President Obama Warns Russia: There ‘Will Be Costs’ for Military Intervention in Ukraine

President Obama today warned Moscow there “will be costs” if Russia intervenes in Ukraine’s affairs. “We are now deeply concerned by reports of military movements taken by the Russian Federation inside of Ukraine,” Obama told reporters in the White House Briefing Room. “Any violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity would be deeply destabilizing, which is not in the interests of Ukraine, Russia or Europe. It would represent a profound interference in matters that must be determined by the Ukrainian people. Well Palin warned us back in 2008 that electing Obama could lead to Russia attacking the Ukraine and the bots and theirs just mocked her for it. "During the 2008 presidential campaign, Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin  warned that if Senator Barack Obama were elected president, his "indecision" and "moral equivalence" might encourage Russia's Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine.  Palin said then: After the Russian Army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama's reaction was one of indecision and moral equivalence, the kind of response that would only encourage Russia's Putin to invade Ukraine next.

  I think for those comments, the high- brow Foreign Policy  magazine and its editor Blake Hounshel, who now is one of the editors of Politico magazine, mocked her.  light of recent events in Ukraine and concerns that Russia is getting its troops ready to cross the border into the neighboring nation, nobody seems to be laughing at or dismissing those comments now. Hounshel wrote then that Palin's comments were "strange" and "this is an extremely far-fetched scenario. "And given how Russia has been able to unsettle Ukraine's pro-Western government without firing a shot, I don't see why violence would be necessary to bring Kiev to heel," Hounshell dismissively wrote.  Palin made her remarks on the stump after Obama's running mate Joe Biden warned Obama supporters to "gird   your loins" if Obama is elected because international leaders may test or try to take advantage of him."