Mitt Romney hasn’t pulled any punches lately on his assessment of Obama’s handling of foreign policy in his second term. At a fundraiser Tuesday in West Virginia, Romney told reporters that Obama had done “a good deal worse than even I expected.” Appearing alongside his former running mate Paul Ryan Thursday night on Megyn Kelly, Romney expanded on his criticism of the president, saying that he “can’t begin to explain the president’s foreign policy” and calling the Russia reset “one of the most embarrassing incidents in American foreign policy.”  

Kelly began the segment by asking Romney if he believed the president was misleading people about his failure to leave residual forces in Iraq. Romney responded by saying that the president had made "extraordinary errors" and “underestimated the extent of the threat represented by terror in the world and specifically ISIS” in his handling of both Iraq and Syria and “as a result now we find ourselves facing a very severe and horrific series of scenes on the world stage.”

Kelly led into Romney’s comments on Russia by playing a clip of Obama mocking Romney’s claim in 2012 that Russia was America’s biggest geopolitical threat and asking him if he felt “vindicated” with the events in Ukraine. Romney dismissed the idea of vindication, and instead focused on the international consequences and massive foreign policy embarrassment of the failed “Russian reset”:

He underestimated Russia. This whole reset policy with Hillary Clinton smiling ear from ear pressing a red reset button, I think is one of the most embarrassing incidents in American foreign policy, the idea that we wanted to give more flexibility to Russia and Vladimir Putin. Vladimir Putin has taken the measure of the president and decided that he can go into Ukraine and grab territory. That is something which, I think, was contributed to by the president's miscalculation.

Romney said in summary that President Obama has no clearly defined foreign policy, something on which he actually agrees with Hillary Clinton—who he points out is obviously trying to distance herself from her former boss in preparation for 2016:

I can't begin to explain the president's foreign policy. I think Hillary Clinton tried to explain it by saying there wasn't a foreign policy, in effect, and rarely did I agree with what Hillary Clinton had to say, but on that topic I think we agreed. I think it's interesting that she tries to distance herself from the president's foreign policy given the fact she was his secretary of state for four years, but, that being said, the president's policies have contributed to some of the crises that we're seeing around the world, whether in Ukraine, whether in Syria, in Iraq and other places in the world, northern Africa to name just a few.

H/T Breitbart TV. Transcript, video via Fox News.