For The 'Putin Saw Weakness' Crowd
[QUOTE=EatALotOpus;2667640]You're surely Jest right? I'll answer point by point.
Invasion of the US. He's already doing it and US now braces for more. Think Cyber security.
Invading a NATO Country: Uncle Joe is a politician, Putin's an Intelligence man. Two different thinking dynamics. Putin knows the smell of blood. Back in 2014 when the US president was preoccupied with releasing terrorist, exchanging 5 terrorist to one traitor, bending over to kiss royal hands or dividing the country, Putin Invaded Crimea. Who was the president then? Yeah him with Biden as VP. Like another poster said, the Orange Man or whatever you want to call him kept Putin at bay. Putin didn't change his stripes but knew the response will be different then. Now he smelled blood again and took the opportunity. Let me introduce an article by Politico nonetheless. A left leaning outlet. [URL]https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/24/putin-was-playing-biden-all-along-00011555.[/URL] Note there's a comment about China too as I posted in one of my previous posts.[/QUOTE]Thanks for reminding us how much weakness Putin saw in Trump when Putin conducted "the most successful cyber infiltration of USA Government and corporate institutions in history" on his watch.
[B]Trump administration officially says huge hack was likely Russian espionage[/B]
[URL]https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1252882[/URL]
[QUOTE]The Trump administration issued an official announcement Tuesday saying Russian agents carried out what may have been the most successful cyber infiltration of U.S. government and corporate institutions in history.[/QUOTE]Might as well add the weakness Putin saw in GW Bush when he invaded Georgia on his watch.
And the weakness Saddam Hussein saw in Bush1 when he invaded Kuwait on his watch.
Oh, how about the weakness the Hezbollah saw in Reagan when they bombed the USA barracks in Beirut on his watch? Boy, they really got that one right. Nobody saw a USA Commander in Chief turn tail and run faster from the fight before or since. Anti American Jihadists certainly learned a lesson about the value of attacking Americans with bombs to get their way after that one.
Ho Chi Minh saw weakness in Eisenhower when he conducted "the peoples war" on South Vietnam and invaded Laos on his watch.
Yeah, I guess Germany saw weakness in FDR when they invaded Poland on his watch. Same with the Japanese when they bombed Pearl Harbor.
Any point in going on with this line of non reasoning?
Ok, at least one more for good measure; how weak must the South have seen Lincoln in 1860? Wow.
LOL. Trump bragged about how that wouldn't have happened on his watch too! Of course there would have been no Civil War on his watch. He would have signed an unconditional surrender on Jefferson Davis' timeline and terms like he did with the Taliban in Afghanistan.