Former President Barack Obama speaks with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in a wide-ranging interview about the importance of preserving democracy in the US and around the world. #CNN #News
Wake up call occurred when Russia invaded Crimea. When that call happened Obama just turned off the alarm, removed the batteries, unplugged the alarm from the socket and went right back to sleep.
what are you going to do when your opponent has nuclear weapons and has been telling the world it's willing to use them since the 60's? That NATO is helping now and russia hasn't used a nuke is the wake up call, it was all saber rattling all along and yeah we may now know that but hindsight is 50/50.
That's Biden and Russians citizens with their social media victimization.... Obama would have been more grounded and taking action by not interfering into something that might grab the attention and CUT THE SHIT THAT IS HAPPENING IN OTHER COUNTRIES THAT CNN DOESN'T REPORT.... TRUMP IS CRAZY AND CAN CAUSE PROBLEMS
@@MB-dq2gzObama orchestrated the so-called reset with Russia, arguably prompting Putin to annex Crimea in 2014. Meanwhile, Merkel (alongside Sarkozy) twisted Urkaine's arm to sign the flawed Minsk agreement, just to immediately reward Russia by creating Nord Stream 2. Western appeasement at its worst.
@@voidmusicpromo His brain may have overrided. I was genuinely curious about his opinion which he seemed to consider was better than U.S and Germany elected officials, but apparently it extended only to sound bites he heard someone else say. 🙄
Ukraine conducted the Dunkirk operation in Crimea in 2014 because the battle was lost before it started. And in Donbas, the Ukrainian army alone stopped the Russian troops near Debaltsevo in 2014-2015, the West did not help in any way. It was the result of Obama's personal inaction.
The same is going on with Armenia. Armenians had their Velvet revolution in 2018, signaling a move away from Russia towards Europe and democratic rule. The US and Europe not only didn't help, they poured money into the despotic regime of Azerbaijan under Trump to supposedly strengthen it against Iran and Russia. Instead, Azerbaijan double crosseed the West by snuffing out democratic self-rule in Nagorno Karabakh and attacking Armenia, after which it signed a bilateral security treaty with Russia the week before Russia invaded Ukraine! Now, Azerbaijan is happily selling Russian oil as Azeri oil, helping the Russians bypass sanctions. Armenia was where Russia practiced before it invaded Ukraine. Armenia has yet to get any help from the West.
why can’t he just admit his mistakes? It’s obvious that it was the annexation of Crimea and the inaction of the United States in 2014 that led to a full-scale invasion
@@SLavaluChinang5...that's what makes america great!! America wudnt have been known if it cud have been sitting on its ass acting like its minding its business...even on a personal level if you wanna get known get out there! Reach out!! Let your character, talents known, sitting on your couch and waving to your neighbour n passing by won't help
I was taught that Democracy is always a work in progress to keep trying to make it better. You can't just sit back and be lazy about living in a democratic country, it will always need work to make it better for everyone.
5:36 The Donbas area of Ukraine is like Crimea, predominantly ethnic Russians too. The difference is that the Donbas is where all the rich agricultural lands and other industries are, which made up around 80% of Ukraine's former GDP. FYI, Russia annexed the Donbas in September of 2022, it's now part of Russia.
I don't dislike Obama but he liked to do things his own way too often and he DROPPED the ball on Putin. It was always obvious Putin did not respect him and this weakness lead to the present.
So well-spoken as usual, but his answer on why he didn't do more to confront Russia when Putin invaded Crimea didn't really make sense if you follow closely. I think he knows he and others should have done more.
Yea he was a naive moron when it came to dealing with Russia and China. Really pretty pathetic overall that he did not listen to Biden on these topics when he had a VP that knew what the game was really about. I think he is a failed president overall. 3 failed presidents in row. Clinton, Bush, then Obama.... 24 years of failed globalist economic policies that sold our country to China for nothing, and weakened our standing on the international stage against clear adversaries in Russia and China. Pathetic. Not to mention he seems completely unwilling to admit that he did not do enough to strengthen NATO and help Ukraine. Arrogant. Ukraine wanted Javelins back then... enough said, now they have them and look what they have done with them.
He created the issue because he didn’t put a stop in Syria,they crossed the red line.And nothing happened.Putin saw the weakness just like now.Weak admiration again
Obama's lack of "drawing the Redline" on Russia attacking Ukraine back in 2014 is why we are all here now ... appeasement does not work no matter WHO is President against DicK Taters .... and I support Obama .. just to be clear ..
I hear that, but the root cause was appeasement and pro-Russian choices by the big European partners Germany, France and Italy. Especially Germany with Nord Stream 2 going on even after annexation of Crimea. For the US, it wasnt worth a split of the NATO coalition. But again these are conclusions afterwards, nobody expected the grandpa to go all in.
@@bastaardzmuller It's also Putin's fault for illegally eating at Ukraine's territory in the first place. We need to give that dictator more credit for his crimes not just blaming ourselves. Ignoring what that dictator and his irredentist, fascist policies have done is tomfoolery.
@@awallner1 Can’t agree more. Putin triggered a democratic backsliding from the beginning. In the grand scheme of democracy versus dictatorship history has already proven the likely outcome.
The old way of thinking. "Big countries cannot do what they want to small countries " He actually said those words without hesitation. As long as American politicians keep hiding the hegemony the US has around the world, and American citizens keep ignoring stories that provide evidence of the abuse of power we have over other countries to take their resources and control their governments, things wont improve and the weight of all the lies, betrayals and manipulation we've practiced around the world will one day crush us.
I Can barely listen to his lies. You spoke that so perfectly. Sadly too many people listen to this bs and don't research it for themselves. This is 3 months ago, he is talking all around himself because he is full of lies. WE NOW HAVE THE OBIDEN ADMIN, and a divided people who have no clue what this guy did to libya.
Stoppod listening when he said inflation primarily from war in Ukraine & energy prices. Blatant lie, it was the Fed expanding the money supply by 30% and he would know that.
100%. The cowered to Putin and were fools. US was obliged to defend Ukraine under Budapest Agreement but didn’t and Merkel is cut from the same DDR cloth as Vlad
Tbf, Ukraine was still a shitshow in 2014. They made some strides, though not nearly enough, to combat corruption in the years after, but until Zelensky's government showed Everest-sized balls by refusing to leave Kiev and calling for more ammo, the western powers were anticipating Ukraine to fold to invasion in a matter of weeks.
Your mindset is so imperialist. You represent a mindset propagated by Hollywood. The truth is: the more you interfere regionally, the more wars and bigger wars there are, thus more deaths. Improve your own defense, don’t interfere with others. Listen when a country raised their own concerns to you and never ever ignore it, esp if that nation is a Nuclear power that has more nukes than you and your Allies. When US interfered with Ukraine’s politics and provided weapons to Ukraine pre-war, this had escalated the situation. And, this is In addition to dishonoring both verbal and written agreements by the west and Ukraine, as advised by US. Furthermore, when US influential military subcontractors Think Tank publish study on “how to weaken Russia” by disintegrating them into smaller nations so US-NATO can easily control them, ofc, it will make Russia worry. Russia has been feeling insecure, and as a proof, they have been asking for Security Guarantee for themselves. But US has been too boastful and ignored it, at the expense of a smaller nation Ukraine and Ukrainians’ lives. What do you wish Obama want to do? fight Russia? Regardless of who wins in a direct fight between US and Russia, some of US cities will be incinerated, esp since, accdg to US military reports, Russia has a better modern hypersonic missiles than US, that cannot be shoot down by US defense equipment. My questions: In the last years that US have been the only superpower, how many wars did it started regionally? 😂 Is US truly Democratic country? Why do you keep demonizing Russia, when they conduct elections too? Do all nations have to adapt an American style democracy and everyone else which do not are evil? “The analysis of 1,779 recent policy outcomes found that “economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy,” while average citizens “have little or no independent influence. In other words, the U.S. is an oligarchy: a system of government where a small number of elites rule. Everyone else? Not so much.”(Represent Us, 2023)
Ukrainian here. I realy like Obama, I think he is a nice person, but his decisions on Ukraine in 2014 were catastrophic. When Ukraine needed weapons and other military support the most, first thing we got were American MREs. MREs! The artillery radars we got in 2015 to counter russian artillery in Debaltsevo were programmed not to work to its full capacity. The intelligence information we got from Pentagon, was always somewhat too late. I respect Obama and choice of American people, but he deserves a lot of critics on the ukrainian topic.
If he would have given Ukraine military support many would have called him foolish and starting a war. He had his hands tied by Republicans many Democrats would have viewed him as a war hawk.
@@RH-bp7st It was his job to define a leadership position and rally people towards what would have been right. I think he is a failure, from not pulling out of Afghanistan like he said he would do, to weakening the US in trade against China. I voted for him to make serious change after Bush, he just continued the same path.
@@RH-bp7stexactly m! He was already labeled the Drone death king 😂 And wanted to leave his legacy mostly Also supply by proxy would have created more of a vacuum effect in that area
This is the man (who I voted for twice) who said to Mitt Romney in a debate when I said Russia was a threat that “the Cold War wants their national policy back” or something like that.
Well, other ethnic groups also lived in Crimea. Russians have forcibly settled everywhere, but that doesn't mean these regions have to be part of the Russian Federation, or that Russians have to be given any special rights in these regions.
@@mmitleidt7969 Do you know anything about Crimea? You know that under Ukraine in Crimea there was only 1 state language, even though most of the Crimea is the people of the Crimean Tatars, Ukraine did not give them the right to officially consider their language as the state language. Now there are 3 official languages in Crimea from Russia! Three! The Russians did not forcibly settle anywhere, it was the Ukrainians who seized everything there, ask any inhabitant of the Crimea, he will tell you how the Ukrainians in Ukraine seized other people's houses, built private beaches and gangsterized business. Russians lived there in the 14th century! This is a historical Russian land. As for Ukraine, it has no land of its own at all. The state came into existence in 1991. Until that moment, these were the Russian lands of the Soviet Union.
@@sergeysergeev7564 Historically, ethnic Russians first appear countably in Crimea in the 18th century. It was not until the 19th and 20th centuries that the majority of Crimea's population was ethnically Russian. Anyone can ask themselves how it was possible for the Russians to spread there so quickly. It certainly didn't go without bloodshed. So, historically Crimea is not Russian at all. What you say about the official language is complete nonsense, anyone can read that in the 1998 Constitution of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. And the Russian Federation, which came into existance in 1990, is not the USSR and thus has no claims to anything that was formerly part of the USSR. Anyone who wants to live in the Russian Federation is welcome to emigrate there.
Wrong! Stalin brought 'russians' to Crimea in 1920's - 1930's mostly Mordva ethnicity and as far as my parents remember Mordva did not like Crimea at first - different climate. So shut up about so called 'have always lived'.
0:30 Barack Hussein Obama administration caused this war in Ukraine 🇺🇦 2008-2012 and 2013-2016 0:42 African American and Mexican American are 2 different cultures ethnicities of the United States 🇺🇸 We are a nation of mix culture's in the states.
His speech looks good, until I remember what he did with Libya. Democrats and Republicans are not so differents when it's about Foreign policy, USA still have this Manifest Destiny and Cold War mentality. That's why the periphery of capitalism are being neutral in the this conflict. Like Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
0:05 Pres. Obama doesn't address Joe Biden's age. 0:26 Pres. Obama does not address Biden's shockingly low approval among minorities. Instead, he says there will be no serious primary challenge to Joe Biden. 1:02 There actually is a huge split between actual leftists (not liberals) and the Democratic Party. 3:34 "Recent memory' must not include the dismantling of Yugoslavia. 3:50 "The old ways of thinking: might makes right, big countries can do what they want to small countries, that people cannot independently determine their futures." Doesn't this statement apply overwhelmingly more to the United than to any ten other countries? 4:10 [watching the Ukrainians fighting the Russians] reminded Europe of who they were." Ex nazi collaborators that hate Russia. 4:39 "...willy-nilly, determine the borders of other countries." Like Kosovo, perhaps (not a country). 5:43 Thank you, Barack, Crimea was indeed populated by Russians. 6:40 Pres. Obama explains the timeline of political change and militarization with Ukraine from 2014 coup d'etat to the Russian invasion. He leaves out who was pushing these changes (the US, point person Victoria Nuland) and who the key actors representing US interests in Ukrainian society were (Azov, Svoboda, Right Sector, and other "far-right nationalist" -- I'm being polite -- organizations that had been American covert assets within Ukraine since the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945. Got to say, President Obama seems less and less like the man I voted for twice with each passing year. On the other hand, if a president cannot change the social/political order - as he often admitted he could not do without popular mass movements demanding change - he did a fine job of defending US interests abroad (global domination through military aggression, subversion, subornation, de-stabilization. economic warfare, overthrow, debt peonage, and terrorism) and at home (rewarding Wall Street criminals for their economic crimes and their near destruction of the world economy, helping the 1% to double their share of GDP yet again, allowing American businesses and private assets to be gobbled up by fewer and fewer monopolistic corporations).
He talks well, but he did nothing to prevent this war from happening back in 2014 when he had the chance. His inactivity during the annexation of Crimea encouraged Putin to invade Ukraine (his response to why he did nothing was unconvincing).
Everything we do has consequences, whether is bad or good depends on what we see. Even when we think we do something right, doesn't mean it won't go wrong. Future is unpredictable.
@@donovan8747 That is true, but past behaviour is what we use to predict the future. It is clear that when you allow a bully or dictator to get away with it once, in the hope they will stop there, does not work. They inevitably use weakness to get more.
A man comes from nowhere and enslaved you to fear. You should do your diligence. I mean he is the reason phosphorus munitions are illegal. And Christians are being watched. I would watch the idol Christians too. They never make up for their debt. Aka sin. They rob Peter to pay Paul
Theories are for fakes. I'm a realist. Bush administration all of them brought (terrorism) to America. How. Would you not seek vengeance if Russia showed up here and left their trash bombs after murdering thousands In an air raid. And see today (all is being seen) I would hunt me down too. But see I'm not a murder!. Just know my own story of past lives!!!. Stop being so gullible.
Remember when Obama whispered in Medvedev's ear on a hot mic moment that "he would have more flexibility" after the U.S. election? And Medvedev responded that he would relay the message to Putin? Too bad Obama didnt have a wake-up call moment when he was bargaining with our security and future.
4:55 Start of Q&A on Crimea. Obama makes a key distinction between the 2014 invasion of Crimea and the ongoing invasion. When the main invasion began in February 2022, many in both the West and in Russia believed it would play out similarly to Crimea, with Ukraine proper quickly capitulating. Ukranian morale in resisting the 2022 invasion was a key reason the West was able to build such a strong coalition around Ukraine's defense.
@@harryfarber6435 Precisely: Trump would not have been able to muster as strong an international coalition to defend Ukraine, if one at all. He is on record as a critic of NATO and a pro-Russia apologist, and owes his 2016 victory in part to Russian interference in his favor. Or did you mean that, according to sources named Trump, Trump would never have allowed Putin to invade Ukraine because of how no one is smarter, more politically experienced, and better at making deals than he is? Also, you can copy/paste people's names when reply to them; I know you painstakingly typed it out because you put the i as an l.
The former president is a good speaker, as far as President Biden, I’m mixed. I approve of his handling of Ukraine, I disagree with his handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan. So he’s pretty much a wash as far as his actions. That said, I’m a republican, I wouldn’t vote for the narcissist trump if you paid me. I hope the we get some solid candidates for the next election.
His handling of Ukraine is getting thousands killed. He stopped all peace deals and he has lost his proxy war he provoked, Wasted over 100 billion American tax payers dollars. My God Wake Up!
What a great, intelligent, eloquent man and greatest president I've been alive to know and I wish he was still my president, history will be good to him, Trump will go down as worse president in history, too bad the GOP can't see it and history won't be kind to them either. Love you Obama
What is happening today with Ukraine is the result of his foreign policy in Syria. He showed US weakness to all Arabian and African countries by not intervening to defend Syrians against their dictator and Iranian and Russian associates.
I keep hearing them call it an illegal invasion. Someone tell me what a legal invasion is? I’m pretty sure Iraq and Afghanistan didn’t consent to the US invading them. I’m pretty sure that Syria didn’t consent to Americans finding a rebellion and sending troops to help the rebels. I’m pretty sure Lybia didn’t consent to the US and EU bombing them to support the rebels. So please someone tell me what a legal invasion is?
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President Obama was the new Democratic American speaker when I was 4 years of age. He was always very inspirational and motivational. This is a great leader with an intelligent mindset. His well articulated messaging is great.
He is a great speaker, he got a nobel peace prize even after starting multiple wars and for not ending a single one... People are easily manipulated by words...
From Europe (EU): Trump said 6 years ago that we needed to pay the agreed 2% for defense.... The EU collectively said he was nuts, and said he was out to destroy the alliance. They signed NEW deals with Putin, to increase dependance on Russian gas, and EU political leaders left office to go work for russian gas companies..... All while the media said Trump was working for Moscow. Remember?
Obama is criminal who killed cca 5000 civilians in third world countries(including many, many children). He did it via drone strikes . Disgusting man !!!
If hyp0crite Obama, apologized for 1 middle East Muslim civilian drone victim each day it would take 3 years. During his presidency, 20000 bombs dropped in middle East. Shame on you for talking about human rights
Russia and United States are two countries that are actively challenging the international law. The US has set dangerous precedents by invading Iraq and Yugoslavia without UN authorization and by orchestrating support from a coalition of Western countries for the secession of Kosovo from Serbia. Russia has taken advantage of these precedents to assert its sphere of influence through the use of force in Georgia and Ukraine. The recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia was a mirrored response to the Kosovo case. Separation of Crimea (based on the Kosovo scenario) occurred when it became clear that Russia would no longer be able to influence Ukraine's internal politics after the change of power in Kyiv in 2014.
Not QUITE equivalent though, are they? (And I don’t know when US invaded Yugoslavia?) You can say what you like about Iraq, but at least the Americans tried as much as possible to avoid civilian casualties. Russia does not care the slightest for the thousands of innocent people it is killing in Ukraine, or the children it is abducting from their parents.
@@-_XD Agreed, everyone is focused on articulation instead of what really matters, they'd let obama talk his way into fucking their own kids if they could have the chance, it's honestly pathetic how sweet talking/good "feely" type actors wiggle their way into the system for THEIR own gain, I don't think anyone has been a president to do good for the American people.
Incredibly eloquent performance by Obama here. Sometimes you have to be a bit sad that presidents can only sit in office for two terms. I think that if the Obama of today, that we heard here, could run for office and be president another term, a lot of people would gladly cast their vote for him. He sounds relaxed, witty and cunning and with the oratory skills of a master speaker.
He’s a muslim communist, if you look at his history and inclinations properly. He’s a suave speaker and has received the most farce Nobel Peace Prize till date. Other than that, he’s just an okay leader. Nothing special.
They do have leaders in preparation but right now the defeat of putin is so so important. This Maga gop supports putin, 70 percent of gop have said they would stop supporting ukraine if they came into power effectively give ukraine to putin which would be a disaster . Also they would dismantle Nato. Democracy will end in America if the gop get back into Power under trump
As long as there's a Arrogant Germany in Europe there will always be War.Everyone knows that is part of the Problem, Wanting to play with the Big Players.
With car costs putting replacement vehicles out of the question. This potentially will eventually have an adverse effect on showing, traveling logistics altogether. Also national public transit has tightened its belt, and seems to still be doing so, because of inflation, and budgets. I see full service Bus and train stations vanishing, &/ or downsizing. This is not often noticed initially, as there's still a huge private vehicle culture, but as one fall though the safety net of the private vehicle culture, the above becomes much more apparent. Thank you.
Civil War is being fought by people from the Great Britian And England here in America. This war has been going on quietly for over the past fifty years. The U.S BIGGEST Mistake is allowing too many foreigners inside the U.S Government. The U.S is currently Under seige, so how are we able to provide over $70 Billion to the Ukraine when they're unable to raise the debt ceiling and address other domestic issues with the U.S?
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Honestly politicians have started using comparisons to Putin to deal with problems they rather not talk about. It's not like if Putin didn't exist they would compare anyone to them.
I liked Obama a lot. In my opinion, the best presidents of the past 30-40yrs, starting with the old Bush. Though all the good things he did was annulled by two major mistakes: not supporting Ukraine in 2014 and not pardoning Snowden. Both are historical mistakes that can not be forgiven for someone like Obama.
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Obama was supposed to end the wars in the middle east, he didn't end Afghanistan, in fact he doubled down on it. Obamas failures in the economy are massive, his policies coming out of the great recession ruined many many Americans lives, whilst he allowed Wall Street to get richer, while they failed at their own jobs and deserved to be living in the poor house. Obama was naïve and a weak leader, people will blame McConnell for Obamas lack of legislative wins but it takes a statesman to pass legislation, Obama wasn't one. He is a failed president. Obama was just another extension of the failed policies pushed by both parties in the Clinton economics era, he allowed American intellectual property and know how in manufacturing to be stolen by China. What a disgrace the last 24 years have been since Clinton allowed PNTR for China. China should have never been allowed preferential trade status, it has destroyed our industrial base, our pride, and has been an insult to any hard working American that deserved better. Clintons deregulation of the financial markets, along with gutting American manufacturing were a major contributing factor to the 08 financial collapse. Good riddance to these pathetic leaders, and thank god Biden has the balls to say F you to China. I hate to say it, but Trump actually ended up doing some good, by at least making everyone pay attention to what was going on with China and the failed Globalist policies Clinton created. Globalism has been a massive failure, if Biden listens to his voters and puts an end to it, god bless him.
I stopped watching when she said Russia's illegal invasion. This just gonna be another propaganda interview, besides, Obama said Biden did a good job, how can somebody who does not have a clue about anything do a good job?
3:43 “ “ I think it was a wake-up call” Who recalls the election debate between Mit Romney and Obama where Romney was expressing his concern about Putin and Obama dismissed it, claiming radical Islam was of a greater threat. Who knows how the US would have reacted in 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea had Romney been President.
@@dennischiu272As I said “ who knows”. The point I was trying to make was that Romney was accurate in his assessment of Putin. Of course questioning historical outcomes with “what if” is pointless, but another outcome I would like to know is would the accursed man Trump have taken over the GOP if Romney been successful?
@@mitseraffej5812 Obama was right, Russia was and is a regional power and is not a threat to the US. Mitt Romney was just playing on Soviet memories to rile up voters and it didn't work. Obama started the beginning of pivoting to Asia, because China is the next threat. Had Romney got in and started some war with Russia over Crimea and poured massive resources into Ukraine, in addition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, no one would care who won, cause both the US and Russia would have squandered their resources and we would be talking about China being the sole superpower in an accelerated timeline because the US chose to fight 3 wars at same time.
I remembered that debate. And at the time, radicals were the priority. ISIS was born not long after that. So, yeah Romney was right to be distrustful of Putin, but in terms of priority, Obama was also right. And given the circumstance, President Romney would have done the same - sanctions. And Crimea would have still been annexed. No US President is sending troops to stop Russia from annexing Crimea. And that was what it was going to take. The other option would local resistance.
@@dennischiu272 Obama abandoned plans to deploy a U.S. missile defense system in Poland and other countries facing Russia, which Putin interpreted as a sign of weakness from the US and NATO. I don't think Romney would have done that, for instance.
That is a ignorant dumb comment, age has NOTHING to do with understanding struggles of being poor. Experience and knowledge do. And a president who knows how economics work unlike the dumbed down gen Z Americans who are the dumbest generation ever in US history.
Wake up call occurred when Russia invaded Crimea. When that call happened Obama just turned off the alarm, removed the batteries, unplugged the alarm from the socket and went right back to sleep.
wake up call happened when America invaded Iraq and Afghanistan, now the world shall enjoy.
what are you going to do when your opponent has nuclear weapons and has been telling the world it's willing to use them since the 60's? That NATO is helping now and russia hasn't used a nuke is the wake up call, it was all saber rattling all along and yeah we may now know that but hindsight is 50/50.
That's Biden and Russians citizens with their social media victimization....
Obama would have been more grounded and taking action by not interfering into something that might grab the attention and CUT THE SHIT THAT IS HAPPENING IN OTHER COUNTRIES THAT CNN DOESN'T REPORT....
TRUMP IS CRAZY AND CAN CAUSE PROBLEMS
He was busy exporting his democracy n Libya and Syria
Real talk!
I remember when Obama made fun of Mitt Romney for saying Russia was the biggest geopolitical threat and every democrat laughed.
It still isn't. In which way does it threaten the US? None. China is your biggest threat.
Because China is!!
People can be wrong. Look at Trump. He's been wrong about everything.
@@kimberley1449 If I had to live under a dictator I would take Xi over Putin.
@@jasongreene6311Except Trump was right that Europe should spend more on their military, and that they should rely less on Russian energy.
I’ve just noticed that Obama got older this tells how fast time flies
I thought the same.
Obama and Merkel did not stand up to putin. Your vision was poor.The line kept creeping west and this was yet another one of your red lines you failed
How would you have wanted them to stand up?
Obama and Merkel failed in 2014 and basically allowed Putin to do what he wants
@@MB-dq2gzObama orchestrated the so-called reset with Russia, arguably prompting Putin to annex Crimea in 2014. Meanwhile, Merkel (alongside Sarkozy) twisted Urkaine's arm to sign the flawed Minsk agreement, just to immediately reward Russia by creating Nord Stream 2. Western appeasement at its worst.
@@MB-dq2gz bro never answered you
@@voidmusicpromo His brain may have overrided. I was genuinely curious about his opinion which he seemed to consider was better than U.S and Germany elected officials, but apparently it extended only to sound bites he heard someone else say. 🙄
Ukraine conducted the Dunkirk operation in Crimea in 2014 because the battle was lost before it started. And in Donbas, the Ukrainian army alone stopped the Russian troops near Debaltsevo in 2014-2015, the West did not help in any way. It was the result of Obama's personal inaction.
Very true! Of all western leader, Obama is the most guilty of current genocide!
The same is going on with Armenia. Armenians had their Velvet revolution in 2018, signaling a move away from Russia towards Europe and democratic rule. The US and Europe not only didn't help, they poured money into the despotic regime of Azerbaijan under Trump to supposedly strengthen it against Iran and Russia. Instead, Azerbaijan double crosseed the West by snuffing out democratic self-rule in Nagorno Karabakh and attacking Armenia, after which it signed a bilateral security treaty with Russia the week before Russia invaded Ukraine! Now, Azerbaijan is happily selling Russian oil as Azeri oil, helping the Russians bypass sanctions. Armenia was where Russia practiced before it invaded Ukraine. Armenia has yet to get any help from the West.
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@8088I Still believe that the Russian Collusion in 2016 was real?
Gell-Mann Amnesia much.
Obama was much younger when I last saw him on TH-cam with Bear Grylls. Time flies.
All makeup
His mind is sharp, that is what matters.
@@42much1 He's my bet for 2024! 😁
The anti christ can change age quickly.
@@chrillex91 Yeah, you're right I noticed that too. It's the hair. 😊
Still looking good and young.
Of course
No one cares about his looks… It’s his fault (he couldn’t confront Putin then) but now he denies it…
why can’t he just admit his mistakes? It’s obvious that it was the annexation of Crimea and the inaction of the United States in 2014 that led to a full-scale invasion
Who tf asks the US to poke nose in other countries's affairs?🤡
@@SLavaluChinang5...that's what makes america great!! America wudnt have been known if it cud have been sitting on its ass acting like its minding its business...even on a personal level if you wanna get known get out there! Reach out!! Let your character, talents known, sitting on your couch and waving to your neighbour n passing by won't help
I was taught that Democracy is always a work in progress to keep trying to make it better. You can't just sit back and be lazy about living in a democratic country, it will always need work to make it better for everyone.
How can you say that? Do you live in a democracy? I assume you're north-american
The man who said don't underestimate Joe's ability to mess thing's up is here saying Biden has done well....
My thoughts exactly.
Joebama no doubt taking orders from Obomber 3.0
5:36 The Donbas area of Ukraine is like Crimea, predominantly ethnic Russians too.
The difference is that the Donbas is where all the rich agricultural lands and other industries are, which made up around 80% of Ukraine's former GDP.
FYI, Russia annexed the Donbas in September of 2022, it's now part of Russia.
He’s done as good as he can when we have a government so divided that nothing ever gets done
US Embassies out of Europe.
Oh, another troll. Generic name followed by four digits. So easy to spot.
Wth is he hallucinating about??
Would have been nice if he had enforced the Budapest Memorandum when Putin invaded Crimea in 2014.
We never have gotten into this situation.
*Russia🇷🇺 still occupied oblast Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Kherson, Crimea.*
Russia must end occupation & Keep peace
I don't dislike Obama but he liked to do things his own way too often and he DROPPED the ball on Putin. It was always obvious Putin did not respect him and this weakness lead to the present.
Good thing we’re a Constitutional Republic!
So well-spoken as usual, but his answer on why he didn't do more to confront Russia when Putin invaded Crimea didn't really make sense if you follow closely. I think he knows he and others should have done more.
I should have done less, not more, i.e. not to overthrow a democratically elected Ukranian president.
Yea he was a naive moron when it came to dealing with Russia and China. Really pretty pathetic overall that he did not listen to Biden on these topics when he had a VP that knew what the game was really about. I think he is a failed president overall. 3 failed presidents in row. Clinton, Bush, then Obama.... 24 years of failed globalist economic policies that sold our country to China for nothing, and weakened our standing on the international stage against clear adversaries in Russia and China. Pathetic. Not to mention he seems completely unwilling to admit that he did not do enough to strengthen NATO and help Ukraine. Arrogant. Ukraine wanted Javelins back then... enough said, now they have them and look what they have done with them.
Agree, they thought appeasing would stop putin
You do more..go fight yourself a war between Russian speaking people in Russian backyard!!!
they know is all fake, a media show.
"Ukraine is vital." Then why did you refuse to help arm them and, in doing so, send a message to Russia that they were on the menu?
Obama Obama! this guy has a rare skill to make his futile arguments not only sound plausible but believable too. I can't fall for that
He created the issue because he didn’t put a stop in Syria,they crossed the red line.And nothing happened.Putin saw the weakness just like now.Weak admiration again
I regret having voted for this smooth talker, twice!
So who cares about rising prices and inflation as long as the African American unemployment rate goes down 🙄
Obama's lack of "drawing the Redline" on Russia attacking Ukraine back in 2014 is why we are all here now ... appeasement does not work no matter WHO is President against DicK Taters .... and I support Obama .. just to be clear ..
I hear that, but the root cause was appeasement and pro-Russian choices by the big European partners Germany, France and Italy. Especially Germany with Nord Stream 2 going on even after annexation of Crimea. For the US, it wasnt worth a split of the NATO coalition. But again these are conclusions afterwards, nobody expected the grandpa to go all in.
you are a really crappy troll
@@bastaardzmuller It's also Putin's fault for illegally eating at Ukraine's territory in the first place. We need to give that dictator more credit for his crimes not just blaming ourselves. Ignoring what that dictator and his irredentist, fascist policies have done is tomfoolery.
@@awallner1 Can’t agree more. Putin triggered a democratic backsliding from the beginning. In the grand scheme of democracy versus dictatorship history has already proven the likely outcome.
So what's your thought on MAGA wanting to end support for Ukraine today?
Yes, he good at talking just isn't saying much.
The old way of thinking.
"Big countries cannot do what they want to small countries "
He actually said those words without hesitation. As long as American politicians keep hiding the hegemony the US has around the world, and American citizens keep ignoring stories that provide evidence of the abuse of power we have over other countries to take their resources and control their governments, things wont improve and the weight of all the lies, betrayals and manipulation we've practiced around the world will one day crush us.
lol, sure ivan on youtube made in USA.
@@meatrealwishesAsk people from Yemen how they feel about this dude.
I mean let’s not forget what he did three days into his presidency
BIG OR SMALL IS NO ESCUSE FOR INSANITIES!
MY ALWAYS WAY OF THINKING
I Can barely listen to his lies. You spoke that so perfectly. Sadly too many people listen to this bs and don't research it for themselves. This is 3 months ago, he is talking all around himself because he is full of lies. WE NOW HAVE THE OBIDEN ADMIN, and a divided people who have no clue what this guy did to libya.
TOTAL BS!!! There is no reason we need to be involved in protecting another country's border when we don't protect our own border.
Stoppod listening when he said inflation primarily from war in Ukraine & energy prices. Blatant lie, it was the Fed expanding the money supply by 30% and he would know that.
Voted for him twice. Best president of my lifetime.
Damn Obviously you do not know much about anything... If this was really the best Is president of your life don't vote anymore...
I am a democrat but he lost me when he and Merkel pretend they did what Ukraine required in 2014 …
100%. The cowered to Putin and were fools.
US was obliged to defend Ukraine under Budapest Agreement but didn’t and Merkel is cut from the same DDR cloth as Vlad
Tbf, Ukraine was still a shitshow in 2014. They made some strides, though not nearly enough, to combat corruption in the years after, but until Zelensky's government showed Everest-sized balls by refusing to leave Kiev and calling for more ammo, the western powers were anticipating Ukraine to fold to invasion in a matter of weeks.
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I’ll translate your gaslight speak:
Democrat = Russian propagandist
There. Now everyone can reread your comments more accurately.
Your mindset is so imperialist. You represent a mindset propagated by Hollywood.
The truth is: the more you interfere regionally, the more wars and bigger wars there are, thus more deaths. Improve your own defense, don’t interfere with others. Listen when a country raised their own concerns to you and never ever ignore it, esp if that nation is a Nuclear power that has more nukes than you and your Allies.
When US interfered with Ukraine’s politics and provided weapons to Ukraine pre-war, this had escalated the situation. And, this is In addition to dishonoring both verbal and written agreements by the west and Ukraine, as advised by US. Furthermore, when US influential military subcontractors Think Tank publish study on “how to weaken Russia” by disintegrating them into smaller nations so US-NATO can easily control them, ofc, it will make Russia worry.
Russia has been feeling insecure, and as a proof, they have been asking for Security Guarantee for themselves. But US has been too boastful and ignored it, at the expense of a smaller nation Ukraine and Ukrainians’ lives.
What do you wish Obama want to do? fight Russia? Regardless of who wins in a direct fight between US and Russia, some of US cities will be incinerated, esp since, accdg to US military reports, Russia has a better modern hypersonic missiles than US, that cannot be shoot down by US defense equipment.
My questions:
In the last years that US have been the only superpower, how many wars did it started regionally? 😂
Is US truly Democratic country? Why do you keep demonizing Russia, when they conduct elections too? Do all nations have to adapt an American style democracy and everyone else which do not are evil?
“The analysis of 1,779 recent policy outcomes found that “economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy,” while average citizens “have little or no independent influence. In other words, the U.S. is an oligarchy: a system of government where a small number of elites rule. Everyone else? Not so much.”(Represent Us, 2023)
Ukrainian here. I realy like Obama, I think he is a nice person, but his decisions on Ukraine in 2014 were catastrophic. When Ukraine needed weapons and other military support the most, first thing we got were American MREs. MREs! The artillery radars we got in 2015 to counter russian artillery in Debaltsevo were programmed not to work to its full capacity. The intelligence information we got from Pentagon, was always somewhat too late.
I respect Obama and choice of American people, but he deserves a lot of critics on the ukrainian topic.
I agree.
If he would have given Ukraine military support many would have called him foolish and starting a war. He had his hands tied by Republicans many Democrats would have viewed him as a war hawk.
@@RH-bp7st It was his job to define a leadership position and rally people towards what would have been right. I think he is a failure, from not pulling out of Afghanistan like he said he would do, to weakening the US in trade against China. I voted for him to make serious change after Bush, he just continued the same path.
Ythank joe and Obama
@@RH-bp7stexactly m! He was already labeled the Drone death king 😂
And wanted to leave his legacy mostly
Also supply by proxy would have created more of a vacuum effect in that area
This is the man (who I voted for twice) who said to Mitt Romney in a debate when I said Russia was a threat that “the Cold War wants their national policy back” or something like that.
@@PiranhasinaCrackerbarrel-pj8jx Russia before the Ukraine war was easily the 2nd most powerful military on earth.
What about the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008? That's where it started, not 2014. Who pushed the 'reload' button with Russia right after 2008?
It is you who created this crisis in Ukraine
Why Doesn't Obama run again? He would win !!!!!!
Russian people have always lived in Crimea, it is strange that only now everyone has begun to realize this.
i do not believe you crimea tartar are muslim only terrorist putin put lots of russian in crimea watch and read history of crimea hello
Well, other ethnic groups also lived in Crimea. Russians have forcibly settled everywhere, but that doesn't mean these regions have to be part of the Russian Federation, or that Russians have to be given any special rights in these regions.
@@mmitleidt7969 Do you know anything about Crimea?
You know that under Ukraine in Crimea there was only 1 state language, even though most of the Crimea is the people of the Crimean Tatars, Ukraine did not give them the right to officially consider their language as the state language.
Now there are 3 official languages in Crimea from Russia! Three!
The Russians did not forcibly settle anywhere, it was the Ukrainians who seized everything there, ask any inhabitant of the Crimea, he will tell you how the Ukrainians in Ukraine seized other people's houses, built private beaches and gangsterized business.
Russians lived there in the 14th century! This is a historical Russian land.
As for Ukraine, it has no land of its own at all. The state came into existence in 1991. Until that moment, these were the Russian lands of the Soviet Union.
@@sergeysergeev7564 Historically, ethnic Russians first appear countably in Crimea in the 18th century. It was not until the 19th and 20th centuries that the majority of Crimea's population was ethnically Russian. Anyone can ask themselves how it was possible for the Russians to spread there so quickly. It certainly didn't go without bloodshed. So, historically Crimea is not Russian at all.
What you say about the official language is complete nonsense, anyone can read that in the 1998 Constitution of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
And the Russian Federation, which came into existance in 1990, is not the USSR and thus has no claims to anything that was formerly part of the USSR. Anyone who wants to live in the Russian Federation is welcome to emigrate there.
Wrong! Stalin brought 'russians' to Crimea in 1920's - 1930's mostly Mordva ethnicity and as far as my parents remember Mordva did not like Crimea at first - different climate. So shut up about so called 'have always lived'.
A Great President Barack Obama ❤❤❤
always
0:30 Barack Hussein Obama administration caused this war in Ukraine 🇺🇦 2008-2012 and 2013-2016 0:42 African American and Mexican American are 2 different cultures ethnicities of the United States 🇺🇸 We are a nation of mix culture's in the states.
he looks 80 when hes only 61..... putin even looks younger than him, despite 10 years older than him
His speech looks good, until I remember what he did with Libya. Democrats and Republicans are not so differents when it's about Foreign policy, USA still have this Manifest Destiny and Cold War mentality. That's why the periphery of capitalism are being neutral in the this conflict. Like Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
US have one of the most strongest democracies on the planet.Much respect and greetings from Athens Hellenic republic.
*Who bombed Yugoslavia? Who invaded Afghanistan, Iran , libya and Syria ?😂*
*Hussien Obama : not me , not us*
0:05 Pres. Obama doesn't address Joe Biden's age.
0:26 Pres. Obama does not address Biden's shockingly low approval among minorities. Instead, he says there will be no serious primary challenge to Joe Biden.
1:02 There actually is a huge split between actual leftists (not liberals) and the Democratic Party.
3:34 "Recent memory' must not include the dismantling of Yugoslavia.
3:50 "The old ways of thinking: might makes right, big countries can do what they want to small countries, that people cannot independently determine their futures." Doesn't this statement apply overwhelmingly more to the United than to any ten other countries?
4:10 [watching the Ukrainians fighting the Russians] reminded Europe of who they were." Ex nazi collaborators that hate Russia.
4:39 "...willy-nilly, determine the borders of other countries." Like Kosovo, perhaps (not a country).
5:43 Thank you, Barack, Crimea was indeed populated by Russians.
6:40 Pres. Obama explains the timeline of political change and militarization with Ukraine from 2014 coup d'etat to the Russian invasion. He leaves out who was pushing these changes (the US, point person Victoria Nuland) and who the key actors representing US interests in Ukrainian society were (Azov, Svoboda, Right Sector, and other "far-right nationalist" -- I'm being polite -- organizations that had been American covert assets within Ukraine since the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945.
Got to say, President Obama seems less and less like the man I voted for twice with each passing year.
On the other hand, if a president cannot change the social/political order - as he often admitted he could not do without popular mass movements demanding change - he did a fine job of defending US interests abroad (global domination through military aggression, subversion, subornation, de-stabilization. economic warfare, overthrow, debt peonage, and terrorism) and at home (rewarding Wall Street criminals for their economic crimes and their near destruction of the world economy, helping the 1% to double their share of GDP yet again, allowing American businesses and private assets to be gobbled up by fewer and fewer monopolistic corporations).
He talks well, but he did nothing to prevent this war from happening back in 2014 when he had the chance. His inactivity during the annexation of Crimea encouraged Putin to invade Ukraine (his response to why he did nothing was unconvincing).
Everything we do has consequences, whether is bad or good depends on what we see. Even when we think we do something right, doesn't mean it won't go wrong. Future is unpredictable.
@@donovan8747 That is true, but past behaviour is what we use to predict the future. It is clear that when you allow a bully or dictator to get away with it once, in the hope they will stop there, does not work. They inevitably use weakness to get more.
@@donovan8747 Romney predicted the danger of Russia in 2012. What did Obama say about it?
I’m glad he was our president
Sold America to china
A man comes from nowhere and enslaved you to fear. You should do your diligence. I mean he is the reason phosphorus munitions are illegal. And Christians are being watched. I would watch the idol Christians too. They never make up for their debt. Aka sin. They rob Peter to pay Paul
Theories are for fakes. I'm a realist. Bush administration all of them brought (terrorism) to America. How. Would you not seek vengeance if Russia showed up here and left their trash bombs after murdering thousands In an air raid. And see today (all is being seen) I would hunt me down too. But see I'm not a murder!. Just know my own story of past lives!!!.
Stop being so gullible.
How is that Obamacare working for you?
@@harrylazard805 lmao right, that free phone their handing out to (imagination as tracking device too) 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Remember when Obama whispered in Medvedev's ear on a hot mic moment that "he would have more flexibility" after the U.S. election? And Medvedev responded that he would relay the message to Putin? Too bad Obama didnt have a wake-up call moment when he was bargaining with our security and future.
So??? U hate the Clinton’s for enabling china as well??
You mean Medvedev? Lol
@@ErenYega747 as my wife often says, you knew what I meant...ha!
4:55 Start of Q&A on Crimea.
Obama makes a key distinction between the 2014 invasion of Crimea and the ongoing invasion. When the main invasion began in February 2022, many in both the West and in Russia believed it would play out similarly to Crimea, with Ukraine proper quickly capitulating. Ukranian morale in resisting the 2022 invasion was a key reason the West was able to build such a strong coalition around Ukraine's defense.
@dennischlu272, The only distinction that matters is that none of this would be happening if Trump was president.
@@harryfarber6435why?
Yes, why?
@@harryfarber6435 Precisely: Trump would not have been able to muster as strong an international coalition to defend Ukraine, if one at all. He is on record as a critic of NATO and a pro-Russia apologist, and owes his 2016 victory in part to Russian interference in his favor.
Or did you mean that, according to sources named Trump, Trump would never have allowed Putin to invade Ukraine because of how no one is smarter, more politically experienced, and better at making deals than he is? Also, you can copy/paste people's names when reply to them; I know you painstakingly typed it out because you put the i as an l.
True. God help those who help themselves. Ukraine has set an excellent example.🇺🇦
Obama!!! Tell yer pal Biden to give Ukraine F-16s
Don't worry, he tells Brandon what to do every day...
and you think Russian will sit down and do nothing, the more deadly weapon you supply to ukraine, the more russia become aggressive
Some don't agree lest it be sold to any highest bidder thereafter.
@@user-bo8nb2mi The voice of a Putin Appeaser.. There is no Free World if the likes of you are running the show.
Whatever he/they did back in 2014 was clearly not enough
💙Obama 🇺🇸
Yes We Can!
Most well spoken president in recent history
Iam an independent but lean more republican and think he was the best president in modern times.
@@randyg.7940An absolute puppet to the central bankers. His name isn't even Barack Obama, it's Barry Soetoro or something.
@randyg.7940 What exactly did he do. Just a question.
@@Eddie-bu6uu Made health insurance unaffordable.
So your attack on Iraq was not an alarm for any countries.....??? As ever, it is the basic prerequisite for a US man to speak double stand
The former president is a good speaker, as far as President Biden, I’m mixed. I approve of his handling of Ukraine, I disagree with his handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan. So he’s pretty much a wash as far as his actions. That said, I’m a republican, I wouldn’t vote for the narcissist trump if you paid me. I hope the we get some solid candidates for the next election.
It's funny when a l i be r al d im w it tries to make you believe he's a republican, lol....
His handling of Ukraine is getting thousands killed. He stopped all peace deals and he has lost his proxy war he provoked, Wasted over 100 billion American tax payers dollars. My God Wake Up!
What do you think of Kamala Harris? Good/Bad/ Mixed? Is she ready?
@@mikefox8176 Ready for what? She’s the dumbest most incompetent VP in US history. My God women like Kristi Noem, Tulsi Gabber, are intelligent.
What a great, intelligent, eloquent man and greatest president I've been alive to know and I wish he was still my president, history will be good to him, Trump will go down as worse president in history, too bad the GOP can't see it and history won't be kind to them either. Love you Obama
You are the last one to talk about democracy Mr Obama
I Love USA American Best President Barack Obama and Family ❤❤❤
God bless American 🇺🇸
What is happening today with Ukraine is the result of his foreign policy in Syria. He showed US weakness to all Arabian and African countries by not intervening to defend Syrians against their dictator and Iranian and Russian associates.
I keep hearing them call it an illegal invasion. Someone tell me what a legal invasion is? I’m pretty sure Iraq and Afghanistan didn’t consent to the US invading them. I’m pretty sure that Syria didn’t consent to Americans finding a rebellion and sending troops to help the rebels. I’m pretty sure Lybia didn’t consent to the US and EU bombing them to support the rebels. So please someone tell me what a legal invasion is?
Congratulations 🇺🇸♥️🇺🇸 Happy American President, thank You Mr President Barack Obama, and Family🇺🇸 God for everything We love You God bless American 🇺🇸
His foreign policy was the worst since trump.
America please vote for a president who hasn’t been indicted for criminal crimes.
You mean the fake criminal endictments. Everyone should be concerned about what is going on Republicans and Democrats.
The economy is working for the greedy only not for the people.
President Obama was the new Democratic American speaker when I was 4 years of age. He was always very inspirational and motivational. This is a great leader with an intelligent mindset. His well articulated messaging is great.
Delusion from illusion.
I recall in grade school we had a big assembly to watch the inaugural. Well-spoken and optimistic vision for America.
He is a great speaker, he got a nobel peace prize even after starting multiple wars and for not ending a single one... People are easily manipulated by words...
*Who invaded Afghanistan, Iran , libya and Syria ?😂*
*Hussien Obama : not me , not me*
You say one thing, but do the opposite. How many small countries you invaded in the name of democracy? Shame on American people and allies.
Calling Obama a disappointment is kind at this point. Huge foreign policy failure. And the complete lack of accountability is shocking
From Europe (EU): Trump said 6 years ago that we needed to pay the agreed 2% for defense.... The EU collectively said he was nuts, and said he was out to destroy the alliance. They signed NEW deals with Putin, to increase dependance on Russian gas, and EU political leaders left office to go work for russian gas companies..... All while the media said Trump was working for Moscow. Remember?
Yes, they want freedom!! Make America 🇺🇸 great again!!!
Man, I miss Obama, a true leader!
Obama is criminal who killed cca 5000 civilians in third world countries(including many, many children). He did it via drone strikes . Disgusting man !!!
Take him home
If hyp0crite Obama, apologized for 1 middle East Muslim civilian drone victim each day it would take 3 years. During his presidency, 20000 bombs dropped in middle East. Shame on you for talking about human rights
@@ingrid4587you mean alla...?
@@TRUMP-2024-MAGA 🤡
Russia and United States are two countries that are actively challenging the international law. The US has set dangerous precedents by invading Iraq and Yugoslavia without UN authorization and by orchestrating support from a coalition of Western countries for the secession of Kosovo from Serbia. Russia has taken advantage of these precedents to assert its sphere of influence through the use of force in Georgia and Ukraine.
The recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia was a mirrored response to the Kosovo case. Separation of Crimea (based on the Kosovo scenario) occurred when it became clear that Russia would no longer be able to influence Ukraine's internal politics after the change of power in Kyiv in 2014.
Literally the only sensible, objective comment here
Not QUITE equivalent though, are they? (And I don’t know when US invaded Yugoslavia?) You can say what you like about Iraq, but at least the Americans tried as much as possible to avoid civilian casualties. Russia does not care the slightest for the thousands of innocent people it is killing in Ukraine, or the children it is abducting from their parents.
@@-_XD Agreed, everyone is focused on articulation instead of what really matters, they'd let obama talk his way into fucking their own kids if they could have the chance, it's honestly pathetic how sweet talking/good "feely" type actors wiggle their way into the system for THEIR own gain, I don't think anyone has been a president to do good for the American people.
USA didn’t invite Yugoslavia Dipshit NATO called for it Because the Serbs we’re killing people in Kosovo is its own independent country
True that
Incredibly eloquent performance by Obama here. Sometimes you have to be a bit sad that presidents can only sit in office for two terms. I think that if the Obama of today, that we heard here, could run for office and be president another term, a lot of people would gladly cast their vote for him. He sounds relaxed, witty and cunning and with the oratory skills of a master speaker.
Yeah.. like we haven’t had enough ideologies shoved down are throats. Please no.
@@austins19982found the MAGAT
@@teenytinytoons typical democrat. Assuming everyone with opposing opinions supports trump. God you watch the news to much. Do real research
Yeah, no thanks. I had a good opinion of him, but that's why Washington took the initiative for 2 terms. It's a slippery slope.
He’s a muslim communist, if you look at his history and inclinations properly. He’s a suave speaker and has received the most farce Nobel Peace Prize till date. Other than that, he’s just an okay leader. Nothing special.
Biggest challenge for Joe Biden has been to stand up straight and not fall 😢. We seriously need younger presidents.
Will Joe fall again before 2024 election?
It's sad that the dems don't have leaders coming through the ranks
They do have leaders in preparation but right now the defeat of putin is so so important. This Maga gop supports putin, 70 percent of gop have said they would stop supporting ukraine if they came into power effectively give ukraine to putin which would be a disaster . Also they would dismantle Nato. Democracy will end in America if the gop get back into Power under trump
The ex-community organizer needs to give back the Nobel Prize !
Obama is the only time I did not believe in two term limits.
From the guy who drew a red line and then let Russia cake walk across it into Syria.
C'mon Obama - it's a bit late to be saying this isn't it?
As a black man I wished I never voted for this guy.
As long as there's a Arrogant Germany in Europe there will always be War.Everyone knows that is part of the Problem, Wanting to play with the Big Players.
Never was a Nobel Peace Prize so undeserved.
The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline rose eight cents since last week to $3.66 due to the rise in oil prices
Thank a democrat for rising gas and food....
Due to Brandon being in office...
So within a few cents of what gas prices were on the eve of the 2022 invasion. This is a non-issue.
get a bicycle
@@johncox9461 you are a really crappy troll
You can never take freedom for granted and can never let your guard down. If you do, then you'll loose it! Ukraine is the perfect example.
With car costs putting replacement vehicles out of the question. This potentially will eventually have an adverse effect on showing, traveling logistics altogether. Also national public transit has tightened its belt, and seems to still be doing so, because of inflation, and budgets.
I see full service Bus and train stations vanishing, &/ or downsizing. This is not often noticed initially, as there's still a huge private vehicle culture, but as one fall though the safety net of the private vehicle culture, the above becomes much more apparent. Thank you.
Civil War is being fought by people from the Great Britian And England here in America. This war has been going on quietly for over the past fifty years. The U.S BIGGEST Mistake is allowing too many foreigners inside the U.S Government. The U.S is currently Under seige, so how are we able to provide over $70 Billion to the Ukraine when they're unable to raise the debt ceiling and address other domestic issues with the U.S?
Blech Government Spending is the number one issue that is driving this. His generation spent ten generations of wealth.
United we are strong.✌💙
Devider in Chief
"Never underestimate the ability of Joe Biden to f*** things up." - Barack Obama
« Just watch me » Joe Biden
Obama actually thinks Biden can make an argument???😆
OOOO, a REAL President!
Obama probably don’t even know what democracy mean.
I'm his supporter and I've never invaded the capitol.
Damn, he is articulate.
No he's not ? 🤣🤣
no he,s not?
God bless you all family
Very intelligent explanation
Full of lies
This is Obama. It always sounds so damn smart, but unfortunately it's not. What he says about Ukraine is complete nonsense.
Remember Democracy & $Capitalim work, is progress for our civilization, and the entire world, most amazing invention, innovative ideas , arrived by USA. Including this internet.
full of lies
Honestly politicians have started using comparisons to Putin to deal with problems they rather not talk about. It's not like if Putin didn't exist they would compare anyone to them.
President Xi, The Myanmar govt, the Saudi govt, North Korean Govt, Syria's Bashar Al Assad, there's plenty more.
@@mrbaywatch21Saudi Arab is no longer good becouse they are neutral and independed now😂😂😂western peope will never change
I liked Obama a lot. In my opinion, the best presidents of the past 30-40yrs, starting with the old Bush. Though all the good things he did was annulled by two major mistakes: not supporting Ukraine in 2014 and not pardoning Snowden. Both are historical mistakes that can not be forgiven for someone like Obama.
how is it possible that Obama can read a situation so wrong.
6:16 omg the faces the interviewer pulls are hilarious
And not a single question about NATO expansion .. Amnesia State of America
No-Drama Obama. Let’s listen to him.
I as a veteran and Swede are sorry that we blamed the war on USA and England when we as a people in Scandinavia made war to in Afghanistan but called it peace...
Sorry, indeed. BjørnErikNilsson veteran, nurse and Scandinavian..
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I'm speechless. Even Obama's hand gestures are more intelligent than trumps.
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obama is corrupt. so u just go on support a "man" , who wants to destroy USA
Obama was supposed to end the wars in the middle east, he didn't end Afghanistan, in fact he doubled down on it. Obamas failures in the economy are massive, his policies coming out of the great recession ruined many many Americans lives, whilst he allowed Wall Street to get richer, while they failed at their own jobs and deserved to be living in the poor house. Obama was naïve and a weak leader, people will blame McConnell for Obamas lack of legislative wins but it takes a statesman to pass legislation, Obama wasn't one. He is a failed president. Obama was just another extension of the failed policies pushed by both parties in the Clinton economics era, he allowed American intellectual property and know how in manufacturing to be stolen by China. What a disgrace the last 24 years have been since Clinton allowed PNTR for China. China should have never been allowed preferential trade status, it has destroyed our industrial base, our pride, and has been an insult to any hard working American that deserved better. Clintons deregulation of the financial markets, along with gutting American manufacturing were a major contributing factor to the 08 financial collapse. Good riddance to these pathetic leaders, and thank god Biden has the balls to say F you to China. I hate to say it, but Trump actually ended up doing some good, by at least making everyone pay attention to what was going on with China and the failed Globalist policies Clinton created. Globalism has been a massive failure, if Biden listens to his voters and puts an end to it, god bless him.
@@woke...since....yesterdayobama care infrastructure helped americans during the pandemic
@@xl6941 That's because you're a foreigner and you want to push Trump's idiocracy. Dump Trump 🇷🇺, Chris Christie 2024 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Extraordinarily talented and can handle questions at ease.
Yes, Obama = NATO: no actions talk only
I stopped watching when she said Russia's illegal invasion. This just gonna be another propaganda interview, besides, Obama said Biden did a good job, how can somebody who does not have a clue about anything do a good job?
3:43 “ “ I think it was a wake-up call”
Who recalls the election debate between Mit Romney and Obama where Romney was expressing his concern about Putin and Obama dismissed it, claiming radical Islam was of a greater threat.
Who knows how the US would have reacted in 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea had Romney been President.
What exactly do you see Romney doing in 2014 that Obama couldn't? What action by the US ends in Ukraine keeping Crimea?
@@dennischiu272As I said “ who knows”. The point I was trying to make was that Romney was accurate in his assessment of Putin.
Of course questioning historical outcomes with “what if” is pointless, but another outcome I would like to know is would the accursed man Trump have taken over the GOP if Romney been successful?
@@mitseraffej5812 Obama was right, Russia was and is a regional power and is not a threat to the US. Mitt Romney was just playing on Soviet memories to rile up voters and it didn't work. Obama started the beginning of pivoting to Asia, because China is the next threat. Had Romney got in and started some war with Russia over Crimea and poured massive resources into Ukraine, in addition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, no one would care who won, cause both the US and Russia would have squandered their resources and we would be talking about China being the sole superpower in an accelerated timeline because the US chose to fight 3 wars at same time.
I remembered that debate. And at the time, radicals were the priority. ISIS was born not long after that. So, yeah Romney was right to be distrustful of Putin, but in terms of priority, Obama was also right.
And given the circumstance, President Romney would have done the same - sanctions. And Crimea would have still been annexed. No US President is sending troops to stop Russia from annexing Crimea. And that was what it was going to take.
The other option would local resistance.
@@dennischiu272 Obama abandoned plans to deploy a U.S. missile defense system in Poland and other countries facing Russia, which Putin interpreted as a sign of weakness from the US and NATO. I don't think Romney would have done that, for instance.
We are united, but next election we want a young leader who can understand the current struggles of being a poor American.
Not gonna happen your empire is crumbling from the outside in, America needs to look after it’s interests abroad.
Fine, I’ll do it. I understand
Obama was young enough to understand that but did nothing for the poor...
That is a ignorant dumb comment, age has NOTHING to do with understanding struggles of being poor. Experience and knowledge do. And a president who knows how economics work unlike the dumbed down gen Z Americans who are the dumbest generation ever in US history.
@@harrylazard805do your research before you spew lies
Putting an ex president that didn't do anything instead of allowing RFK to make his case is sickening.