I knew Hillary was basically guaranteeing a war with Russia, but how do you explain in 2012 when Mitt Romney said Russia was the biggest threat to the US, and Obama, the media, and the entirety of the left constantly mocked him about it. I suppose it was too early to show their hand, and any chance to shit on Romney was exploited. Then again, Obama had his hot mic moment with Putin around that time where he told Pootie to be patient and that he could be more flexible with Russia once the election was over. I seriously doubt Obama and Hillary are on opposite ends of that issue.
Putin and Bush didn't get along, and since America increasingly sees the entire world through the lens of our own partisan battles, in the 00s, the liberal consensus was Bush Bad, Russia Good. In the 00s, the libs hated Bush with a burning passion. He was Hitler. He was Not My President. And of course, every lib was an election denier who claimed Gore ACKSHUALLY won Florida despite him winning exactly zero out of three recounts, and that he was totally gonna win the fourth until the Supreme Court STOLE it. My increasingly insane leftist friend (who later trooned out) was obsessed with Russia and how much more enlightened it was than America during this time.
By 2012, it was still largely the belief of S-M-R-T people that being remotely concerned about Russia is something only dummy stupid doo-doo heads stuck in the past (i.e. Republicans) do. After all, their only aircraft carrier is a rusty pile of shit that randomly bursts into flames.
What changed between 2012 and 2016? Well, the biggest event was that America color revolutioned Ukraine to get our hands on Crimea, and then Russia successfully grabbed that sweet, juicy peninsula right from under our noses, using the classic American trick of invading a country and saying it totally doesn't count because the country they invaded couldn't do shit about it, while all America could do was cope, seethe, and dilate. Then we backed a revolution in Syria and even invaded them to steal their oil fields (I guess to build a gas pipeline or something), but Russia this time gave the government enough material support that it successfully fended off the terrorists we were arming, mostly because the Russians gave Assad big boy weapons, and we weren't exactly going to give Al Qaeda cruise missiles or tanks. They were
supposed to defeat Assad and genocide the Christians & Alawites using infantry weapons only.
So by 2016, the Dem establishment could see that Romney was
right. Any time the US stuck its fingers into some third world shitbucket to
steal its oil, gold, and children protect democracy, Russia was proving increasingly capable of stuffing a color revolution right back down our throats when their own interests were threatened, such as having a place to park their rusty shitbucket carrier in Syria.
When it was Her Turn in 2016, Hilldawg was ready to send the full might of the U.S. military into Syria to democracy Assad the way we did to Hussein. Obama was already taking steps to prepare Ukraine to invade Crimea, and obviously that would have continued under the Slay Kween. Problem is Trump won, and Trump is a Peace Through Superior Firepower guy, not a Stick Our Dick In Every Blender We Find guy, so that delayed things by four years.
