Zelensky pleads for US military aid, says if Biden acted sooner ‘there would not have been war’

NYPost.com ^ | 3/5/22 | Eileen AJ Connelly

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Zelensky pleads for US military aid, says if Biden acted sooner ‘there would not have been war’

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky chided the Biden administration for not slapping sanctions on Russia’s Vladimir Putin sooner in an emotional, approximately hour-long Zoom call with 280 US senators and House members Saturday morning.

“If you had started sanctions months ago, there would not have been war,” he said, Fox News reported.

Zelensky thanked the US for the assistance it has already sent, and pleaded for additional American military aid for his besieged country, a Senate source said.

Dozens of lawmakers unmuted themselves to thank Zelensky for his bravery as the call came to an end – with some pledging “Slava Ukraini” — Glory to Ukraine, a source told CNN.

The embattled Ukrainian leader expressed support for a potential US boycott of Russian oil, in response to a question posed by West Virginia’s Sen. Joe Manchin, the Senate source said.

[Williams]

So you changed your argument.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

So you changed your argument?

[Magnum44]

Maybe, but Ukraine wasn’t offered any help before it was too late either. As you said, the writing was on the wall.

[Tennessee Nana]

Z knows Joe’s a phony loser !!!

[know.your.why]

...not going to win him any friends in the MSM.

Remarks by resident Biden on Russia’s Unprovoked and Unjustified Attack on Ukraine
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
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SPEECHES AND REMARKS
East Room
1:43 P.M. EST

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/02/24/remarks-by-president-biden-on-russias-unprovoked-and-unjustified-attack-on-ukraine/

Q Thank you, resident Biden. If sanctions cannot stop President Putin, what penalty can?

THE RESIDENT: I didn’t say sanctions couldn’t stop him.

Q But you’ve been talking about the threat of these sanctions for several weeks now —

THE RESIDENT: Yes, but the threat of the sanctions and imposing the sanctions and seeing the effect of the sanctions are two different things.

Q Okay, but —

THE RESIDENT: They’re two different things. And we’re now going to — he’s going to begin to see the effect of the sanctions.

Q And what will that do — how will that change his mindset here, given he’s attacking Ukraine as we speak?

THE RESIDENT: Because it will so weaken his country that he’ll have to make a very, very difficult choices of whether to continue to move toward being a second-rate power or, in fact, respond.

Q You said, in recent weeks, that big nations cannot bluff when it comes to something like this. You recently said that the idea of personally sanctioning President Putin was on the table. Is that a step that you’re prepared to take? And if not —

THE RESIDENT: It’s not a bluff; it’s on the table.

Q Sanctioning President Putin?

THE RESIDENT: Yes.

Q Why not sanction him today, sir? Why not sanction him today, sir?

Q Mr. resident —

[Tennessee Nana]

Thats so Joe wants to be a war time president ...

Like FDR ...

[Dartoid]

“Zelenskyy complains a lot.

He is the Greta Thunberg of Ukraine.”

Go walk in his shoes then get back to us on that.

[Williams]

Worth repeating that Biden’s approach was to have Kelensky flee.

[SaxxonWoods]

Biden? Look at him, he hasn’t slept since the Cuban missile crisis.

[faucetman]

If Trump were still president, Putin would NEVER have done this.

[Magnum44]

Zelensky is proving to be far more the man than potato head Biden.

[faucetman]

I LOVE this photo!

It shows just how much we miss by wearing masks.

Nancy: “I love you Joey B! You complete me!”

Cameltoe: “This idiot is putting me to sleep”

Brandon: “Who are all those people out there?”

[roving]

Look up qualifications to join NATO. Ukraine fails at every step. People still keep posting this lie Ukraine was going to be part of NATO.

[windsorknot]

Zelenskyy complains a lot.

Yeah, I don’t want to hear you complain when thieves break into your home.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/ukraine-president-says-nation-is-ready-to-join-nato

[Savage Beast]

"if Biden acted sooner ‘there would not have been war’ "

WHAT A SICK JOKE!

IF TRUMP WERE STILL PRESIDENT, THERE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN WAR!

THERE WAS NO WAR DURING THE ENTIRE TRUMP PRESIDENCY!

[faucetman]

I don’t care about Ukraine or Russia, but Putin has/had no business in INVADING Ukraine. NONE!

It’s not a “rescue”, its an INVASION!

I hope this is the END of Putin. He will learn that you can’t give people “a little bit” of FREEDOM. The Russian people will oust Putin over this. Once they start to suffer at home.

In NO WAY should ONE American die for Ukraine. In NO WAY should we help Ukraine militarily. No bullets, no money. Just humanitarian aid. Food and medical supplies.

Maybe Mike Lindell can send Ukraine some pillows?

NO MORE WARS! NO PROXY WARS! NO NATION BUILDING!

[Jumper]

Biden and Z are strange bedfellows. Both weilded together by corruption.

Z has buyer’s remorse now. He should have prosecuted Hunter and this would have never happened.

[blackberry1]

Zelensky is a billlionaire. He afraid his golden goose just got stolen.

He’s a professional actor. Folks.....he’s a phony....

[rfp1234]

I could speculate that perhaps Bidet was willing to let Putin win quickly and partition Ukraine, in exchange for supporting the ridiculous Iran nuke deal.

Then Iran would have sold its oil to U.S. energy prices wouldn't skyrocket so badly, and Bidet would not be under pressure to re-open U.S. to drilling and fracking.