WOW! CNN gives Mitt Romney credit for....

 https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/22/politics/mitt-romney-russia-ukraine/index.html

WOW! CNN gives Mitt Romney credit for his Russia comments that he was mocked for in 2012. Romney and Trump both acknowledged the threat that Russia is to the world. How hostile and self serving Putin can be. Meanwhile Obama had more flexibility after the election and Biden shut down America’s production of oil and made Russia rich again.

I can only image the headlines if Trump was in office. The World on the brink of WWIII and Trump is vacationing in Delaware. Trump plays golf as Ukraine burns. Trump funds war by continuing to buy oil from Russia.

For every liberal Larry and Linda out there who has lost sleep over Trump and allows him to live in your brain rent free, please do research on different administrations foreign policies. I understand with your infatuation with identify politics and how awful America is, it can be difficult to grasp the concept that there are other things happening in the world. However these things should be slightly important to you.

There is also a poll associated with this article all the way at the bottom. You have to answer the question prior to seeing the results. At the time I discovered this article the results were as follows:

Do you think then-presidential candidate Mitt Romney was right when he called Russia the United States' "number one geopolitical foe" in 2012?

Yes, I think so 74%

Possibly 16%

No, I don't think so 8%

Other / No opinion 1%

Direct Quotes:

"Russia, this is, without question, our number one geopolitical foe," Romney, who would be the Republican presidential nominee in the 2012 race against President Barack Obama, told Wolf Blitzer in March of that year. "They — they fight every cause for the world's worst actors."

Obama and his team pounced on the comment, insisting that it showed Romney was hopelessly out of touch when it came to the threats facing the US.

Obama went directly after Romney for that remark. "When you were asked, 'What's the biggest geopolitical threat facing America,' you said 'Russia.' Not al Qaeda; you said Russia," Obama said. "And, the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back, because the Cold War's been over for 20 years."

But today, after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian troops into eastern Ukraine, Romney's comments look very, very different. And by "different," I mean "right," as even some Democrats are now acknowledging.

Given that, it's worth revisiting the context around what Romney said and why.

He was reacting to a hot-mic moment between Obama and then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev earlier in 2012. In that exchange, Obama told Medvedev: "This is my last election. And after my election, I have more flexibility."

Republicans were up in arms, insisting that Obama was taking a hard line with Russia publicly while, apparently, making clear to the country's leader that he was open to compromise.

What looked like a major flub during the 2012 campaign -- and was used as a political cudgel by Obama -- now looks very, very different. It should serve as a reminder that history is not written in the moment -- and that what something looks like in that moment is not a guarantee of what it will always look like.