Also a reminder: "Obama did it too" doesn't mean Trump doing it was good - in fact, it means exactly the opposite.https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/976419426798047232 …
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Replying to @baseballcrank
And while condemnable before 2012, the Russian government’s behavior has been inarguably worse since the Obama call, especially given cyberattacks on US in 2016.
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Replying to @jaketapper
There's a chicken and egg issue there with Obama's policies - the waffling on Georgia, the reset button, "more flexibility," Uranium One, "the 80s called" - the Obama team gave a lot of green lights to keep pressing the envelope.
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Georgia was Bush, not Obama. And regrets, they have a few.https://www.google.com/amp/thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2014/03/07/fmr-bush-national-security-adviser-we-should-have-sanctioned-russia-after-georgia-invasion/amp/ …
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I know. Was referring to Obama's reax during the campaign. Bush's response was weak, but he had basically no political capital by August-September 2008 & spent all of it on TARP.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @jaketapper
You're attributing way too much of Russian behavior to American presidents. Russian national interest--especially Putin's interpretation of it--does much more to explain those events.
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Russia long dominated its near abroad. Putin believes Russia losing that influence with the USSR's collapse was a tragedy that needed to be rectified. Maybe some POTUS rhetoric or sanctions would've felt satisfying to Americans, but wouldn't transform Russia's national interests.
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