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GOP to Tucker Carlson: We’re the decision-makers on Ukraine, not you
Politico ^ | February 1, 2022 | Andrew Desidero

Posted on 02/03/2022 8:04:45 AM PST by C19fan

Republican senators are unmoved by Tucker Carlson’s relentless warpath against support for Ukraine — even as it widens an existing rift in their party.

The Fox News prime time host and others on the far-right have excused and even rationalized Russia’s aggression toward Ukraine and downplayed its relevance to U.S. national security. And while GOP senators are shrugging off his name-and-shame campaign, Carlson’s views are permeating the GOP base in a way that could undermine Republicans’ efforts to emphasize cross-party unity as they seek to deter a Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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To: C19fan

Rino Republican senators are unmoved by Tucker Carlson’s relentless warpath against starting a war in the Ukraine for political theatre and profit and laundry.

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Fixed it.


81 posted on 02/03/2022 9:22:57 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: C19fan

Red Wave! Red Wave! Like a red tide. Cool to look at but worthless and eventually deadly!


82 posted on 02/03/2022 9:23:17 AM PST by The MAGA-Deplorian ( 2022 - VOTE THE BUMS OUT —— ALL OF THEM! RE-ELECT NO ONE!!)
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To: C19fan

I’ll take Tucker over ANY RINO/cRAT (almost the same thing).


83 posted on 02/03/2022 9:26:00 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: detch

My thinking, let the Europeans and Biden work it out. We don’t need to be there.


84 posted on 02/03/2022 9:27:48 AM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: C19fan

Anyone who is not 10X more serious about a military response to the invasion of the United States than they are about a military response to whatever happens in Ukraine is my enemy.

Please join me.


85 posted on 02/03/2022 9:31:10 AM PST by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: carriage_hill

AND more than enough fentanyl to kill every man, woman and child in this country.


86 posted on 02/03/2022 9:34:22 AM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: Eleutheria5

Cross party unity gives us people like Adam Kinzinger…..


87 posted on 02/03/2022 9:37:40 AM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

“It is entirely possible for us to support Ukraine without putting any US troops in the country. Weapons, supplies, and in particular up-to-date intelligence and satellite imagery. Doesn’t cost a single US life but might deter Russian aggression.”

You’re correct.

When Risch votes for sanctions against Russia for “democracy” the average American will be “eating” higher energy prices.
Risch is a stupid monkey, doing what he’s “told to do” by his masters in Washington DC.

What’s the difference between price controls & sanction stupidity?

Answer: Not very much.


88 posted on 02/03/2022 9:38:36 AM PST by unclebankster (Only the Woke Should Die Young!)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin
It is entirely possible for us to support Ukraine without putting any US troops in the country.

That's what they said about "Lend Lease" back in 1940, but we got into the war anyway.

89 posted on 02/03/2022 9:39:48 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: C19fan

90 posted on 02/03/2022 9:39:51 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: C19fan
What really gets me is as the US is sleepwalking to war

I doubt a war will happen. It's more likely Putin wants something and is putting the pressure on Biden. Biden will cave, everyone will go home, and we'll hear nonstop from the MSM that Biden prevented WWIII.

91 posted on 02/03/2022 9:40:25 AM PST by TwelveOfTwenty (Will whoever keeps asking if this country can get any more insane please stop?)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin
It is entirely possible for us to support Ukraine without putting any US troops in the country. Weapons, supplies, and in particular up-to-date intelligence and satellite imagery. Doesn’t cost a single US life but might deter Russian aggression.

Doesn't cost a single US life??

By becoming a belligerent in a war in which we have no interests, you put literally hundreds of millions of US lives at stake.

Russia is not Granada, or Panama, or Libya. It's not Serbia. It's not Iraq.

It is a well-armed nuclear power defending its vital interests in a matter where we have no vital interests at stake.

Supplying a belligerent army is being a belligerent yourself.

92 posted on 02/03/2022 9:42:01 AM PST by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: C19fan
[Carlson] and others on the far-right

Ha, ha, ha.

93 posted on 02/03/2022 9:43:43 AM PST by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: telescope115

Kick cross-party-unity in the balls and move on.


94 posted on 02/03/2022 9:49:30 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Buck Foe Jiden!I)
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To: C19fan

If Canada or Mexico had wanted to join the old Warsaw Pact, we’d have been unhappy, and would have taken action.

As it is, we tried an abortive attempt to invade Cuba when it went commie.

Joining NATO is not an inherent right of other nations. We become committed to going to war with whomever attacks other NATO members. It is insanity to offer such a commitment to all comers.

How about a treaty guaranteeing the NEUTRALITY of Ukraine signed by Russia and NATO? Or a similar arrangement?


95 posted on 02/03/2022 9:49:47 AM PST by sitetest (Professional patient. No longer mostly dead. Again. It's getting to be a habit.)
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To: sitetest

“How about a treaty guaranteeing the NEUTRALITY of Ukraine signed by Russia and NATO? Or a similar arrangement?”

Now there’s some constructive thinking.


96 posted on 02/03/2022 9:56:00 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Buck Foe Jiden!I)
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To: GOPJ; Chode
a stark departure from the tough-on-Russia posture that has defined the Republican Party since the start of the Cold War.

The problem is that since the start of the cold war, both parties have used our military irresponsibly. The result las been shameless lies, death, a weaker nation, and perpetual rule by selfish politicians and bureaucrats.

97 posted on 02/03/2022 9:56:41 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

“The problem is that since the start of the cold war, both parties have used our military”

...to enrich themselves with big payoffs from lobbyists of the military industrial complex.

All the billion words of “public policy debates” are designed to hide that simple fact.


98 posted on 02/03/2022 9:59:17 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: C19fan
Mr. Carlson hit a nerve to these RINOS....good. These same type of clowns who got the United States in 2 decades of war with trillions in costs wants the US to go to war against Russia over the Ukraine.

Well on the upside, a hot war with Russia won't last two decades. This would be two world class militaries facing each other, not a disorganized bunch of radical jihadi guerillas that we choose to fight with one arm tied behind our backs so the press doesn't call us meanies. That sort of scenario leads to forever-war. That's not this.

99 posted on 02/03/2022 9:59:23 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: C19fan

Voters to GOP: No you aren’t.


100 posted on 02/03/2022 10:06:43 AM PST by Boogieman
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