By David Martosko, U.s. Political Editor PUBLISHED: 11:46 EST, 14 March 2014 | UPDATED: 12:37 EST, 14 March 2014 The crisis in Ukraine 'would have been different' if Mitt Romney had been elected president, according to a former Republican Virginia governor. President Barack Obama, said Jim Gilmore, is sacrificing America's national security on the altar of rank partisanship, blaming Republican-led cuts in the rate of spending growth for new limits on America's involvement abroad. 'He's satisfying himself with "Well, I have to scale back our safety because of you, because of your sequester,"' Gilmore told MailOnline, referring to a series of Defense Department budget cuts put in place as a dicey solution to a congressional budget stalemate in 2012.
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Jim Gilmore told MailOnline that the president is blaming Republican-led cuts in the growth of government spending for a lax foreign policy
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He suggested if Obama had lost his 2012 re-election bid, Russia's Vladimir Putin would have approached a President Mitt Romney with more fear
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Japan, the UK and the rest of Europe, said Gilmore, wants to see a strong America as a disincentive to Russia and other aggressive states
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Obama 'doesn't seem to have the experience himself, because of his background,' to run an effective foreign policy, he said,
Gilmore says Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's more aggressive foreign policy would likely have made the Russian president sit on his hands instead of invading @placeholder