Flexibility, Obama Style

Even Victor Davis Hanson sees it.

Quoting part of Professor Hanson’s latest article, The Strangest Thing About ‘Semi-Fascist’ Trump.

“Politicized National Security”

“Did Trump blatantly use the national security apparatus of the government to enhance his own reelection bid in 2020? That is, did he do anything analogous to Obama’s gambit with Vladimir Putin in 2011? 

Was Trump ever caught on a hot mic promising a Russian president that he would try to ease Russian worries about Eastern European missile defense if only the Russians would give him space during his 2012 campaign for president against Mitt Romney?  

What we forget about the 2011 Seoul, South Korea hot-mic Obama exchange with then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was that all the conditions outlined in their hushed 2011 recap were adhered to by both parties: Obama did dismantle plans for a joint U.S.-Eastern European long-range missile defense—a system that might be now of advantage to the U.S. and its allies. Putin did stay quiet during the Obama campaign cycle. Obama did get reelected. And Putin did invade Ukraine and Crimea only after Obama was elected (or, a cynic might put it, because Obama was reelected). 

A current Trump “collusion” critic, mutatis mutandis, might have surmised that a colluding Barack Obama put the national security of the United States and its allies at risk in order to use his office to massage campaign advantages over Mitt Romney in 2012. And the ultimate result of such machinations was a loss of U.S. deterrence that in part explained Russian aggression in 2014.”

Obama and Soros even created an Anti-Corruption bureau, totally non-governmental to oversea all the funds they were laundering in Ukraine. And despite the billions to these criminals, courtesy of the American taxpayer, Putin was the big winner, he got Crimea! He also got a non-defended Eastern Europe, a consequence that should be ever more obvious now. He also got a Ukraine supplied with MREs and blankets by the Obama Administration instead of genuine defensive weapons.

Obama, Kerry, Nuland, Biden also claimed the “coup” although they may have only supplied the snipers that were told to shoot into the crowd, which they did.

This allowed Putin to claim the Budapest Memorandum was now invalid, and he had no responsibility to ensure the Ukrainian borders. Shame they didn’t keep the 1800 nuclear warheads, should be obvious now.

It is rewarding that a great historian and tremendous intellect like Professor Hanson now sees it this way.

Hopefully, in the future, writers will have the courage to discuss the conclusions of one of my earlier columns, from Mar 26.

Uyghurs

“Is this why the “viral research” was moved to China?”

“For a controlled population of humans that would allow serial passage of viral candidates?”

“I mean, we have Dr. Baric doing 10 courses of serial passage to enhance viral mutation in various lab animals? See Igor’s Newsletter, if you don’t already.”

“What researcher wouldn’t jump at the chance to do the same in a perfectly controlled human population? Well, a moral one wouldn’t, but it looks like morality has left the building along with Elvis.”

“Just asking?”