Barack Obama: I Was Worried About Triggering Further Russian Invasion if I Armed and Trained Ukraine

 Obama: I Was Worried About Triggering Further Russian Invasion if I Armed and Trained Ukraine (breitbart.com)    "The former president discussed Russia and Ukraine in an interview with Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg.

Obama dismissed questions about whether he regretted not doing more to defend Ukraine, as the late Sen. John McCain urged his administration to do, when Putin was moving into eastern parts of Ukraine.

“ 'I  actually don’t because the circumstances were different,” he replied.

"Obama said arming and training Ukrainians at that time could have triggered Russia to invade further.

“ 'We were also concerned about making sure that we did not give an excuse for a further incursion, and a lot of the arguments back then had to do with arming Ukraine which in turn could have provided those kinds of excuses and you had issues of training,” he said.

"Obama provided humanitarian aid to Ukraine but resisted sending arms such as anti-tank Javelins and other weapons.". . .

From the comments to this post:

Obama was an absolute foreign policy blunder. Syria, Crimea, North Korea….the list is lengthy. They could smell what a wuss he was. They smell the same wussiness in Biden

 Obama : “Arming and training Ukrainian’s at that time could have triggered Russia further, so I sent them blankets instead.” 

2005 quote from Senator Obama: “We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently, and lawfully to become immigrants in this country.”

"Again, who was the clown who said:

"I promise 100% transparency in my administration.”.
“I promise NO NEW TAXES on a family making less than $250K a year.”.
“I will allow 5 days of public comment before I sign any bills.”.
“I will remove earmarks before I sign any bill.”.
“I will end Income Tax for seniors making less than $50K a year.”.
“I’ll put the Health Care negotiations on CSPAN so everyone can see who is at the table!”
“I’ll have no lobbyists in my administration."
"I'll close Guantanamo Bay."
"I believe marriage is between one man and one woman."
"I won't seek re-election unless unemployment falls below 5%."
"I'll unite the people of this great country."
“If you like your insurance you can keep it”
“If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor.”
And please don’t forget those “shovel ready jobs”.

 America under Obama bullied and mocked by our enemies  around the world.

Back to "Barack and I"

How can this vindictive, self-loving man think so highly of himself?

Obama's bloodless coup - American Thinker  

Joe Biden is a fairly mean girl himself.  And one covered in lies and corruption.  But Obama accomplished the impossible.  He created sympathy for Biden.

. . ." The primaries are almost upon us, and it is utterly mandatory that we select strong Republican candidates.  The candidates who have the best chance of winning in November.  It is time to accept a Republican with whom one agrees with some of the time, over a Democrats with whom one agrees none of the time.

"Obama's ugly display of contempt at the White House is uncharted territory.  Who knows what the Democrats are plotting?

"If our country doesn't drastically change course in November, it will become unrecognizable. "

 Obama: Same Old Narcissist as Always – PJ Media   "There is no one in this world that Barack Obama loves more than himself. The moment he walks into a room, everything is about him. He loves attention—he craves it.

"And when he returned to the White House on Tuesday, it’s no surprise that he couldn’t stop talking about himself in his speech.". . .

Absolutely brutal pic.twitter.com/zrMEAzKG8H

— Benny (@bennyjohnson) April 6, 2022

Proof has emerged from the White House that Biden's presidency is over - American Thinker    "Barack Obama was at the White House yesterday, making it clear, as did others at the reception held in Obama's honor, that Biden's presidency is over. Watching Obama suck the oxygen out of the room made me wonder if Obama is planning a comeback, something he can easily do.

"The ostensible reason for Obama's return to the White House was to celebrate Obamacare's twelfth anniversary (if you can celebrate our modern, cowardly, corporate-run "medical care," along with overpriced insurance that does little for people with serious health issues).  The reception in Obama's honor, though, hinted that the event's real purpose was to signal to Democrat apparatchiks that Biden is now shark chum.

"The chumming process began when Obama referred to Biden as the "vice president," adding, after a long pause, "That was a joke.' ". . .

. . ."There are three takeaways:

1. Barack Obama, whether in his walled D.C. Kalorama home or in his coastal properties in Martha's Vineyard or Hawaii, is probably the one running the White House show.

2. Obama has signaled that Biden's presidency is over, making Biden toxic.  That's the message Tucker Carlson drew, something he illustrated with clips showing Democrat media talking heads finally addressing Biden's economic failures:. . .

1. Have the Democrat establishment remove Kamala Harris from office, whether through threats or bribes.

2. Have the Democrats declare that, because world instability (Ukraine, Putin, China) puts us at unprecedented risk, only a politically seasoned person can be vice president, with Obama graciously accepting that role.

3. Oust Biden using the 25th Amendment.  And voilà!  President Obama (again).  He can even have Stacey Abrams as his veep.

. . ."The 22nd Amendment does not bar Obama from regaining the presidency this way.  It only stops him from being "elected to the office."  The three steps above avoid an election.

"Obama will then have two and a half years to lock down America's "fundamental transformation" into a fully socialized third-world country, and Biden has given him a head start when it comes to destroying institutions.  Heck, if Obama does the job right, he can be the new Putin or Erdoğan: America's president for life.

"And yes, I agree this sounds crazy, but events since 2020 show that we really are nothing more than a fancy banana republic."

Kenosha County goes red after destructive BLM riots, elects Republican for first time in decades

 BPR   "In a possible precursor of an upcoming red wave, Republican state representative Samantha Kerkman won the election on Tuesday for the office of Kenosha County, Wisconsin, executive.

"A Democrat has held the position in the swing county for at least 25 years.

"Jim Kreuser, the current executive, served in the position since 2008, but announced last May that he was retiring.

"The self-described conservative defeated Democrat court official Rebecca Matoska-Mentink by a margin of approximately 51 percent to 48 percent of the vote for the job that has a four-year term in what is described as a non-partisan contest. The party affiliations of the candidates weren’t, however, a secret.

"Kerkman, 47, thus becomes the first female executive for the county, which is located about 6o miles from Chicago and 40 miles from Milwaukee, and only the fifth person to hold that position.

" 'I think it was the experience that I bring from [the legislature in] Madison,” the taxpayer-friendly, business-friendly Kerkman told the Kenosha News. “I have been working with the county executive for years on issues that impact the county.' ”

Make a joke about transgenders? Big Tech says No Way!

 Make a joke about transgenders? Big Tech says No Way! (commdiginews.com)

Transgender people are a seriously protected class of people that are not funny.

"WASHINGTON: I am almost at the end of a 30-day timeout with Facebook for sharing the above meme, which I didn’t even make. The meme referenced International Women’s Day on March 8th. It is just as funny to me now as it was 30 days ago. So obviously, Facebook has taught me nothing.

"I still believe there are two God-assigned male and female genders at conception. And that these classifications should be respected as methods of classification for competitive sports throughout all events FOREVER by everybody.

"However, they have confirmed that Facebook, as part of Big Tech, is guilty of arbitrary and capricious censorship.". . .

This got Babylon Bee placed in Twitter Jail:  Rachel Levine Is 100% Woman And We Are Sorry For Calling Her A Man | The Babylon Bee

"We, The Babylon Bee, have decided to issue an apology. After being caught in a culture-war whirlwind of hatred and bigotry, we published an article naming Rachel Levine our "Man of the Year." Sometimes, even satirists make mistakes.". . .

. . .So we invite our readers to say it with us, loudly and proudly, and with all the strength and goodness of 1000 kindergarten teachers in Florida trying to teach 5-year-olds about sex:

"Rachel Levine is a powerful, beautiful woman.

"Whatever that is."

Reports of sexual violence involving Russian soldiers are multiplying, Ukrainian officials say.

 NY Times "The crime first came to light last week, when Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Iryna Venediktova, said in a Facebook post that a Russian soldier had killed an unarmed civilian and then repeatedly raped his wife. Days later, the White House said it was concerned about emerging reports of sexual violence in Ukraine.

"Then on Monday night, The Times of London published the woman’s chilling account. Using the pseudonym Natalya, she told a reporter she had been in her home in a village near the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, when she heard footsteps and a shot rang out. Moments later her husband lay dead outside her front door, and two Russian soldiers were at her side, one holding a gun to her head.

" 'I shot your husband because he was a Nazi,” the gunman told her, before he and the other soldier raped her, as her 4-year-old son sobbed in a boiler room next door, according to The Times. She said she was later raped a second time by the soldiers, and eventually managed to flee to western Ukraine with her son.". . .

Accounts of Sexual Violence by Russian Soldiers Showcase the Barbarity of Ukraine Invasion - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics Behind a pay wall, however.

Likely murderers of innocent civilians:

Kiev's grip on eastern Ukraine weakens as pro-Russians seize army vehicles | Ukraine | The Guardian  "For Kiev's beleaguered army it was meant to be a display of strength. Early on Wednesday a column of six armoured personnel carriers trundled through the town of Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine. Some 24 hours earlier Ukrainian soldiers had recaptured a small disused aerodrome. Their next target appeared to be Slavyansk, the neighbouring town, occupied by a shadowy Russian militia. Was victory close?

"The column didn't get far. At Kramatorsk's railway junction, next to an open-air market and a shop selling building materials, an angry crowd caught up with it. Next armed separatists dressed in military fatigues turned up too. Within minutes the Ukrainian soldiers gave up. Without a shot being fired they abandoned their vehicles. The pro-Russian gunmen grabbed them. They raised a Russian tricolour. They sat on top and went for a victory spin.

"In theory this was happening in Ukraine, under the control of a pro-western government in Kiev, and several hundred kilometres from the Russian border. In reality large chunks of the east of the country are now in open revolt. Ukraine is rapidly vanishing as a sovereign state. Its army is falling apart. What happens next is unclear. But the Kremlin can either annexe the east, as it did Crimea, again shrugging off western outrage. Or it can pull the strings of a new post-Kiev puppet entity.

"The militia who captured the armoured vehicles on Wednesday looked like professionals. They had Kalashnikovs, flak jackets, ammunition. One even carried a tube-shaped green grenade-launcher. Some hid their faces under black balaclavas. Others waved and smiled. All wore an orange and black ribbon – originally a symbol of the Soviet victory over fascism, and now the colours of the east's snowballing anti-Kiev movement. There was a flag of Donbass, the Russian-speaking eastern region with its main city of Donetsk.". . .

The armed men, meanwhile, made little secret of the fact they took orders from Moscow. Many of them appeared to be Russian troops from Crimea. Asked where he had come from, one told the Guardian: "Simferopol." How were things in Crimea? "Zamechatelna," he said in Russian – splendid. He added: "The old ladies are happy. Because of Russia their pensions have doubled." Had he served in the Ukrainian army and perhaps swapped sides? "No, I'm Russian," he replied.

Mitt Romney is insane to vote to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson

 What is it about people like Biden, Pelosi, Hillary and Bill Clinton, McCain, John Kerry, Al Gore, McConnell, Feinstein, etc., all of whom have been willing to and continue to sell out their nation for more power and more money? 

 American Thinker has been a treasure trove lately: Mitt Romney is insane to vote to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson - Patricia McCarthy    "Mitt Romney is thoroughly damaged by Trump derangement.  This has been evident for a long time over the last four years, but his vote to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson is a bridge too far.

"For a man of the Mormon faith to accept a judge who is perennially partial to purveyors of child pornography is incomprehensible.  How does a man with five sons and twenty-four grandchildren suffer from the same blind spot as Judge Jackson?  Only his hatred of all things Trumpian, like common sense, can explain such an appalling breach of American values, let alone Mormon values.

"He is a carpetbagger, but he represents the state in which Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped and held hostage for nine months!  One would think he would be crucially sensitive to the sexual abuse of young children.  But apparently not.  He, like the ever-on-the-fence Susan Collins and eternal RINO Lisa Murkowski, has voted to confirm Judge Jackson.

"Bottom line?  These three traitors to their constituents need to be voted out of office.  They've revealed themselves to be members of the left, the globalist elite who are dedicated to the wholesale destruction of America as founded.  Romney and Murkowski seem to revel in their betrayal.  As for Susan Collins?  Inexplicable but for the fact that she has no children of her own.  But who among us cannot imagine the horror of child sex trafficking? 

"Romney's duplicity can be explained only by his vitriolic animosity for President Trump, who won the presidency in 2016, whereas Romney lost to Obama in 2012.  Mitt believes himself to be far, far superior to the equally wealthy but more savvy Trump.  He does not seem to realize that this country was better off throughout Trump's four years than under Clinton, Bush, Obama, and the wretched Biden.". . .

Mitt Romney as Pierre Delecto, Twitter alter-ego, de facto spine (Cartoon) (commdiginews.com) 

"WASHINGTON: Mitt Romney, being in a perpetual search for a spine, has finally discovered Twitter, and gee, you don’t even have to use your real name.  Armed with newfound, Twitter-inspired boldness, Romney is feeling like his courageous old self… from way back in high school … when he gave someone an unwelcomed haircut. (Mitt Romney, Bully – The New Yorker May 2012)". . .

A concerned mother who questioned NY Mayor Adams on toddler mask mandate fired from city job

Rajan Laad    . . .This draconian move discourages dialogue between the government and a citizen. Governments usually prefer monologues and mandates. They expect the citizen to obediently follow. The goal behind Jampel's firing is to deter others from speaking the truth to power. 

"We revisit the principles of Democracy which is defined by Lincoln as ‘of the people, by the people and for the people.'

"Since all citizens cannot govern simultaneously, they elect a representative to govern on their behalf to whom they lend their power. 

"The representatives do not own power, they merely have access to power on atemporary basis. Citizens who own the power have every right to hold their representatives accountable. 

"The representative (mayor, governor, congressman, senator, sresident, etc) reports to the citizen, hence they are referred to as public servants.

"Since all citizens cannot be everywhere questioning the representatives, the press is assigned the task of holding the powerful accountable. If the press fails, the citizen can demand answers.  It is not incumbent on the citizen to be humble, polite, or servile; the representatives must answer questions either directly or via their spokespersons.

"Jampel’s firing is a reminder of how Democrats function when they have absolute power. Questioning is not only discouraged but punished.

"It has to be remembered that these very Democrats celebrated treasonous saboteurs and leakers attempting to undermine democratically-elected President Trump. The saboteurs were glorified and referred to as patriots, heroes, and whistleblowers who were speaking truth to power. They were even afforded anonymity and protection for their ‘bravery’

"Yet a mother was fired for expressing valid concerns about the wellbeing of her toddler. 

"This incident is another reason to vote against the tyrants who refer to themselves as Democrats."

Elon Musk Throws Down the Gauntlet on Twitter

 "Clearly, he’s not happy with the company’s pattern of censorship, of manipulation, of serving the leftist ideology. " Tim O'Brien

AfterMath - Home (terrellaftermath.com)

Elon Musk Throws Down the Gauntlet on Twitter - American Thinker   . . ."But the Left controls Big Tech, and responded by orchestrating the deplatforming of Trump. 

"On the Friday after the January 6, 2021 riots at the U.S. Capitol, Twitter saw an opportunity and seized on it. It suspended the sitting President of the United States from its platform. Over the course of that weekend other Big Tech firms essentially destroyed upstart Twitter competitor Parler and sought to make Trump a nonentity across several other channels, including e-commerce, email, and other platforms. On the final day of his presidential term, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and others had suspended or effectively banned Trump from the Internet. 

"As this was happening, hundreds of conservative Twitter users saw massive numbers of followers disappear before their eyes.  One by one, many of those users would face suspensions and bans of their own. ". . .

. . ." Now, Twitter has a new boss, not the same as the old boss. Let the fun begin."

Twitter Workers Worried Elon Musk Will Turn Their Free Speech Platform Into Platform That Allows Free Speech; Babylon Bee

His admirers will soon be copying his haircut.

'Like rats fleeing a sinking ship': Reports Jen Psaki to leave White House for MSNBC

" Press Sec. Gets Frustrated After Reporter Uses Timeline to Show Biden Lied | DM CLIPS | Rubin Report"

E Hoffman

: It’s long past due for her to go. She’s been a bad actor going back to the Obama years when she worked in the state department. She’s going from Kerry to Biden to MSNBC. It’s all the same.

Psaki and Joy Reid can discuss America's racism over coffee.

'Just like Lenin': Farage sounds alarm on Soros' true impact worldwide

 'Just like Lenin': Farage sounds alarm on Soros' true impact worldwide; Nigel Farage joins Newsmax to discuss longtime billionaire political donor and controversial international figure George Soros. - via Rob Schmitt Tonight, weeknights at 10PM ET on Newsmax

 

Soros stocks his war chest for Democrats ahead of midterms — Russia Today World News

Comments at this link:

“America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within.” - Stalin

"Hillary Clinton introduced George Soros [to a] small select group of people years ago and said that it was time we had somebody that was fearless and willing to stand up to do the right thing

"How can district attorneys take money from a activist? Doesn't that compromise their decisions in a court of law which could be viewed as tampering with evidence or a court outcome

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

Here's who was in the room when Clinton met with Soros at State Dept. (cnbc.com)

BLM purchased $6 million Los Angeles mansion with donor money: Report

 Washington Examiner

The national Black Lives Matter group purchased a $6 million mansion in a Los Angeles neighborhood with donor cash in October 2020 and then maneuvered to keep the purchase a secret, according to a report Monday.

BLM Global Network Foundation used a man with close business ties to the charity's co-founder, Patrisse Cullors, to purchase the luxury mansion with the charity's cash resources, according to a report by New York magazine. The property purchase came just two weeks after BLM received a $66.5 million cash infusion from its former fiscal sponsor on Oct. 6, 2020.". . .

. . . "Abdullah later blasted critics for demanding accountability for their management of BLM's millions.

“Who the f*** are you? You ain’t done s***,” Abdullah said. "I don't need to be accountable to you. ... I don't know what accountability looks like with people that I don't know and have never talked to."

"Paul Kamenar, an attorney for the watchdog group the National Legal and Policy Center, said Monday that Cullors's use of BLM's property for use on her personal YouTube channel appears to be an IRS violation.". . .

Russia faces global outrage over bodies in Ukraine’s streets

 By OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and NEBI QENA today

Zelenskyy appealed for more weaponry as Russia prepares a new offensive.  “If we had already got what we needed — all these planes, tanks, artillery, anti-missile and anti-ship weapons — we could have saved thousands of people,” he said.

"Associated Press journalists saw dozens of bodies in Bucha, including at least 13 in and around a building that local people said Russian troops used as a base. Three other bodies were found in a stairwell, and a group of six were burned together.

"Many victims seen by AP appeared to have been shot at close range. Some were shot in the head. At least two had their hands tied. A bag of spilled groceries lay near one victim.

"The dead witnessed by the news agency’s journalists also included bodies wrapped in black plastic, piled on one end of a mass grave in a Bucha churchyard. Many of those victims had been shot in cars or killed in explosions trying to flee the city. With the morgue full and the cemetery impossible to reach, the churchyard was the only place to keep the dead, Father Andrii Galavin said.

"Tanya Nedashkivs’ka said she buried her husband in a garden outside their apartment building after he was detained by Russian troops. His body was one of those left heaped in a stairwell.

“Please, I am begging you, do something!” she said. “It’s me talking, a Ukrainian woman, a Ukrainian woman, a mother of two kids and one grandchild. For all the wives and mothers, make peace on Earth so no one ever grieves again.”. . .

Ukraine war: Drone video shows Russian tank 'opening fire on a cyclist' in Bucha | Daily Mail Online    

A satellite image taken of a street in the city of Bucha on March 19 - when Russian forces were in full control of the city - shows dark objects in the road that exactly match where civilian corpses were later discovered by Ukrainian troops