{"id":384716,"date":"2018-11-12T09:03:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T08:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/who-lost-crimea\/"},"modified":"2018-11-12T09:03:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T08:03:52","slug":"who-lost-crimea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/who-lost-crimea\/","title":{"rendered":"Who \u2018Lost\u2019 Crimea?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Trump\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/trump-blames-obama-regime-for-ukraine-s-loss-of-crimea\/29588249.html\">faulted<\/a>\u00a0Obama for \u201callowing\u201d Russia to annex Crimea:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt was President Obama that allowed it to happen,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump has said something like this before more than once. Earlier this year, he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/trump-blames-obama-for-russia-invading-ukraine-crimea-67fdd25c0bd7\/\">complained<\/a>\u00a0that Obama was \u201cthe one that let Crimea get away\u201d and suggested that \u201cI may have had a much different attitude.\u201d The following week, Trump\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-politics\/wp\/2018\/06\/15\/trump-again-blames-obama-for-russian-annexation-of-crimea-says-he-may-meet-putin-in-the-summer\/?utm_term=.9cf96958a373\">said<\/a>, \u201cPresident Obama lost Crimea, because President Putin didn\u2019t respect President Obama.\u201d The assumption that Russian actions hinge on their leader\u2019s attitude towards ours is bizarre and ignores that Russia has agency and interests that have nothing to do with us or our presidents. Trump has repeated this often enough that it is worth spending a little time to pick apart this silly talking point.<\/p>\n<p>Most reports on Trump\u2019s remarks have focused on his choice to blame Obama for the annexation, but that is not nearly as important as the implication of Trump\u2019s statement that he seems to think it is up to the American president to \u201callow\u201d or \u201cdisallow\u201d the actions of other major nuclear-armed powers. Saying that Obama \u201callowed\u201d the annexation of Crimea presupposes that there was something that Obama could or should have done to prevent or reverse it. Short of starting a shooting war with Russia and presumably causing WWIII, there was nothing Obama could have done, and it is a measure of Trump\u2019s ignorance and his belligerent instincts that he thinks otherwise. Whether Russia controls Crimea or not is hardly a vital interest of the U.S., and it certainly isn\u2019t worth risking a war. If Trump believes otherwise, he is even more reckless and irresponsible than we thought.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/larison\/who-lost-crimea\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>Read the Whole Article<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/11\/no_author\/who-lost-crimea\/\">Who \u2018Lost\u2019 Crimea?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\">LewRockwell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/11\/no_author\/who-lost-crimea\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Trump\u00a0faulted\u00a0Obama for \u201callowing\u201d Russia to annex Crimea: \u201cIt was President Obama that allowed it to happen,\u201d he said. Trump has said something like this before more than once. Earlier this year, he\u00a0complained\u00a0that Obama was \u201cthe one that let Crimea get away\u201d and suggested that \u201cI may have had a much different attitude.\u201d The following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-384716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}