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2022-02-24 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Bit late now! Obama's Director of National Intelligence James Clapper says 'I wish we were more aggressive with Russia in 2014 when they annexed Crimean Peninsula'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Former Obama administration DNI James Clapper said he 'wished we were more aggressive with Russia in 2014'

  • Suggested Russia has become 'more emboldened than it was eight years ago' when he invaded Crimea

  • President Biden's assistant defense pick also blasted Obama White House for being 'too slow and incremental'

  • President Biden has slapped sanctions on Russian banks and some officials

  • He claimed sanctions went 'far beyond' previous administration

  • GOP leaders however claimed curbs were 'appeasement' and that 'tough talk' on Putin wasn't being followed through
Posted by Skidmark 2022-02-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top
 File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats 

#1 And I wish James Clapper and others were less aggressive to our American President and Patriots in 2016-2020.
Posted by Airandee 2022-02-24 01:39||   2022-02-24 01:39|| Front Page Top

#2 If he had the honor of a Japanese he would no longer be around to comment.
Posted by 3dc 2022-02-24 03:17||   2022-02-24 03:17|| Front Page Top

#3 This man should be in Leavenworth for 20 years for illegal domestic spying. But he's not, because there's one set of rules for them and another for us.
Posted by Omomolet Phutch9064 2022-02-24 03:19||   2022-02-24 03:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Should have, could have, would have.

Seems to be the mission statement of liberal diplomacy.
Posted by NN2N1 2022-02-24 03:43||   2022-02-24 03:43|| Front Page Top

#5 A sorrowful, end of life admission ?
Posted by Besoeker 2022-02-24 03:45||   2022-02-24 03:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Screw Clapper. Besides, "more aggressive" after Crimea? Uh, like that's any of our business?
Posted by DooDahMan 2022-02-24 08:34||   2022-02-24 08:34|| Front Page Top

#7 It's not our business. The fact it will have repercussions that we will feel here does not change that.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-02-24 08:41||   2022-02-24 08:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Trying to remember what was going on then.....

Oh yeah, laundering Uranium for Iran through Russia.

Annnddd...the Bidens were establishing dodgy banking practices to the point that Joe had to bribe Ukrainian officials to 86 the investigations. And sonofabitch, they did!

So Hillary! took the leg to get Uranium to Russia, Biden was in charge of laundering the "transfer fees", and in exchange to transporting the Uranium to Iran, Russia got Chrimea - part of the deal or not that was part of their cut because Obama wasn't going to scrub the hustle for such a small thing.

Help me out here, or do I need to purchase futures in aluminum?
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-02-24 11:06||   2022-02-24 11:06|| Front Page Top

#9 Why is Gonorrhea Called the Clap?

Jimmy ole VD brain boy.
Posted by Woodrow 2022-02-24 11:40||   2022-02-24 11:40|| Front Page Top

#10 Clapper should read some history books instead of engineering illegal coups. Crimea has been Russian ever since Catherine the Great ran the Tatars out of it.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-02-24 13:10||   2022-02-24 13:10|| Front Page Top

#11 How could Mr. Clapper be more aggressive when President Obama was working on being more flexible with Russia?
Posted by trailing wife 2022-02-24 21:08||   2022-02-24 21:08|| Front Page Top

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