Obama: Hey, I warned you that Putin "was always ruthless"

 HotAir  "One of the advantages that clairvoyants and eminences grises have is the ability to remind us of the accuracy of their forecasts. Barack Obama took advantage of that Wednesday at the University of Chicago, discussing his prescient alarms over the threat that Vladimir Putin posed to world order. It’s a couple of days old but worth watching to recall his brilliance at the time:"

"Oh, wait — sorry, that wasn’t the correct clip, was it? My bad. I seem to have had a mix-up in my Official Barack Obama Brilliance Media Catalog. That was from 2012, when Obama lectured Mitt Romney on the dangers of al-Qaeda shortly after bailing out of Iraq and allowing the AQ affiliate there to turn into ISIS and necessitating a return of our military in 2014.

"Let me look again. I think this is the one where Obama explains how tough he was on Putin:"

Much more here, but catch the conclusion below:

. . .  For our last video, let’s recall the greeting that Obama’s administration gave Putin’s regime immediately upon assuming office, nine years after Chechnya and mere months after Putin invaded Georgia. This certainly tells a tale about Obama’s recognition of Putin’s ruthless and imperial nature, huh?"