.... And the Orange Clown blames Obama for Crimea's annexation by Russia (what!).
LOL. Here is what he said:
"You'll have to ask Obama, because he was the one that let Crimea get away."
"He allowed Russia to take Crimea. I may have had a much different attitude."
It would not have been in America's interest to interfere in this matter.
There are legitimate questions as to the legitimacy of Ukraine's current government, which is the result of a pro-Western coup. The Crimea annexation is, in part, a response to this, but it is also, in part, a result of a majority of Crimeans wishing to be part of Russia. I'm not real keen on this 1930s-style resolution of the issue, but I'm also not a big fan of the kind of expansion of NATO that has expanded in ways America explicitly promised Russia in the 1990s would not happen.
I am somewhat torn about Trump's course here. I am not a Free Trader, and I do believe that we ought to have a cost-benefit analysis of our entangling alliances, but I do agree with the idea that while we should not have this massive interventionist foreign policy that seeks to spread democracy worldwide, it is true that our most stable and enduring allies are the democracies of the world. The Europeans aren't pulling their weight in our alliance, but we have far more in common with these nations than we presently do with Russia. On the other hand, we DO have much in common with Russia, including common enemies.
