Putin 'wrestles bears and drills for oil' while Obama 'wears mom jeans': Sarah Palin unloads on the White House as she enjoys her 'I told you so moment' on the Ukraine crisis



Former Alaska governor said 'Anyone who carries the common-sense gene would know that Putin doesn’t change his stripes'



Palin predicted during a 2008 campaign rally that Putin's Russia would occupy Ukraine on Barack Obama's watch after invading Georgia



Foreign Policy magazine slammed Palin's Ukraine invasion prediction as a 'far-fetched' scenario

She told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Monday that Putin 'wants to exert huge power and dominance, so he has to get to those border areas and he has to capture them'



Sarah Palin mocked President Barack Obama on Monday for his response to the Russia-Ukraine crisis, saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin's expansionist moves have been enabled by a White House that projects weakness.

'People are looking at Putin as one who wrestles bears and drills for oil,' the former Republican Governor of Alaska told Fox News host Sean Hannity. 'They look at our president as one who wears mom jeans.'

Palin argued that economic and trade sanctions against Moscow would be useless against a Russian leader who's intent on rebuilding the Soviet Union one annexation at a time.

'Anyone who carries the commonsense gene would know that Putin doesn’t change his stripes,' she said. 'He wants to exert huge power and dominance, so he has to get to those border areas and he has to capture them.'

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Palin zinged Obama for wearing 'mom jeans' while Russia¿s president 'wrestles bears' and projects a much tougher image on the world stage

'Mom jeans': Obama sported loose denim in the White House while taking with Putin on Saturday about the situation in Ukraine Putin projects strength and machismo with bare-chested riding and bear-wrestling, Palin said

Palin grabbed the media spotlight with a 'told-ya-so' moment over the weekend by pointing out on Facebook that she had predicted Putin's Ukraine invasion six years ago.

The one-time vice presidential candidate wrote a strongly worded post on Friday calling out her liberal critics for mocking her.

'Yes, I could see this one from Alaska,' Palin wrote. 'I'm usually not one to Told-Ya-So, but I did, despite my accurate prediction being derided as “an extremely far-fetched scenario” by the “high-brow” Foreign Policy magazine.'

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Foreign Policy published an article ridiculing her prediction that if then-Senator Barack Obama is elected into office, Russia under President Vladimir Putin would be emboldened to occupy Ukraine.

Palin's statements on the campaign trail came during an armed conflict that broke out between Russia and Georgia over the contested territory of South Ossetia.

Watch more of the Palin interview at Fox News

Russain troops met Ukraininan forces at an air base that Putin's military is occupying. The Russian president now says he doesn't intend to march into Eastern Ukraine, but still holds ferry terminals and other points of entry into the country's Crimea region

Alarming move: Russian President Vladimir Putin has received permission from the parliament to deploy Russian troops in Ukraine

‘After the Russian Army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama's reaction was one of indecision and moral equivalence, the kind of response that would only encourage Russia's Putin to invade Ukraine next,’ Palin told a crowd at a rally held in Reno, Nevada, in October 2008.

Palin's gloating Facebook post has been shared more than 18,000 times and has drawn more than 72,000 'likes.'

Speaking to Fox News' Todd Starnes, Palin said: 'We can expect more of this sort of thing in a world where America is gutting its military and “leading from behind.”’

Meanwhile, conservative talk radio host Mark Levin tweeted: 'Palin not only knows where Russia is, but she knew what Putin would do to Ukraine with Obama as president.'

Palin's self-congratulatory Facebook message comes as Russia appears to be poised on deploying ground forces across Ukraine, ostensibly to protect Russian nationals from ongoing violence, in the words of President Vladimir Putin.

Speaking at a press conference on the crisis in Ukraine, President Obama has warned that 'there will be costs' if Russia invades the neighboring country, where pro-Russian and pro-European Union factions have been fighting in the streets for the past month.

