Romney: ‘The 80’s called and we didn’t answer’

Utah Republican Senator Mitt Romney issued a statement in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine Wednesday and said that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “…Ukraine invasion is the first time in 80 years that a great power has moved to conquer a sovereign nation. It is without justification, without provocation and without honor.“pic.twitter.com/1sVNk4RiJa— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) February 24, 2022
“Putin’s impunity predictably follows our tepid response to his previous horrors in Georgia and Crimea, our naive efforts at a one-sided ‘reset,’ and the shortsightedness of ‘America First.’ ”Romney continued, “The ’80s called’ and we didn’t answer,” referencing Barack Obama’s line during a 2012 presidential debate with the Senator during which Obama mocked Romney for suggesting that Russia was America’s number one geo-political foe.“The peril of again looking away from Putin’s tyranny falls not just on the people of the nations he has violated, it falls on America as well. History shows that a tyrant’s appetite for conquest is never satiated.”“America and our allies must answer the call to protect freedom by subjecting Putin and Russia to the harshest economic penalties, by expelling them from global institutions, and by committing ourselves to the expansion and modernization of our national defense.“In 2012, as the Republican presidential candidate Romney slammed Obama for telling Russian President Dmitry Medvedev he’d have more “flexibility” toward the countr …

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