{"id":2044329,"date":"2023-09-25T18:25:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T22:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-laid-the-groundwork-for-ukraine-invasion-sowell-warned-us-this-would-happen\/"},"modified":"2023-09-25T18:28:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T22:28:03","slug":"obama-laid-the-groundwork-for-ukraine-invasion-sowell-warned-us-this-would-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-laid-the-groundwork-for-ukraine-invasion-sowell-warned-us-this-would-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"Sowell&#8217;s warning about Obama&#8217;s actions leading to Ukraine invasion came true."},"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%2Fobama-laid-the-groundwork-for-ukraine-invasion-sowell-warned-us-this-would-happen%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=2044329&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--><h2>Few figures in\u200d conservativism are \u2062more revered than\u200b Thomas Sowell<\/h2>\n<p>A free-market\u200c economist, social theorist, and philosopher, Sowell\u2019s work has spanned decades and influenced\u200b generations.<\/p>\n<p>Sowell wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abandoned-all-pretense-of-being-conservative-jonah-goldberg-joins-cnn-as-a-commentator-social-media-erupts\/\" title=\"\u2018Abandoned All Pretense Of Being Conservative\u2019: Jonah Goldberg Joins CNN As A Commentator, Social Media Erupts\">nationally syndicated column<\/a>, authored dozens of books, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/history-the-left-erased-the-founding-fathers-helped-obliterate-slavery\/\" title=\"Leftist historians have erased the crucial role of the Founding Fathers in abolishing slavery.\">dazzled television audiences time<\/a> and \u200btime again with his common sense, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/it-is-a-moral-freak-show-msnbc-says-evangelical-movement-is-anti-intellectual-anti-science-moral-freak-show\/\" title=\"\u2018It Is A Moral Freak Show\u2019: MSNBC Says Evangelical Movement Is \u2018Anti-Intellectual,\u2019 \u2018Anti-Science\u2019 \u2018Moral Freak Show\u2019\">anti-intellectual approach<\/a> to political and cultural issues.<\/p>\n<p>The following story is part of \u200cThe Western Journal\u2019s \u2064exclusive\u200c series\u200d \u201cThe Sowell Digest.\u201d Each issue will break down and summarize one of Sowell\u2019s many influential \u200cworks.<\/p>\n<h3>Thomas Sowell&#8217;s\u2064 Criticism of Obama and the Ukraine Invasion<\/h3>\n<p>Thomas Sowell reserved some of his\u2062 harshest criticism for\u2064 former President Barack \u2064Obama.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, \u200csome\u2063 of that criticism showed how Obama\u2019s foolish ideas likely would produce the circumstances that\u2062 eventually made possible the February\u200c 2022 Russian invasion of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/uncovered-american-tax-dollars-funding-way-just-weapons-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sowell\u200c made this connection in\u2062 an April 2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.com\/story\/opinion\/columnists\/2014\/04\/04\/thomas-sowell-obama-foreign-policy-successes-dangerous\/7290813\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opinion\u200b piece<\/a> \u200bentitled, \u201cHow foreign is our policy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By \u2064the 6th year\u2064 of his presidency, Obama had built a strange record on \u2064foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>In \u200cfact, Sowell noted that conservative commentators\u200b such as \u200bRush Limbaugh and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dsouza-challenges-barr-debate-claims-contained-2000-mules\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dinesh D\u2019Souza<\/a> had openly wondered whether Obama\u2019s otherwise inexplicable behavior in foreign affairs might not have reflected\u200c the 44th president\u2019s deep-rooted \u2063antipathy\u2064 toward \u2062the\u200c United States.<\/p>\n<p>Sowell called this a \u201cdisturbing possibility\u201d that fit with Obama\u2019s\u200d \u201ccitizen-of-the-world conception of himself.\u201d Perhaps Obama\u200c believed \u201cthat the\u2063 United States\u200d already has too much power and needs \u2062to be deflated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the Cold\u200c War, America\u2019s domestic critics often took this view. Jeane Kirkpatrick\u2019s legendary \u201cBlame America First\u201d\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu\/2017\/03\/09\/remarks-at-the-1984-rnc-aug-20-1984\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">speech<\/a> at the 1984\u200d Republican Convention encapsulated that view to thunderous \u2062applause.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/flashback-chuck-norris-explains-switched-democrat-republican-rips-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Obama<\/a>, according to Sowell, \u2062fell under the \u201cBlame \u200bAmerica First\u201d spell.<\/p>\n<p>In this context, Obama\u2019s treatment of Ukraine might \u2063have had long-term \u200dconsequences.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cBlame\u2062 America First\u201d \u200ccrowd always insisted \u2063that\u2063 the world would\u200d become more just\u2063 if only the U.S. would disarm.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sowell, Obama\u200d universalized this disarmament principle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUkraine\u2019s recent appeal \u200cto the \u200dUnited States for military supplies, with which \u200dto defend itself as more Russian troops mass on its borders, was denied by President Obama,\u201d Sowell wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is sending food supplies instead. He might as well send them white flags, to facilitate surrender.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here Sowell argued \u200dnot \u2063 <em>for <\/em>the unlimited \u2062supply of arms\u2064 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/cant-make-pentagon-exempts-ukraine-operations-potential-government-shutdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine<\/a> but <em>against <\/em>the \u2064same Obama disarmament principle that had\u2063 left Ukraine vulnerable in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBack in\u2064 2005, Sen. Barack Obama urged\u200b the \u2064Ukrainians to drastically reduce their conventional\u200b weapons, including \u2062anti-aircraft missiles and tons \u200dof\u200d ammunition,\u201d Sowell noted. \u201cUkraine had \u2062already rid itself\u200b of nuclear missiles, left over \u200bfrom the days when it had been part of\u2063 the\u200d Soviet Union.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alas, nuclear disarmament made nations \u201cmore vulnerable \u2063to those who are\u200c not peaceful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Modern \u2063readers, rightly angered by the U.S.\u200b government\u2019s funding of\u200b the current Ukraine war, \u200cmight react with skepticism.<\/p>\n<p>Sowell, however, did not urge the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-pentagon-plows-forward-woke-agenda-working-give-benefits-former-troops-broke-rules\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pentagon<\/a> to spend\u2064 hundreds of billions of dollars in a money-laundering \u2062proxy war.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he\u2062 simply\u2062 argued that\u2064 Ukrainians \u200dhad a \u200bright to defend\u2063 themselves against aggression.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, he \u2062argued that well-armed nations have a better \u200dchance \u2062to deter hostile \u200cneighbors\u2063 than weak \u2063ones do.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, \u200dwhatever one thinks of\u200d the bad actors involved in the current Ukraine situation, \u2063Sowell \u2064got it right. Disarmament left Ukraine vulnerable.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_subscription_pitch\">\n<h3>A Note \u2064from Our Founder:<\/h3>\n<p>Silicon\u200b Valley and the Big Tech \u2064tyrants have \u2063done everything they can to\u200c put The Western\u200b Journal out of business. 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Brown<br \/>\nFounder of The Western Journal<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post\u200b <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/obama-laid-groundwork-ukraine-invasion-sowell-warned-us-happen\/\">Obama Laid the \u200dGroundwork for Ukraine Invasion &#8211; Sowell Warned Us This Would Happen<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western\u200c Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How did the Russian invasion of \u200cUkraine in 2022 support Thomas Sowell&#8217;s\u200c warning\u2063 against disarmament principles?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Yed-attacks-afghanistan\/&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; rel=&#8221;noopener&#8221;>U.S. government to\u2062 fund<\/a> the Ukraine war. Instead, he warned against \u200dthe disarmament principles that left Ukraine vulnerable to Russian\u2064 aggression.<\/p>\n<p>Sowell\u2019s criticism of Obama\u2019s foreign policy decisions and his warning about the consequences of disarmament were not unfounded. The Russian invasion \u2063of \u200cUkraine in 2022 proved to be a \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-walks-back-u-s-recognition-of-golan-heights-as-israeli-territory\/\" title=\"Biden Admin Walks Back U.S. Recognition of Golan Heights as Israeli Territory\">significant security threat<\/a> to the region and a violation of Ukraine&#8217;s \u2063sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>While Sowell passed away in 2021, his \u2063legacy as a conservative thinker \u2064and critic of Obama&#8217;s\u2064 policies endures. His writings continue to resonate with \u200cconservatives and those who value individual freedom, limited government, and free markets.<\/p>\n<p>Sowell&#8217;s work serves as a reminder of the importance of strong and principled leadership, especially in the realm of foreign policy. His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-laid-the-groundwork-for-ukraine-invasion-sowell-warned-us-this-would-happen\/\" title=\"Sowell's warning about Obama's actions leading to Ukraine invasion came true.\">insights provide \u200cvaluable lessons<\/a> for\u200c current and future political leaders as they\u200b navigate the complexities of international relations.<\/p>\n<p>As the \u200bconservative movement looks \u2062to the future, it would do well to\u200b remember the contributions\u2062 of Thomas Sowell. His ideas\u2062 and\u200b analysis have shaped the\u200d conservative movement \u2063and will continue to \u2063shape the \u2063discourse on economics, politics, and culture for \u200dgenerations to come.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Sowell may\u2062 no longer be with us, but his\u2062 profound impact on conservativism and his dedication to intellectual rigor and common sense will never be\u2062 forgotten. His legacy will live on, \u200binspiring new generations of\u2062 conservatives to \u2064challenge conventional wisdom and champion the principles that uphold individual liberty and prosperity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>conservative icon Thomas Sowell, a respected economist, philosopher, and social theorist, has left an indelible mark on generations. 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