Remember In 2008 When The MSM Ripped Sarah Palin For Saying The Russians Might Invade Ukraine?

A small force of Russians have taken over parts of the eastern parts of the Ukraine. A scenario that almost no one could have projected.....ALMOST.

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Back in 2008, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin suggested that if Barack Obama were elected, we should expect a foreign policy which was so lousy there could be real instability in the world, including that Russia could invade Ukraine.

The mainstream media ripped Governor Palin for the projection. They called her statement “strange” and an “extremely far-fetched scenario,” Foreignpolicy.com said:

Speaking Tuesday at a rally in a Reno, Nevada, Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin had a little fun with her counterpart on the Democratic ticket, thanking Joe Biden for warning Barack Obama’s supporters to “gird your loins” for an international crisis if the Illinois senator wins. Palin helpfully offered four scenarios for such a crisis, one of which was this strange one:

“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.”

As we’ve said before, this is an extremely far-fetched scenario. And given how Russia has been able to unsettle Ukraine’s pro-Western government without firing a shot, I don’t see why violence would be necessary to bring Kiev to heel. Watch the upcoming parliamentary elections in December to see if Moscow gets the pliable new government it wants.

 H/T Jammie Wearing Fools