Biden admits Obama 'f***ed up' with Putin and 'didn't take him 'seriously'
(Bidan’s new hit job on Obama, Bidan is never responsible for anythingBidan is so worried about his legacy, little does he know Woodward could write five books on Joe, he’s still going to be the worst president of all time.)
• Bob Woodward's new book offers a behind-the-scenes look at Biden in power
• It shows how he blames Obama for not getting tough with Putin in 2014
By ROB CRILLY, CHIEF U.S. POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT | UPDATED: 12:17 EDT, 8 October 2024
Just ahead of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, President Joe Biden made clear where the blame lay for Moscow's aggression: His predecessor Barack Obama.A new book by Bob Woodward describes Biden's frustration that his then boss did not take tougher action when Russian forces invaded Crimea almost a decade earlier.
'They fed up in 2014,' Biden said to a friend, according to Woodward. 'That’s why we are here. 'We fed it up. Barack never took Putin seriously.'
The book, published next week, offers an eye-popping look inside Biden's blunt, often foul-mouthed relationships with foreign leaders and former presidents as he navigated a string of national security crises.
Nowhere is that sharper than his fury at Obama for failing to check Putin when he first moved into Ukraine. 'We did nothing. We gave Putin a license to continue,' Biden said, according to excerpts of the 'War' published by CNN. 'Well, I'm revoking his f***ing license!' (Oh Yeah this is right at the same time Obama etc. couped Ukraine, so much more nicer than what Putin did to save the ethic Russians)
Russian troops, in plain uniforms without insignia, moved into Crimea in February and March 2014 after the ousting of Ukraine's pro-Russian president. It came after Obama had dispatched Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on a mission to 'reset' relations with Moscow.
And in 2012, when his election opponent Sen. Mitt Romney described Russia as 'our number-one geopolitical foe,' Obama responded with mockery. 'The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back, because the Cold War's been over for 20 years,' he said.
After the invasion, Obama opposed sending weapons to Ukraine and instead issued relatively minor sanctions against Russian individuals and businesses. Instead, European nations emerged to lead resistance to Moscow's invasion and annexation of the region.
Years later, after Putin had taken the next step of a full-scale assault on Ukraine, Obama defended his response.'We challenged Putin with the tools that we had at the time, given where Ukraine was,' he told CNN reporter Christiane Amanpour.
Woodward suggests that Biden, who was picked by Obama in part for his foreign policy chops and claimed to be the last person in the room when major decisions were taken, saw the Russian leader differently.
'That f***ing Putin,' Biden reportedly said to advisers in the Oval Office not long after Russia's 2022 invasion. 'Putin is evil. We are dealing with the epitome of evil.' (The most evil and corrupt President, Bidan calls Putin evil, predictable)
Yet, European leaders have frequently expressed frustration with Biden's reluctance to send Ukraine the weapons they want.
The book also reveals how Donald Trump kept in regular touch Putin after leaving office. (so he’s admitting the Bidan Admin spied on Trump, they just make up shit all the time)
During the height of the pandemic in 2020, Trump also sent the famously hypochondriac Russian leader a supply of COVID tests 'for his personal use,' Woodward reports. It came at a time of gestures of solidarity as the pandemic spread. 'Please don't tell anybody you sent these to me,' Putin told Trump. (you can spot the big bullshit here, like Putin would even sound like a fairy)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13937785/bob-woodward-joe-biden-ukrain.html
I hope Woodward gets sued to Kingdom Come and can never write a book again.