As Russia invades Ukraine, we flash back to 2008 where it was predicted that Russia would invade Ukraine.
Though she was mocked for it, Sarah Palin actually speculated in 2008 that Russian President Vladimir Putin would be encouraged to invade Ukraine after President Barack Obama’s weak response to the nation invading Georgia.
Palin said then:
After the Russian Army invaded the nation of Georgia,
Senator Obama's reaction was one of indecision and moral equivalence, the kind
of response that would only encourage Russia's Putin to invade Ukraine next.
For those comments, she was mocked by the high-brow Foreign
Policy magazine and its editor Blake Hounshell, who now is one of the
editors of Politico magazine.
In light of recent events in Ukraine and concerns that
Russia is getting its troops ready to cross the border into the neighboring
nation, nobody seems to be laughing at or dismissing those comments now.
Hounshell wrote then that Palin's comments were "strange" and "this is
an extremely far-fetched scenario."
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