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1. Trump was Plan B.
In 2014 my focus was on the very real possibility that Russia was going to invade Ukraine and fears that unless @BarackObama acted fast to reinforce the Baltics Putin would roll on. To coin the phrase, it was not a drill.
In 2014 my focus was on the very real possibility that Russia was going to invade Ukraine and fears that unless @BarackObama acted fast to reinforce the Baltics Putin would roll on. To coin the phrase, it was not a drill.
2. I stayed engaged reporting on the Ukraine war and believed that the fight against ISIS, though important, was a diversion. I looked then and I look now as ISIS having been nurtured by state actors. In my view Russia in particular worked with Turkey to arm ISIS and help
3. create conditions to lure US to put a force in the Mid East. So with US forces in a war in Syria and Iraq, Putin would be in a better position to attack Europe. Ukraine continued to suffer from the Russian attack and Obama began to react with the
4. first rotational deployment to the Baltics in April 2014. They continue and another was announced today. eur.army.mil/AtlanticResolv….
Ukraine held.
Then Putin went to Plan B. The attack on the US political system.
Ukraine held.
Then Putin went to Plan B. The attack on the US political system.
