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I said comparably. The Obama Administration supported and encouraged a coup d’etat in Ukraine against the sovereign democratically elected government that precipitated their civil war. As far as Crimea, it had been part of Russia for hundreds of years until a Soviet dictator decided to unilaterally give it to Ukraine as part of a “birthday gift” to himself. It is very clear, even if you don’t accept the referendum, that the vast majority of Crimeans want to be part of Russia, as they have been for hundreds of years. It was never part of Ukraine prior to that “birthday gift”.
As far as Syria, the Obama administration allowed the civil war there to fester for years and years with hundreds of thousands of deaths, mostly civilians, without helping the rebels overthrow Assad when they had the chance and the US could and should have assisted them. This was even after Assad used chemical weapons and Obama then backed down from his “red line” to bomb Assad, making a mockery of America and letting the civil war to kill hundreds of thousands more. Russian intervention appears now to bringing an end to the civil war and probably the further killing of hundreds of thousands of civilians if the war simply continued on for years and years more.