{"id":1096428,"date":"2021-12-07T21:58:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T02:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1096428"},"modified":"2021-12-07T21:58:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T02:58:35","slug":"pollak-putin-didnt-dare-invade-ukraine-when-puppet-trump-was-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pollak-putin-didnt-dare-invade-ukraine-when-puppet-trump-was-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Pollak: Putin Didn&#039;t Dare Invade Ukraine When &#039;Puppet&#039; Trump Was President"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpollak-putin-didnt-dare-invade-ukraine-when-puppet-trump-was-president%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1096428&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1000143570-e1532121525203.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan tried to look tough Tuesday as he delivered the stern message that President Joe Biden had warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that he might&nbsp;impose economic sanctions if Russia invaded Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan and press secretary Jen Psaki \u2014 whose response to Russian aggression in 2014 was to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/SB10001424052702303380004579523671103622400\">launch<\/a> a hashtag campaign \u2014 stressed the importance of \u201cde-escalation,\u201d of diplomacy over force.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Putin must certainly be shaking in his winter boots.<\/p>\n<p>For four years, Democrats \u2014 including Sullivan, one of the key <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2020\/11\/23\/jake-sullivan-bidens-nsa-pick-tied-to-hillarys-emails-russia-hoax\/\">purveyors<\/a> of the \u201cRussia collusion\u201d hoax \u2014 portrayed President Donald Trump as a \u201cpuppet,\u201d a possible Russian agent who would allow Putin to do whatever he wanted.<\/p>\n<p>Yet it was Trump who sent anti-tank missiles to Ukraine, instead of Obama\u2019s ready-to-eat meals and blankets; it was Trump who launched air strikes on Russia\u2019s proxy, Bashar al-Assad; it was Trump who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2018\/09\/13\/trump-wanted-acknowledge-u-s-forces-killed-russian-mercenaries-syria-his-staff-disagreed\/\">wiped out<\/a> Russian mercenaries in Syria.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Democrats impeached Trump over supposedly withholding aid to Ukraine in exchange for an investigation into Biden\u2019s son, Hunter, who had engaged in shady business deals with a corrupt Ukrainian oil company while his father&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/14\/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad\/\">played<\/a> dumb.<\/p>\n<p>But it was the Biden administration who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/07\/20\/us-ukraine-russia-pipeline-500334\">pressured<\/a> Ukraine to stay quiet about its opposition the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, a threat to Ukraine\u2019s security \u2014 and Europe\u2019s \u2014 that Trump had steadfastly opposed precisely because it empowers Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the man Democrats said Trump tried to bully, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/zelensky-biden-ukraine-russia-nord-stream-pipeline-fe50756b-6b82-43f0-b390-734ea3e95de0.html\">confessed<\/a> in June that Biden had made him both angry and disappointed. He got along just fine with Trump, who understood how to keep Putin in check.<\/p>\n<p>While Trump was in power, America\u2019s rivals and enemies did not dare cross the line. If they did, they risked ending up like Qasem Soleimani, the terrorist Iranian general whom Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2020\/01\/02\/quds-force-leader-qassem-soleimani-blow-iranian-regime\/\">ordered<\/a> killed in a precision operation that Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2020\/01\/02\/biden-on-soleimani-assassination-trump-tossed-a-stick-of-dynamite-into-a-tinderbox\/\">opposed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Biden accused Trump of risking war. But it was precisely because Trump was strong that America did not have to go to war.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Now that a weak, incompetent, and possibly corrupt Biden administration is in office, Putin is prepared to take advantage.<\/p>\n<p>The danger of war is greater than ever \u2014 a war that could force the U.S. to intervene.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats and the foreign policy \u201cexperts\u201d claimed Trump was Putin\u2019s man. Yet under Bush, Obama, and now possibly Biden, Putin did and does what he wants.<\/p>\n<p>We are witnessing the superiority of \u201cpeace through strength,\u201d of the efficacy of an \u201cAmerica first\u201d foreign policy that does not rely on multilateralism and good intentions.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Biden\u2019s ongoing failure will have lasting consequences.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan tried to look tough Tuesday as he delivered the stern message that President Joe Biden had warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that he might\u00a0impose economic &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1096428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}