President Obama referred to Ukraine as a client state of Russia’s in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, eliciting criticism from some U.S. lawmakers and analysts who noted Kiev’s independence from Moscow and ongoing battle against Russian-backed separatists.
Despite Russia’s anemic economic growth, Obama said the Kremlin “is pouring resources in to prop up Ukraine and Syria, client states that they saw slipping away from their orbit.”
“The international system we built after World War II is now struggling to keep pace with this new reality,” he added.
The president’s actual remarks differed from his prepared text released by the …read more
Source: The Washington Free Beacon
