Originally Posted by Richard Davis
Let me point out this fact to the morons out there who make stupid comments like you.
The WAY this senile fool of a President left Afghanistan proved to Putin that he was a complete coward and stupid as well.
That's what gave Putin the incentive to invade Ukraine.
He watched an American President LEAVE Americans behind in Afghanistan as well leaving our Afghan Partners behind.
As for Crimea, he watched another weak, pathetic President named Obama draw lines in the sand, making threats to enemies not to cross those lines, and then backing down like a coward when those enemies pushed our weak, pathetic President Obama BY crossing those lines.
That is why he invaded Crimea, because he watched a weak, pathetic President Obama back down when he was challenged.
For 4 years, Trump made it clear that we were no longer going to act weak when confronted with enemies.
When Trump killed 300 Russian soldiers and mercs, Putin knew he meant business. That's why for 4 years, Putin didn't dare step out of line again because when he did the first time, American forces under Trump annihilated Russian forces.
You made excuses for Putin, kissing his ass when he invaded Crimea.
That's just how it is.
So I'll ask again, do you want to apologize for Supporting Putin back when he invaded Crimea?
"Similar arguments were employed by opponents of the U.S. troop withdrawal from Vietnam, who suggested it would result in a cascade of negative consequences for the U.S. as a global power, with allies doubting American leadership and adversaries becoming more emboldened. The talking point, however, turned out to be devoid of substance; the Soviet Union wasn't so much emboldened by the U.S. jetting out of Vietnam as it was confused about why Washington would expend so much blood and treasure on a small, peripheral country."
"We've been here with Russia before. When the Russian military captured Crimea in February 2014, commentators faulted Washington's supposed lack of leadership as much as Russia's bellicosity. Some tied Russia's military moves in Ukraine to the Obama administration's decision to not strike Syria's chemical weapons facilities the year prior. Because the U.S. didn't have the stomach to take action in Syria, it was alleged that Putin concluded the U.S. wouldn't do much if Russia invaded Ukraine."
"But this, too, was merely a supposition devoid of much evidence. When journalist Julia Ioffe interviewed Kremlin insiders years later and asked whether the U.S. declining to bomb Syria in 2013 convinced Putin to invade Ukraine, the insiders exhibited a combination of confusion and eye-rolling. The general response to the question was no, Syria had nothing to do with Ukraine. Putin didn't act in Ukraine because of any "red-lines" that were breached in Syria, but rather because the pro-Russian government in Kyiv was overthrown by thousands of protesters who wanted to bring Ukraine closer into the Western orbit."
"Those tying Afghanistan and Ukraine today are making the same mistake as those who attempted to link Syria to Ukraine eight years ago, connecting two totally different circumstances, with an entirely different set of characteristics, players, interests and facts on the ground."
https://www.newsweek.com/afghanistan-has-nothing-do-russia-ukraine-opinion-1673195
