Russia begins moving troops into eastern Ukraine

[Dill]

(02-28-2022, 05:59 PM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: There is a lot less American GOP party members sitting over in Europe reading Facebook/Twitter and watching foxnews. You know, the ones most likely to take the bait.

LOL Amerocentrism. Agreed.

Safe to say that the less one knows about the history of Ukraine-Russia relations, the more susceptible one is to arguments that Putin invaded BECAUSE of Obama or Biden, or DIDN'T invade because of Trump.

For people living in Eastern Europe, the immediate material economic and political causes driving Ukrainian elections, economic and foreign policy, etc. are sufficient causes for Putin's behavior since 2004. E.g., in 2014, people in the region would have been looking to the ouster of Yanukovych in favor of an EU oriented gov., refusal of the new government to renew naval base leases to Russia, proposals to demote Russian language from its status as "official" along with Ukrainian, and refusal of ethnic Russians to recognize the new president to explain the Crimean/Donbas invasions, not Obama's re-election. 

Last night Hannity was placing responsibility for the invasion directly on the back of Joe Biden, and the supposed Dem caution in re-arming the Ukraine under Obama and Biden.  That's going to be the mantra going forward--Trump armed them, Biden/Obama did not, and so Putin saw his opportunity in their "weakness." He has dropped the "3-dimensional chess" claim though, or at least has stopped making it.

Tucker, who a few days ago was asking "why are we supposed to hate Putin?" now seems to have figured that out and is condemning him--along with those Democrats who were accusing Repubs of aiding and comforting the enemy when Americans should all be united in condemning Putin. Commercial break, then back to condemning Biden and Dems for enabling Putin.