Thread by @ggreenwald

I thought in 2012 that Obama was right about Russia and Romney was wrong, and I still think so: the idea that Russia is the greatest threat to the US is absurd.

But everything about Dem politics and rhetoric requires Dems to do what @PaulBegala did:

https://twitter.com/PaulBegala/status/807608170403270656

There's a major irony when it comes to partisan politics and Russia: Obama was everything Trump was accused of being. Obama was eager to avoid confrontation with Putin. He resisted sending lethal arms to Ukraine (Trump did) and denied they were a grave threat (even after Crimea).

There's no way to overstate the utter insanity of the US media and the Democratic Party spending 5 years affirming a completely deranged conspiracy theory -- that Trump was controlled by and captive to the Kremlin through blackmail -- when everything negated that demented tale.

Obama - not in 2009 but in 2016: the last year of his presidency, two years after the annexation of Crimea - emphatically argued what, today, is prohibited, what will get you smeared as a Kremlin asset: Ukraine is of vital interest to Russia, not the US:

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1383044367909322757

Thanks to those pointing out that Romney's exact quote was that Russia is the "number one geopolitical foe" of the US: a claim I disagreed with then and disagree with now. Here's what Democrats did to mock him for it: