What A Difference

The events of the past weekend should put to rest the left's absurd claim that Donald Trump was "Putin's puppet." Let me remind you again how Obama/Biden and Biden/Harris have handled Putin's Russia compared to how Trump/Pence handled Russia.

Under Obama/Biden, Putin seized the Crimean Peninsula, and supported the renegade Ukrainian provinces. He did this after then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's infamous "reset" of our relationship with Russia. 

There was a lot of huffing and puffing from Barack Obama and Joe Biden. But nothing significant happened, and Russia still controls Crimea.

Donald Trump and Mike Pence came into office and they hammered Putin over and over again. They sanctioned the Nord Stream pipeline from Russia to Germany, and they made America energy independent. 

Trump went further. He even threatened to sanction European countries that purchased Russian energy. That severely undercut Russia's economy. 

He pushed our European allies to boost their defense spending so that NATO could more effectively confront Russia. When Russian forces attacked U.S. troops in Syria, Trump obliterated them. Trump sent lethal weapons to Ukraine that Obama and Biden refused to send.

And when we caught Russia repeatedly violating treaties, Trump canceled them (here and here) rather than tolerate Russia's cheating.

But when Biden took office, he reversed the sanctions on Putin's Nord Stream 2 pipeline. He canceled our Keystone pipeline, and waged war on the American energy industry. Lo and behold, Russia is on the move again.

Two years ago, during the Democrat primary campaign, Joe Biden tweeted, "Vladimir Putin doesn't want me to be president. . .  If you're wondering why -- it's because I'm the only person in this field who's ever gone toe-to-toe with him."

That sounds like Russian disinformation to me. Biden never stood up to Putin, and Putin knows how weak Biden really is. And while Joe Biden is trying to talk tough now, Putin and his allies in Beijing and Tehran are laughing as Biden keeps making concessions to communist China and Iran.