Media have it backwards, with Biden as tough cop, Trump the appeaser
The establishment media narrative that the Ukraine crisis is in large part a function of former President Trump allegedly appeasing and colluding with Vladimir Putin couldn’t be further from the truth, contends historian Victor Davis Hanson.
In a column for American Greatness, he writes that “an embarrassed Left now offers some surreal takes on why Putin went into Crimea and eastern Ukraine in 2014 and again into all of Ukraine in 2022 — while mysteriously bookending the four invasion-free Trump years.”
“We are told that hiatus was because Putin got all he wanted from Trump and rewarded him by not invading any of his neighbors,” says Hanson. “Really?”
He poses a series of questions to ponder for those who insist Trump went easy on Putin during his four years in the Oval Office while President Biden is standing strong against the Russian tyrant:
- Were Vladimir Putin and his advisors more or less delighted that their poodle Trump thankfully flooded the world with price-crashing oil?
- They were thankful Trump at least had killed Russian mercenaries in Syria?
- Putin himself was content that the United States got out of his own advantageous missile deal?
- Was he thrilled that Trump sold once taboo U.S. offensive weapons to Ukraine?
- Did the Kremlin grow ecstatic when Trump upped the U.S. defense budget?
- And was Russia especially thankful that Trump jawboned NATO into spending another $100 billion on defense?
- Did Putin clap when Trump killed Soleimani and Baghdadi, and bombed ISIS out of existence?
“We are left being lectured to now by the ubiquitous retired Lt. Col Alexander Vindman, the political operative remonstrating America on its anemic response to saving his native Ukraine,” writes Hanson.
In America Democrats are the Left & are Enemy #1 in OUR Country today !!!! They must be FIRED NOW !!!!
Vindman is a tool.