his plans...
