Former Vice President Dick Cheney says President Obama is being pushed around by Vladimir Putin.

Cheney appeared on Fox News Sunday and pointed to Obama's unilateral withdrawal of the planned missile defense program in Poland as an example:

"I think you've got to look beyond just that most immediate crisis. Obviously, we've got to deal with that. But there has developed over the years of the Obama administration, I think, a sense on the part of others that we have a weak government.

We saw, for example, at the mere request from Putin, President Obama withdrew the plans for a missile defense program based in Poland and the Czech Republic. He's demonstrated repeatedly, I think, that he, in fact, can be pushed around, if you will, by a -- by the Putins. And I don't think by -- Mr. Putin has any hesitation at all, from the standpoint of the American president, of changing his course of action.

I think he's taken advantage of this opportunity when he thinks we have a weak president to try to restore some of the old Soviet Union."

Cheney also pointed out that the Bush Administration took some actions in response to Putin's similar aggression toward Georgia in 2008. Cheney said that unlike Obama, the Bush Administration "provided various kinds of supplies" to the Georgian government to resist Putin's incursion as well as other types of logistical assistance including transporting Georgian soldiers back from Iraq and sending U.S. ships into the Black Sea.

(H/T RCP)