MSNBC’s Alex Wagner: Obama Hasn’t Focused on Foreign Policy Because His Heart’s Not in It

MSNBC host Alex Wagner opened her program on Tuesday with an investigation into the logic behind Russia’s invasion of the Crimean Peninsula. After noting that President Barack Obama’s approach to foreign affairs has been extensively criticized in recent days, Wagner submitted that Obama has never articulated a coherent foreign policy vision because “his heart has never been in it.”

“A lot has about the administration’s foreign policy in recent weeks and especially recent days, and a lot of it has been critical of the president,” Wagner began. “And I’m sort of the camp that, you know, I’m not sure if the president could have done anything to prevent Vladimir Putin from doing what he was going to do, but it puts the White House in a position where their foreign policy seems incredibly reactive and has so, for almost the recent past, I mean, years at this point.”

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“We know, through rhetoric, that the president has wanted to pivot to Asia, but events beyond his control have forced him to look to the Middle East and to Eastern Europe,” she continued. “And one gets sense, perhaps his heart has never been in it, he hasn’t truly organized or articulated a foreign policy the way that he perhaps would if it was another region of the world.”

Watch the clip below via MSNBC:

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