{"id":1432822,"date":"2022-04-12T10:23:48","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T14:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1432822"},"modified":"2022-04-12T10:23:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T14:23:53","slug":"obama-russias-invasion-a-reminder-to-not-take-our-own-democracy-for-granted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-russias-invasion-a-reminder-to-not-take-our-own-democracy-for-granted\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama: Russia&#039;s Invasion a Reminder &#039;to Not Take Our Own Democracy for Granted&#039;"},"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\">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%2Fobama-russias-invasion-a-reminder-to-not-take-our-own-democracy-for-granted%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=1432822&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\/04\/GettyImages-1283593131-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former President Barack Obama sat down with NBC \u201cToday\u201d co-host Al Roker on Tuesday to weigh in on the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Obama advised that Putin had \u201calways been ruthless against his own people, as well as others. He added the brutality on Ukraine was a \u201creminder of why it\u2019s so important for us to not take our own democracy for granted.\u201d<\/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>\u201cPutin has always been ruthless against his own people, as well as others,\u201d Obama told Roker. \u201cHe has always been somebody who\u2019s wrapped up in this twisted, distorted sense of grievance and ethnic nationalism. That part of Putin, I think, has always been there. What we have seen with the invasion of Ukraine is him being reckless in a way that you might not have anticipated eight, 10 years ago, but the danger was always there.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Roker asked Obama if he thought he handled Russia annexing Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 properly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe situations in each of these circumstances are different, but I think that what we\u2019re seeing consistently is a reminder of why it\u2019s so important for us to not take our own democracy for granted, why it\u2019s so important for us to stand for and align ourselves with those who believe in freedom and independence, and I think that the current administration\u2019s doing what it needs to be doing,\u201d he replied.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Trent Baker\u00a0on Twitter\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/MagnifiTrent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@MagnifiTrent<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Barack Obama sat down with NBC \u201cToday\u201d co-host Al Roker on Tuesday to weigh in on the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. 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