In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Sen. Mitt Romney on Sunday addressed his controversial 2012 comment that Russia is “without question, our No. 1 geopolitical foe.”
“A geopolitical foe they obviously were and continue to be, because Russia continues to fight us in every venue they have. They support the world's worst actors,” Romney said on CNN’s “State of the Union” when asked about his original statement from a decade ago, for which he was widely mocked at the time.
“When you were asked, 'What's the biggest geopolitical threat facing America,' you said, 'Russia.' Not al-Qaeda. You said Russia," Obama said during a presidential debate with Romney in October 2012. "And the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back, because the Cold War's been over for 20 years."
Asked on Sunday by CNN’s Dana Bash about the 2012 exchange, Romney asserted that China is currently the greatest threat to the U.S. “long term.” But he also backed up his statement on Russia in the wake of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Thursday invasion of Ukraine.Hundreds of thousands of Russian troops have pushed into Ukraine, and fighting continues to intensify across the country. The U.S.
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