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.
Mod Edit: You can't post the entire article. Shortened quote to an excerpt.
- Copyright. Link Each "Copy & Paste" to It's Source. Only paste a small to medium section of the material.
It's completely laughable that so many cons would commend a moron who thinks Alaska's proximity to Russia gives her foreign policy experience. Any idiot could have made that comment about Russia and Ukraine. That's what makes her base so simple minded. It continues to astound me that cons on this board and elsewhere admire her. It really says a lot.
This all from a schmuck who brags about voting for Obama twice.
I have asked this of you patronizing racists before. Tell us the reasons you thought Obama was qualified to be president. Other than him being black or a democrat. List all of the accomplishments.
We already know you fell for the democrats who deliberately sank the economy in 2008 when they ignored all of Bush's 17 warnings about the real estate bubble.
Of course you morons fell for the political power play, and you still think to this moment the democrats had nothing to do with the collapse of the economy, even though the democrats had majority power starting in 2007. The fact that our economy thrived under Republican control from 1994 till 2006 is lost on you brainwashed morons.
Now, we read more bullshit from an ignorant sacksucker like you. Now, tell us why you thought Obama was so qualified. BTW, Palin accomplished a lot more than Obama. Want to compare. You unreal stupid pile of shit.