Posted on 03/05/2022 12:08:44 PM PST by 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.
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It’s a disaster. Biden is a train wreck.
There have been between 80 and 120 wars/conflicts ragining annually since the beginning of the 50’s. No one cares about Africa, all of SE Asia between Thailand-India-China.
In the minds of people who think they care, they don’t dig too far for the truth of unending wars.
Now if you are only talking about Europe, you might have a point but as for the world you are “dead wrong”.
NATO didn’t follow your logic either, even in Europe when it split Yugosolovia up.
Nancy’s thinking “He’s so dreamy!’’
My sentiments exactly. No more pointless wars in place most Americans have never heard of.
You need to step back and take a deep breath.
You are really becoming unhinged.
Me too. Putin attacked Ukraine after Biden assured him, that he will do NOTHING!
You cannot do that when dealing with bullies!
I’m not answering you anymore.
Zelensky is certainly way up there on the Top Ten List of the world’s worst kvetches.
Zelensky is right about the sanctions but what’s happening now with sanctions against Russia is what should have happened in 2014. It should not have taken eight years to realize that invading someone else’s country is wrong.
And the lack of a strong response in 2014 is what directly led to Putin’s calculation that he could steal the whole country and get away with it.
“I hate to tell you this but since the 1940s, it never been acceptable for one nation to invade another simply because it disagrees with their politics”
Since the 1940s, the US has invaded:
Cuba (The Bay of Pigs - funded by the CIA) George HW Bush was head of the CIA
Iraq (2003)
Cambodia (1970)
Syria (How soon we forget...)
Haiti 1991
Grenada 1983
And there are others.
The US should clean up its own act.
Hunter worked for Ukraine. Come on man!
Isn’t Zelensky the guy who ignored his country’s defense for decades and ignored Biden’s warning of an invasion?
To be fair I didn’t believe Biden, either.
Man can u not tell Biden made promises for all that cash
Pitiful
“in exchange for supporting the ridiculous Iran nuke deal.”
OMG, you were right!! Putin and Kremlin said they are linked!!! Just came out
What is that miserable creature doing with her hands? She looks like a praying mantis!
Uhh, if you chose to help Trump when you had the chance, there would not have been war, Mr. Z.
What’s even more bizarre is she was responding to Biden talking about US veterans dealing with toxic burn pits in Afghanistan and she jumps up and puts her hands together like that as if she just heard Bob Barker call her name on the Price is right. She’s utterly insane.
Hunter Biden served on the board of the Ukrainian oil and gas company Burisma Holdings from 2014 to 2019.
Mykola Zlochevsky, Burisma’s founder, was the subject of a series of criminal investigations in Ukraine, but (thanks to Biden,) he was cleared.
Hunter worked a for crooked Ukrainian company, not at all for anybody associated with the Ukrainian state. The Ukrainian state was trying to prosecute this company and Hunter was paid to get Joe to protect them.
So, it is not Ukraine, but Biden’s who are corrupt!
Zelansky had three years to come to fulfill campaign promises to Donbas and come to agreement with Rooskis.
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