{"id":1239640,"date":"2022-01-25T15:52:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T20:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1239640"},"modified":"2022-01-25T15:52:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T20:52:31","slug":"watch-jen-psaki-defends-hashtag-diplomacy-on-ukraine-which-failed-in-2014-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-jen-psaki-defends-hashtag-diplomacy-on-ukraine-which-failed-in-2014-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Jen Psaki Defends Hashtag Diplomacy on Ukraine, Which Failed in 2014 Invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fwatch-jen-psaki-defends-hashtag-diplomacy-on-ukraine-which-failed-in-2014-invasion%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=1239640&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\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-25-at-9.40.05-AM-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">White House press secretary Jen Psaki defended the use of Twitter hashtags in the ongoing Ukraine crisis, despite the fact that similar tactics failed to prevent or reverse the Russian invasion of Crimea in Ukraine when Psaki last tried it in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News\u2019 Peter Doocy asked Psaki about a recent tweet by Secretary of State Anthony Blinken with a pro-Ukraine hashtag:<\/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<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StandWithUkraine?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StandWithUkraine<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateDept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@StateDept<\/a> stands with Ukraine. The United States stands with Ukraine. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7Vj0amAf22\">https:\/\/t.co\/7Vj0amAf22<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecBlinken\/status\/1484909948966473729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHas that ever worked at stopping an authoritarian regime from doing anything? A hashtag?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will have to say that unlike the last administration, we don\u2019t think Twitter is the only means of engaging or negotiating or discussing important topics,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cBut it is important for us to convey to the Ukrainian people, who do view commentary through a range of forums \u2014 I don\u2019t know how many are Fox News watchers, maybe some of them, including social media, that we stand with them, we support them, and that includes their effort to protect the sovereignty of their country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twitter was an important diplomatic tool for the Trump administration \u2014 and an effective one \u2014 but it was not the only one.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast to the Obama administration, which did little to support Ukraine in 2014 aside from sending blankets and rations, the Trump administration sent anti-tank missiles and other military aid to Ukraine, which was not threatened by Russia for the four years of Trump\u2019s tenure.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also met directly with Russian President Vladimir President \u2014 much to the chagrin of Democrats and the media, who bought into the \u201cRussia collusion\u201d hoax about the 2016 presidential election \u2014 a hoax that Psaki herself&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jrpsaki\/status\/862081525453660160?s=20\">supported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki was the spokesperson for the State Department in 2014, when the Obama administration used a hashtag, #UnitedforUkraine, to protest the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which the U.S. failed to stop or prevent. (The tweet is now listed as coming from Ned Price, the current occupant of the job that Psaki held at the time.)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">To echo <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BarackObama?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BarackObama<\/a> today-proud to stand <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UnitedForUkraine?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UnitedForUkraine<\/a>   World should stand together with one voice <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/VeMt578UdY\">pic.twitter.com\/VeMt578UdY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ned Price (@StateDeptSpox) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateDeptSpox\/status\/448944053741031424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Obama administration\u2019s protest did not extend far beyond Twitter; it applied sanctions to Russian officials but otherwise did little else to respond.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian government quickly <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/politics\/2014\/04\/russia-the-us-and-hashtag-diplomacy\">hijacked<\/a> the hashtag and used it for its own propaganda purposes on social media.<\/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>White House press secretary Jen Psaki defended the use of Twitter hashtags in the ongoing Ukraine crisis, despite the fact that similar tactics failed to prevent or reverse the Russian &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1239640","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\/1239640","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1239640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239640\/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=1239640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1239640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1239640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}