Sarah Palin's prediction in 2008 of a Russian invasion of Ukraine has come true

[pampango]

Back in 2008 while running for president, the former Republican governor said then-Senator Barack Obama's reaction to Russia invading Georgia would "encourage" Russia to invade Ukraine next.

Foreign Policy magazine labeled Palin's prediction as "strange." Palin was happy to highlight her prediction on Facebook Friday after reports that Russian military forces are believed to have moved by air to a Russian base in Ukraine.

She says she anticipated the crisis despite her prediction -- in her words, "being derided as 'an extremely far-fetched scenario.'"

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/national_world&id=9451209

Of course, Bush was president when Russia fought with Georgia. Rather than proving that Palin knows what she's talking about it just shows that one right-wing militarist (Palin) has some insight into what another right wing militarist (Putin) might do. Makes one think that Palin would do the same thing that Putin has done in similar circumstances.

[liberal N proud]

1. And she has a front row seat - right at home.

[pampango]

3. Perhaps she thinks that the Russia/Ukraine border is visible from her home.

[BeyondGeography]

2. It's her Horschack moment...Ooh, ooh, Mr. Kotter!

[Scuba]

4. One right, 178,095,852,124,872 wrong.

[hrmjustin]

6. +1

[Mz Pip]

5. Correlation is not causation

Putin would have done this no matter who was in the White House. I doubt he would have been any different if Romney were President.

[CJCRANE]

7. Apparently she was repeating something McCain said.

And McCain has his fingers in a few geopolitical pies so wasn't a farfetched guess on his part.

[jsr]

8. Bingo.