Always weak on Russia, Obama again misleads on his Ukraine record

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In an interview with CNN‘s Christiane Amanpour that aired on Friday, former President Barack Obama offered a creative retelling of his administration’s record on Ukraine. Obama rejected Amanpour’s suggestion that he might have imposed harsher consequences on Russian President Vladimir Putin following the latter’s 2014 seizure of Crimea.

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