Liberal mag admits: Romney was right about Russia

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this will chap some asses and heads will explode, as well it should...enjoy
you people who voted for Obama AND put down Gov. Palin should be hanging your heads in shame
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5:52 PM 03/03/2014

The liberal magazine The New Republic admitted that Mitt Romney was right about Russia after the Vladimir Putin-led nation invaded the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea late last week.

“Russia…is, without question, our number one geopolitical foe. They fight every cause for the world’s worst actors…But when these—these terrible actors pursue their course in the world and we go to the United Nations looking for ways to stop them, when—when Assad, for instance, is murdering his own people, we go—we go to the United Nations, and who is it that always stands up for the world’s worst actors? It is always Russia, typically with China alongside,” Romney said in a 2012 interview during his presidential campaign.

Since the interview, Syria’s Bashar Assad used chemical weapons against his own people and China has come out “in agreement” with Russia’s invasion of Crimea.



“This all seems…exactly right,” Isaac Chotiner admitted Monday for The New Republic..

Romney’s comments on Russia were roundly mocked in 2012 by a press that did not seem to like Romney very much compared to his Democratic opponent Barack Obama, who told Romney in a debate that “the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back. Because the Cold War has been over for 20 years.”

“Governor Romney offered his judgment today that Russia is our nation’s number one geopolitical foe. This conclusion, as outdated as his ideas on the economy, energy needs, and social issues, is left over from the last century. Does Governor Romney believe that a Cold War foreign policy is the right course in the twenty-first century?,” said former Secretary of the Navy Richard Danzig in a statement distributed by the Democratic National Committee and featured on the blog of liberal anchor Rachel Maddow.

“I don’t know what decade this guy is living. It sounds like ’72, ’52 even. It’s not Stalin over there. It’s not Khrushchev. It’s not Brezhnev. It’s [Dmitry] Medvedev,” said red-faced MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews.

“If Mitt Romney has his way, the military-industrial complex will get its beloved Cold War back,” cried The Nation magazine.



But Romney was not the only media villain who knew what he was talking about.

“Yes, I could see this one from Alaska,” 2008 vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin recently wrote on Facebook. “I’m usually not one to Told-Ya-So, but I did, despite my accurate prediction being derided as ‘an extremely far-fetched scenario’ by the ‘high-brow’ Foreign Policy magazine.

“Here’s what this ‘stupid’ ‘insipid woman’ predicted back in 2008,” Palin continued, quoting her previous comments. “‘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.’”


Read more: Liberal mag admits: Romney was right about Russia | The Daily Caller
 
Bullshit. al Qaeda attacked us and Republicans let their leader go and cleared the way for them to go into Iraq. Russia isn't a threat to us the way al Qaeda is. Ukraine is 70% Russian. What they do is none of our business. And Europe gets a lot of their gas and oil from Russia. They aren't interested in Russian business.

This is why it's important to keep Republicans out of foreign policy. They don't know anything. They don't believe in becoming educated. Their solutions are war and bombs. Just a bunch of ignorant yokels with guns hoping to bully a world that can fight back.
 
I gotta give Stephen credit for this....I was just listening to MSNBC and heard them refer to The New Republic as a "conservative" mag.


Umm, no?
 
"Russian President Vladimir Putin Tuesday blamed Ukraine's opposition for the ongoing crisis in Crimea, calling it an 'unconstitutional coup' and 'armed seizure of power,' while rejecting Western threats to punish Moscow with sanctions..."

"Putin's remarks were his first public comments on the situation in Ukraine since Yanukovych fled Kiev on February 22. The Russian leader accused the West of using Yanukovych's decision in November to ditch a pact with the 28-nation European Union in favor of closer ties with Russia to encourage the months of protests that drove him from power.

"'Of course people wanted change,' Putin said of the protests in Kiev's Independence Square. "'But [people] cannot impose illegal change ...you need to use only constitutional means.'

"Putin went on to say that Ukraine's interim president, parliament speaker Oleksandr Turchynov, was 'not legitimate. From the legal perspective it is Mr. Yanukovych who is president.'

"Yanukovych fled Kiev one day after reaching an agreement with leaders of the opposition that was brokered by the foreign ministers of France, Germany, and Poland.

"Earlier this week, Yanukovych was granted protection by Russia.

"Why did they need to take unconstitutional steps and bring the country into the chaos that now reigns there?' Putin asked Tuesday, according to The Guardian."

Ukraine's PM says Russian and Ukrainian ministers have started holding talks | Fox News
 
Meds, deany.

Meds? For what? You don't need meds as long as you tell the "truth".

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Bullshit. al Qaeda attacked us and Republicans let their leader go and cleared the way for them to go into Iraq. Russia isn't a threat to us the way al Qaeda is. Ukraine is 70% Russian. What they do is none of our business. And Europe gets a lot of their gas and oil from Russia. They aren't interested in Russian business.

This is why it's important to keep Republicans out of foreign policy. They don't know anything. They don't believe in becoming educated. Their solutions are war and bombs. Just a bunch of ignorant yokels with guns hoping to bully a world that can fight back.

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See? We call that the "truth".
 
I depends on the U.S. goal. Will Russia stand by and let the U.S. meddle in their union? No Will they let the U.S dominate world politics? no

So I guess if your definition of enemy is someone who will not roll over for the U.S. then Romney would be right.
 
obama said to Romney,"don't you know the cold war was over 20 years ago? Russia is not a problem for the USA". CLUELESS!!! JUST CLUELESS ON EVERYTHING!!
 
The New Republic has been a NeoCon rag since the Iraq War, so there really isn't much to say there.

A lot of right wingers miss the Cold War the way a flabby ex-football player misses his high school days.
 
Bullshit. al Qaeda attacked us and Republicans let their leader go and cleared the way for them to go into Iraq. Russia isn't a threat to us the way al Qaeda is. Ukraine is 70% Russian. What they do is none of our business. And Europe gets a lot of their gas and oil from Russia. They aren't interested in Russian business.

This is why it's important to keep Republicans out of foreign policy. They don't know anything. They don't believe in becoming educated. Their solutions are war and bombs. Just a bunch of ignorant yokels with guns hoping to bully a world that can fight back.
Bull Shit!
 

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