Mitt Romney made Obama, Trump and Biden cry over their “lukewarm” response to Russia’s “horrors” in Georgia and Crimea, saying “the ’80s called and we didn’t.”
- Republican Sen. Mitt Romney criticizes Presidents Joe Biden, Donald Trump and Barack Obama for their “lukewarm” response to Russian President Vladimir Putin
- Romney said it lit the way for Russia’s attack on Ukraine last night
- The Utah Republican called “the naive efforts of former leaders to unilaterally ‘reset’ and the short-sightedness of ‘America first.’
- “The ’80s called,’ and we didn’t answer,” Romney said
Republican Sen. Mitt Romney has criticized the presidents Joe Biden, Donald Trump and Barack Obama for their “lukewarm” response to the Russian president Vladimir Putinwhich he said lit the way for Russia’s attack on Ukraine overnight.
“Putin’s impunity predictably follows our lukewarm response to his previous horrors in Georgia and Crimea, our naive efforts to unilaterally ‘reboot’ and the short-sightedness of ‘America first,'” the Utah Republican said in a statement. “The ’80s called,” and we didn’t answer.
Romney warned that “history shows that the tyrant’s appetite for conquest is never satisfied.”
Republican Sen. Mitt Romney has criticized Presidents Joe Biden, Donald Trump and Barack Obama for their “lukewarm” response to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who he said paved the way for Russia’s attack on Ukraine last night.
“Putin’s impunity predictably follows our lukewarm response to his previous horrors in Georgia and Crimea, our naive efforts to unilaterally reset and short-sighted America,” Romney said, citing policies by the Obama and Trump administrations. .
During the 2012 presidential campaign, when Romney was the Republican candidate, trying to take away Obama’s second term, he said Russia was “no.” 1 geopolitical enemy “, a comment that was then ridiculed.
But now the warning of the governor, who has become a senator, seems prophetic.
After Russia’s invasion of Georgia in 2008, the Obama administration tried to “restart” with its Cold War rival.
Less than two months after Obama’s administration, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented her Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, with a red “reset” button to bring the issue back.
But in 2014, still under Obama’s watch, Russia annexed Crimea, part of Ukraine.
Trump called his foreign policy “America first” and spent four years in power, criticizing the NATO alliance, which was formed to counterbalance the former Soviet Union.
This week, Trump praised Putin’s strategy to declare two parts of Ukraine “independent” – which could potentially lead to a split in the Republican Party, as other members on the eve of the attack on Ukraine called on Biden to take a tougher hand against Putin. .
Romney, Trump’s biggest antagonist in the US Senate, compared Putin’s moves this week to those of Nazi Germany.
“Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is the first time in 80 years that a great power has set out to conquer a sovereign nation,” Romney said. “This is without justification, without provocation and without honor.”
He added that “the danger of once again looking away from Putin’s tyranny falls not only on the people of the nations he has violated, but also on America.”
“America and our allies must respond to the call to protect freedom by subjecting Putin and Russia to the harshest economic penalties, expelling them from global institutions and committing ourselves to expanding and modernizing our national defenses,” Romney said.
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