Conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer says that President Barack Obama is showing "arrogance" on the subject of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"Obama's arrogance on this is really incomprehensible," Krauthammer said during a Fox News segment late Tuesday. "He tells ISIS it's not Islamic. He tells the Israelis that he knows Jewish ethics and interest more than they do.
"And now he's instructing Putin on what the essence of Russian greatness is."
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"Putin has 80 percent approval in his country. Almost twice what Obama has here. He knows what Russians want — they want the Crimea and Ukraine, they're willing to suffer economically if necessary. I don't think that's a productive line of argument."
Earlier this week,
Obama said during the G7 Summit in Germany that Putin's actions are causing harm to Russia's economy.
"He's got to make a decision," Obama said. "Does he continue to wreck his country's economy and continue Russia's isolation in pursuit of a wrong-headed desire to re-create the glories of the Soviet empire, or does he recognize that Russia's greatness does not depend on violating the territorial integrity and sovereignty of other countries?"
Krauthammer said Obama has been mostly talk and little action when it comes to countering Russia's military aggression against Ukraine.
"We have done nothing against Putin, and there are a lot of options on the table that we have ignored," Krauthammer said.
Also this week, Krauthammer said Obama
committed "constitutional indecency" by saying the Supreme Court should not have taken on the case of subsidies in the Affordable Care Act — a decision which threatens to collapse the Obamacare system.
"But here, for the president to speak out and … impugn the motives of any justice who rules against him by saying in advance it will be a twisted interpretation … it's a pattern in which he steps over the boundaries of what the executive ought to do," Krauthammer said.
"He did not swear an oath to provide subsidies for healthcare. He swore an oath to defend, essentially to respect, the Constitution."
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