{"id":5753,"date":"2014-03-01T10:01:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T15:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5753"},"modified":"2025-10-13T22:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T02:49:14","slug":"sarah-palin-was-right-now-i-am-officially-scared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5753","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Palin was right. Now I am officially scared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In October, 2008, when she was speaking as the Republican vice-presidential nominee, Sarah Palin <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2014\/02\/28\/palin-on-ukraine-i-told-you-so\/\">said the following<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After the Russian army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama&#8217;s reaction was one of indecision and moral equivalence \u2013 the kind of response that would <em><strong>only encourage Russia&#8217;s Putin to invade Ukraine next<\/strong><\/em>.&#8221; [emphasis mine]<\/p>\n<p>The very respectable Foreign Policy magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2008\/10\/22\/russia_might_invade_ukraine_if_obama_wins_palin_warns\">described<\/a> Palin&#8217;s suggestion as an &#8220;extremely far-fetched scenario&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to March 1, 2014, when Putin <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/ukraine-crisis-putin-asks-parliament-to-ok-military-use-in-crimea-1.2556228\">just asked<\/a> the Russian parliament to authorize the sending of troops into Crimea, ostensibly to protect Russian nationals and help normalize the situation.<\/p>\n<p>In a world where Sarah Palin&#8217;s geopolitical concerns come true and respectable foreign policy institutions are eating crow, everything is possible.<\/p>\n<p>And now, I am officially scared.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5755 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014-02-22-UkraineCrisis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014-02-22-UkraineCrisis.jpg 450w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014-02-22-UkraineCrisis-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5753' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October, 2008, when she was speaking as the Republican vice-presidential nominee, Sarah Palin said the following: &#8220;After the Russian army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama&#8217;s reaction was one of indecision and moral equivalence \u2013 the kind of response that would only encourage Russia&#8217;s Putin to invade Ukraine next.&#8221; [emphasis mine] The very <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5753' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5753"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13752,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5753\/revisions\/13752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}