Former President Barack Obama said in a speech at the Copenhagen Democracy Summit on Friday that the war in Ukraine is “far from over.”
“Make no mistake, this war is far from over. The costs will continue to mount,” Obama said. “The costs will continue to mount, the course of events … are hard to predict.”
US and NATO officials have been warning that the Western powers should be prepared to support Ukraine in its war against Russia for a long time.
Ukrainian officials have also said they’re expecting a long battle as their goals are to drive Russia out of Ukrainian territory even as Moscow continues to make gains and Kyiv is taking heavy losses.
Obama added that US support for Ukraine “must remain strong, steadfast and sustained until this conflict reaches a resolution.”
The current crisis in Ukraine can be traced back to 2014 when the Obama administration backed the ouster of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. The coup resulted in Russia taking Crimea and the separatists in the Donbas declaring independence from Kyiv, which sparked a war in the region.
Obama backed Ukraine in its war against the Donbas separatists, although he was hesitant to send weapons to Kyiv. That policy was changed by President Trump, who authorized the first US shipment of Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine.
Anything Obama says is $hit, just like his policies. He is a Hillary warmonger!!!
No POS obama is a community activist created by Oprah Winfrey.
The hatred obama has for traditional America is telling!
That sounds like another way to say he hates white people. It isn’t true.
No POS obama hates all traditional Americans White, Black and Brown.
Him pretending to drink from a glass of water from Flint, Michagan was very telling. The mostly black audience were completely appauled he would do that stunt and clearly fake it to their face.
How about you take some soap and wash that mouth of yours, kiddo?
Sometimes the truth is a bit tasteless but it is not criminal…
Wash thoroughly!
I call her by her proper name: Hitlery…
He’s his own warmonger. Just like Biden. Just like Trump. Just like Bush. Just like them all.
“obama is a hillary warmonger” – is that worse than a bush warmonger?
They are all veted war mongers. No peace allowed.
Thank you POS obama for your military advice. You are such a dip stick and woke idiot. Perhaps you should stop running you mouth since you are no longer the President. Even though you are Joe Biden’s puppet master!
Not many people realize that the poll number about those that support you are as fake as Joe Biden’s election win.
You did your best to foment problems with Russia because of your lack of knowledge about Russia and Slavic people. President Putin did not fall for your gambit but you had Joe Biden and his band of clowns push Zelensky into inciting Russia.
Just retire and shut your mouth, idiot!
“You did your best to foment problems with Russia because of your lack of knowledge about Russia and Slavic people.”
And compared to his predecessors and his successors, how was he any different?
his skin is a different color. get with the program man!
POS obama was far worse in fomenting hostility with Russia then anyone since Truman.
This a$$ should stop running his mouth and go back to his boyfriends on Martha’s Vineyard.
Also, it was me that got Ukraine the very effective anti-tank busters (Javelins) when the previous Administration was sending blankets. Let History so note!” Trump bragged
“Nobody was ever tougher on Russia than me,” Trump added.(march 2022)
“Probably no one has been tougher to Russia than Donald Trump,” he added, citing investments in the U.S. military and NATO.(april 2018)
‘Nobody’s Been Tougher on Russia Than Me,’ Trump Says.(may 2019)
Russia: Trump Has Sanctioned Us More in Three Years Than Obama in Eight.
“I’ve lost count already, trying to sum up the number of decisions made by both the Obama and the Trump Administrations. The Trump Administration, by the way, has already long surpassed Obama’s by the sheer amount of persons and legal entities covered by these decisions,” said Lavrov,
Thank you POS obama for your military advice. You are such a dip stick and woke idiot. Perhaps you should stop running you mouth since you are no longer the President. Even though you are Joe Biden’s puppet master!
Not many people realize that the poll number about those that support you are as fake as Joe Biden’s election win.
You did your best to foment problems with Russia because of your lack of knowledge about Russia and Slavic people. President Putin did not fall for your gambit but you had Joe Biden and his band of clowns push Zelensky into inciting Russia.
Just retire and shut your mouth, idiot!
There is a lot of fuss about that the Kremlin is struggling to provide basic services to Russian-occupied territories. Seriously, that can hardly be news to anyone as they are struggling to support their own population within Russia’s borders.
Of course. There is a war on, and those areas were just fought over.
Services would be better if they’d remained in Ukraine as offered by Putin in December, when all he wanted was to limit NATO expansion to the borders of Russia.
He has admitted that he wanted to conquer the whole of Ukraine from the beginning, comrade.
Ukraine had no problems with that because it just cut basic services, pensions, etc. to Ukrainians in the Donbas. Russia even continues to provide gas to Ukraine and. unlike what the US would have done, allows all basic services to function even in enemy territory. I guess that from a position of strength, the Russians don’t have to stoop that low.
As I said in my post, the Russians can’t provide basic services in areas they occupied.
Stop smoking mushrooms, Ivan.
Obama should know, he is the puppet master of Dementia Joey…
And what would Biden be doing otherwise? A lifelong warmonger doing wars. Why does he need anyone to pull his strings? And weren’t people claiming Obama’s strings were being pulled by the Clinton’s? Suddenly this empty suit pipsqueak is running the show?
True enough. But Biden can’t make a sentence. And he is starting to chap at his gaff’s being walked back and a lack of support from WH staff. Or so we hear. Obama is bought and paid for an useful as a Shill. The idiots love him and worship his ever word.
Yeah, we will keep paying a steep price and then Ukraine will end up part of Russia again. We took it by force in one way, they will take it back another.
Remember Mr. POS obama when you said: “Bashar Assad will be thrown out of Syria and Putin will be thrown out right after”?
Funny! You are no longer officially in power so you must skulk in the shadows telling your puppet senile Joe Biden what to do and say.
There should be a law against your treachery and disrespect of our Constitution.
You hate traditional America and we think so little of you that we ignore you mostly! That is until you run your mouth! Typical!
Once again with racist dog whistles.
Apologist for a left wing hater of America much?
If you’re hearing dog whistles, you might want to get a psyche exam.
I wholeheartedly agree with You Thinker. Is it a Black tune or some Zionist jingle he hears/. I hear only Obama doubt. Is this like the of antisemitism, that ANY criticism of Israel or Zionism is antisemitic…?????? Even complaints OF troops murdering Palestinian CHILDREN….????
Tell us the title of the racist tune that you think you can hear so we can see if we can hear it too, or tell us what number line of text you cite. Otherwise I will think of you and your comments as racist delusions… Help us out here.
Maybe since what became before Obama and after Obama was just as bad, if not worse, and yet he’s fixated on Obama. Constantly blaming him for where we are as a country. He’s also fixated on Austin even though his predecessors were just as f*cking bad.
so now that trump is gone, obama is some kind of puppet master?
what, was he just taking a vacation for 4 years?
Deranged much? POS obama has been skulking around since he left office. From his office down the street from the White House he talks to Joe Biden daily. Jen Psaki admitted this on many occasions.
“From his office down the street from the White House he talks to Joe Biden daily. Jen Psaki admitted this on many occasions.”
No, she hasn’t. She said they talk often.
NO she said they consult daily!
NO, she doesn’t. She even makes a point of not saying how often.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-white-house-communication-barack-obama
https://nypost.com/2021/04/08/psaki-says-obama-biden-talk-regularly-but-wont-say-how-often/
Two articles do not come close to reality!
I’m just saying what Psaki has said. I’m not saying she’s telling the truth or whether Obama actually talks to Biden every day. I’m telling you what she has said. Now if you can find something where she is quoted as saying Obama and Biden talk DAILY, I’d gladly stand corrected.
Yes. No other President has stayed in the Imperial City.
And? Is it necessary to be in the Imperial City? Couldn’t he do it from say, Florida?
no, one has to be close enough for the puppet strings to reach
Are you blaming Obama when you should be blaming Hillary?
Correction: It’s Mr. whole SOS obama, ex-pres. & professor of Constitutional Law, Univ. of Chicago Law School. Curious how the original Professor of the Noble Lie (Strauss) (Merkan style) also taught at U of C, founded by the great and noble philanthropist John D Rockefeller. Makes you think there is a figure in the carpet.
Yes, Obama played a major role in starting the Ukraine War, when he allowed Hillary and Victoria Nuland to stage a coup in Ukraine, then brayed in public (NYT carried the stories) about how NATO soon would be moving into the former Russian bases in Crimea.
So, how much dirty money MIC has offered Obama to make such stupid statement…?!
I think people here are overreacting solely because of who said it. If Colin Powell (now deceased) had said those words, he might have been taken seriously.
It seems evident to me that Russia will easily drive the AFU back to the Dnipro river. But all bets are off after that.
Barack Obama Says US Lost The War In Ukraine
Groomed by the cia since birth
Obomba needs to hire a psychic… The US is nothing but a hired thug-weapons dealer. Often, I think many of our elected leaders sit in back alleys, rubbing their hands together, over a trashcan fire, in gleeful anticipation of nuclear war… And it is so heartening to see Reps. and Dems. coming together to support WAR!
Beyond reckless and the poor of the world will die by the millions if this continues. What sickens me the most is the fact that exactly ZERO Leftist intellectuals have come out against war. Astonishing how phony and cowardly we have become.
They are against the war. They are attacked by the Biden administration with accusations of “disinformation”. What MSM is going to host their opinion when they are all corporate owned and stand to benefit?
US support for Ukraine “must remain strong, steadfast and sustained until this conflict reaches a resolution.” …What the heck does that even mean?
Let’s continue to launder money for the wealthiest and the defense industry (until a whistleblower exposes that Ukraine is losing).
…then imprison the whistleblower and ignore the facts!
Yeah, highly likely, sadly.
Isn’t this the pot calling the kettle black? The guy that approved support to overthrow the Russian government from Ukraine and alienating our NATO allies when Nueland was caught on tape saying F the EU and acknowledging we supported and funded the coup? Do you think if I know this that Putin doesn’t? You are a clown and voting for you was the dumbest mistake of my life. Voting for Biden may have been the 2nd dumbest as he came in to finish the job for Hillary with her pissing match and war against Putin.
Now a lab pandemic, economic crisis and war later, were all worse off for your dirty deeds and failings. F U and the DNC. I’m making sure you all get voted out in 2024.
I wish that I could get the whole truth and nothing but the truth from Obama. I would ask him, “𝒘𝒉𝒚?” What could possibly make him think that it was OK to help support a coup against Yanukovych and his Party of Regions so recently after the Parliamentary election?
I suppose that the neocon definition of peace requires that 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 else be subjugated. But I wonder if the ultimate goal is to seize Russia’s energy before another country, the UK for example, exhausts alternative sources; is forced to rely on Russia; and thereafter becomes less pliant to the wishes of Washington D. C.
This just goes to show that US presidents are just the front men of the plutocracy. Obama was powerless to prevent the Neocons at the State Department from pursuing regime change in Ukraine. The Neocons even achieved the incredible feat of making Trump send heavy weapons to Ukraine even though he hated Ukraine and Nato and wanted to cozy up to Putin instead.
I wouldn’t say that they are powerless, but rather bribed to the hilt.
So what will you all “discuss” after russia and china nuke US ?
Obama’s legacy will be one of war crimes and savagery. He is the one who dramatically increased cowardly, illegal drone strikes in many countries, supporting Saudi Arabia in its war on Yemen, destroying Libya – once the wealthiest per-capita nation in Africa – and turning it over to ISIS, slave traffickers and warlords; and the first president to assassinate a US teenager with a drone. How this person won a Nobel Peace Prize is beyond the rational mind to understand. He should be tried for war crimes, along with Hillary Clinton, and Putin.
This is the culmination of Barack Obama’s failed attempt to overthrow both the US and Russian governments.
Maybe Obama didn’t get the memo, but the war has reached a resolution — and Ukraine has lost. Demagogues like Obama never learn.
That kind of statement proves US ‘elites’ are out of touch with the facts on the ground. When Karl Rove told a reporter, “we’re an empire now, and when
we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that
reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new
realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out,” the rest of the ‘elites’ took it to heart. They don’t have to pay attention to reality, they are the ones who form it. So if Obama says Ukraine’s military isn’t angling towards collapse, but is actually on the cusp of pushing Russia out of Ukraine’s 2014 borders, he thinks his words create the reality. “He said ‘Let it be so,’ and it was.”
Delusional sociopaths, every one of them. Why do we allow them to push us towards such danger? There needs to be a backlash over this. These people believe their own counter-factual propaganda (“We never promised NATO wouldn’t expand eastward! We never pushed regime change on Ukraine in 2014! We never supported Neo-Fascists, which don’t exist, and are not integrated into the Ukrainian military hierarchy! We never undermined the Minsk Accords! Etc.”)
The Persian King Xerxes had the sea whipped because a storm had prevented his armies from crossing it. The kind of hubris our elected, and even moreso our unelected, officials are displaying these days are following quite precisely in Xerxes’s footsteps.
Hopefully Russia will break the back of the cokehead NAZI regime. Who would have though that Russia would be the champion of Christian values and America the communist vassal state ruled from Beijing?
If that’s what you think, that thing you’re doing that you think is thinking isn’t.
Swapping out price tags for antiwar leaflets, wearing green ribbons, flashing a copy of Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace.”
Those are things that can get ordinary Russians who don’t agree with the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine detained, fined or even jailed.
Since the start of Moscow’s incursion, media in Russia have been cautioned against calling it a “war,” and new draconian legislation has been put in place to stop people from “discrediting” the Russian army, punishable by up to 15 years in prison.
That has meant the few Russians who still dare speak up against the war have gotten inventive to escape arrest. But it’s far from guaranteed.
Artist and musician Alexandra Skochilenko, from St. Petersburg, has been in detention for nearly two months after replacing several price tags at a local supermarket with small pieces of paper containing messages about the Russian army’s actions in Ukraine.
One of them read: “The Russian army bombed an art school in Mariupol. About 400 people hid in it from shelling.” Another said: “Putin has been lying to us from TV screens for 20 years. The result of this lie is our willingness to justify war and senseless deaths.”
It’s great that at least some people in Russia are willing to speak up against the barbarians in the Kremlin!!
Obama should just shut up and fade away as gracefully as he can. Between inciting the Ukraine coup in 2014, supporting Al-Qaeda and ISIS against Syria, (before turning around and then illegally invading Syria), supporting the unprovoked aggression by KSA and UAE in Yemen and ignoring their murder of civilians, doubling down on the useless war in Afghanistan, and encouraging the droning of civilians, including the execution of US citizens living abroad, he has more than enough blood on his hands to guarantee his upcoming eternity in hell. If he had any self awareness, he would recuse himself from public life and reflect on the evil he has committed. Putin may be damned as well, but one thing for sure, he won’t lack US company down there.