Former President Barack Obama was called out on Twitter Thursday for presenting what some called a “revisionist history” about his record with Russia, the NY Post reports.
The former president was participating in the “Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy” conference at the University of Chicago, where he told the audience and The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg that he had been encouraged by the global response to aid Ukraine after Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded the country in February. He also remarked that when he was president, he recalled having to “drag” US allies to take action against Russia.
“I will say that, as someone who grappled with the incursion into Crimea and the eastern portions of Ukraine, I have been encouraged by the European reaction. Because, in 2014, I often had to drag them kicking and screaming to respond in ways that we would’ve wanted to see, from those of us who describe ourselves as Western democracies,” the former president said.
However, Obama’s portrayal of how his presidency was tough on Russia didn’t ring true to many people on Twitter, who criticized and mocked the president for his memory on the issue.
Terrorism expert and Northeastern University international security professor Max Abrahms blasted Obama’s answer as “self-serving.”
“Watch Obama’s self-serving revisionist history of how his administration responded the last time Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014,” Abrahms wrote.
Mark Hemingway, senior writer at RealClearInvestigations, mocked Obama, tweeting, “‘grappled’ = did nothing after spending years mocking anyone that thought Russia was threatening and still refused to arm Ukraine.”
Several users remembered Obama’s infamous 2012 presidential debate moment, when he mocked Republican nominee Mitt Romney for calling Russia our number one geopolitical foe. Obama said at the time that “the 1980s” called and they “want their foreign policy back.” Read more at the NY Post.
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