{"id":79748,"date":"2022-04-08T13:17:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T18:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=79748"},"modified":"2022-04-08T13:17:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T18:17:46","slug":"79748","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=79748","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s also called &#8216;gas lighting&#8217;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/ed-morrissey\/2022\/04\/08\/obama-hey-i-warned-you-that-putin-was-always-ruthless-n460950\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Obama: Hey, I warned you that Putin &#8220;was always ruthless&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the advantages that clairvoyants and\u00a0<em>eminences grises<\/em>\u00a0have 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\u2019s a couple of days old but worth watching to recall his brilliance at the time:<\/p>\n<div class=\"ratio ratio-16x9\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"mw-100\" title=\"Obama: 'The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back'\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bowhUWl6rxQ?feature=oembed\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Oh, wait \u2014 sorry, that wasn\u2019t the correct clip, was it?\u00a0<em>My bad<\/em>. 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.<\/p>\n<p>Let me look again. I think\u00a0<em>this\u00a0<\/em>is the one where Obama explains how tough he was on Putin:<\/p>\n<div class=\"ratio ratio-16x9\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Obama and Medvedev exchange caught on open microphone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SPMDGLbmdgo?feature=oembed\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Doggone it \u2014 I clearly need an intern to go back through my indices and reorganize. I\u2019m pretty sure that this is the one that demonstrates Obama\u2019s firm resolve to deal with Putin and his allies, especially when committing atrocities:<\/p>\n<div class=\"ratio ratio-16x9\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Obama's &quot;Red Line&quot; That Wasn't\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LMePcKiEMFE?feature=oembed\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><em>Ahem<\/em>. Sorry, dear readers, I\u2019m just having one hell of a time finding where Barack Obama ever took Putin seriously as a threat \u2026 at least while in office.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/08\/obama-blasted-for-self-serving-revisionist-russia-comments-during-conference-on-disinformation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Post finally helps out<\/a>\u00a0with this clip of Obama lecturing Jeffrey Goldberg about his leadership in dealing with the Russian tyrant. Ironically, one of the themes of this event was \u2014\u00a0<em>wait for it<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 \u201cdisinformation\u201d:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Former President Obama shares his thoughts on Putin&#39;s invasion of Ukraine at a University of Chicago lecture:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He was always ruthless. You witnessed what he did it Chechnya. He had no qualms about crushing those who he considered a threat.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Gc1UP2zPzu\">pic.twitter.com\/Gc1UP2zPzu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Recount (@therecount) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therecount\/status\/1512075642711379970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<section class=\"post-body\">\n<blockquote><p>The former president was participating in the \u201cDisinformation and the Erosion of Democracy\u201d conference at the University of Chicago, where he told the audience and The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, that he had been encouraged by the global response to aid Ukraine after Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded the country in February. He also remarked that when he was president, he recalled having to \u201cdrag\u201d U.S. allies to take action against Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will say that, as someone who grappled with the incursion into Crimea and the eastern portions of Ukraine, I have been encouraged by the European reaction. Because, in 2014, I often had to drag them kicking and screaming to respond in ways that we would\u2019ve wanted to see, from those of us who describe ourselves as Western democracies,\u201d the former president said.<\/p>\n<p>However, Obama\u2019s portrayal of how his presidency was tough on Russia didn\u2019t ring true to many people on Twitter, who criticized and mocked the president for his memory on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Terrorism expert and International security professor at Northeastern University Max Abrahms blasted Obama\u2019s answer as \u201cself-serving revisionist history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWatch Obama\u2019s self-serving revisionist history of how his administration responded the last time Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014,\u201d Abrahms wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is utter nonsense, and one has to wonder why Goldberg didn\u2019t call out Obama himself after his reporting on the \u201cred line\u201d debacle. It\u2019s sheer gaslighting, especially the reference to Chechnya. That war took place in 1999-2000, nine years\u00a0<em>before<\/em>\u00a0Obama took office. And yet Obama spent most of his eight years accommodating and appeasing Putin rather than confronting him, even\u00a0<em>after<\/em>\u00a0Putin\u2019s 2014 invasion of Crimea and the Donbas.<\/p>\n<p>For our last video, let\u2019s recall the greeting that Obama\u2019s administration gave Putin\u2019s regime immediately upon assuming office, nine years after Chechnya and mere months after Putin invaded Georgia. This certainly tells a tale about Obama\u2019s recognition of Putin\u2019s ruthless and imperial nature, huh?<\/p>\n<div class=\"ratio ratio-16x9\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gave Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov with a 'reset\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CFHQUfwfgT4?feature=oembed\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s also called &#8216;gas lighting&#8217; Obama: Hey, I warned you that Putin &#8220;was always ruthless&#8221; One of the advantages that clairvoyants and\u00a0eminences grises\u00a0have is the ability to remind us of the accuracy of their forecasts. 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