Posted on 03/10/2022 12:33:17 PM PST by entropy12
Yahoo News GOP Rep. Cawthorn calls Zelensky ‘a thug,’ says Ukraine is pushing ‘woke ideologies’ Christopher Wilson Christopher Wilson·Senior Writer Thu, March 10, 2022, 1:51 PM EST Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C., called Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky a "thug" at a campaign event over the weekend.
"Remember that Zelensky is a thug," Cawthorn said in a video obtained by WRAL. "Remember that the Ukrainian government is incredibly corrupt and is incredibly evil and has been pushing woke ideologies."
The 26-year-old Cawthorn’s statement is a deviation from mainstream Republican support of Zelensky and the Ukrainian people as they defend themselves against the Russian invasion, but it echoes other comments made at the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump.
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Ukraine or Mongolia? Either way, I hope she was able to take away some positive life experience.
I haven’t been to either Country, although seeing Kiev was on my bucket list up until recently...
Bingo!
Saddam was a U.S pal before he was an enemy. Can’t you just admit that America has done on occasions what it accuses other nations of doing. It’s what big powers have always done. It’s not a virtue contest.
Mongolia.
I'll admit that our support of the French colonies in Vietnam may have started out plain enough, but escalated out of control after Kennedy was assassinated. The proxy wars over stopping communism were devastating to the countries where they occurred.
Was Grenada one of your examples? We went in with six other Caribbean nations after their Prime Minister was assassinated in a coup.
Iraq? I already told you what I believe about Iraq.
Libya? Hillary Clinton's folly? I'll give you that one.
Iran/Contra? We didn't send in the troops.
Are there more? What am I missing?
-PJ
"Remember that the Ukrainian US government is incredibly corrupt and is incredibly evil and has been pushing woke ideologies."
The stank of Russian agitprop is strong on this thread. Lots of unfamiliar posters too!
Of course we had a choice. But we accepted that having Russian troops in Cuba was legal as long as they weren’t nuclear capable. That was our position with respect to Cuba for decades, which is why your point about the Cuban Missile Crisis somehow meaning that Ukraine can’t join NATO was so completely backwards.
Good point. Maybe Mr. Clean with the moral high ground (only to the denizens of Bizarro World like Cawthorn), a/k/a the thug and criminal Vlad Putin, should invade the USA and clean up all the corruption and promulgation of wokeness here.
I didn't bring up the Cuban Missile Crisis. Perhaps that was another poster. I'm just saying we tried to invade a sovereign nation (before the CMC) and when that failed, we attempted to assassinate the head of state multiple times. For what reason? Because they aligned with the commies? Because they nationalized companies that were owned by Americans? Is that a good enough reason to invade a country?
I'm not saying Russia has the right to invade Ukraine. It just seems that powerful nations can make up any excuse to go to war with less powerful nations. The US is no exception, and I don't think the other poster's analogy of using Cuba is necessarily out of line.
Reality of life. The strong always defeat the weak since humans came down from the trees.
“I can believe that an army like that is indiscriminately firing out of frustration.”
Agree with you there but I can also believe Zelensky is a Soro’s puppet and would put a hard spin on a story to gain sympathy.
Could Putin be doing this so he doesn’t have WMD on his borders? If so I don’t blame him. We did something similar with Cuba during Kennedy.
All I know for sure is that I don’t want American troops in this mess.
For the reasons I gave, that's pretty cracked reasoning.
I guess it's a matter of perspective.
I thought that NATO was a defensive pact that wasn't looking to invade countries. They might be growing the membership of NATO, but I don't think they were doing so in order to amass an overwhelming invasion force.
On the other hand, I think the Soviet worldview is that everyone is an aggressor, just like them. I think that Putin sees threats everywhere, where NATO sees human interest everywhere. NATO can say they won't be a threat to Russia, and Putin will say it's a lie. Putin will say that NATO is hiding chem weapons to use against Russia, because Russia has chem weapons to use against NATO.
-PJ
I heard Cawthorn was on the hit list of some kind of political shenanigans by a Soros funded group to unseat Conservatives like him......I like the kid, and MTG and Lauren Bobert.The old farts in the Republican Party are getting their corrupt drawers in a wad over these 3.....Chip Roy is another that doesn’t hold back. Hope they all stomp the stuffing out of their Demonrat opponents.
The Founding of our Country, and Western civilization itself, was supposed to be a way of us interacting with each other on a much less "cudgel to brain" kind of way. I've always thought it took the "teeth" out of being human and allowed the weak to brow beat the strong. Not always a bad thing... Until you apply it to the likes of Chuck Schumer or Don Lemon. Two more deserving of a savage beat down are hard to find.
You may enjoy this then.
Good for Cawthorn for being honest.great guy
there goes the McConnell money
this is Mark Meadows old district nc-11
Right?
NATO should have been dissolved with the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union.
I suppose if you look at exactly the blockade portion of the Cuban Missile Crisis, then you are correct. I wasn’t really seeing that as an isolated incident however, and I don’t think anyone can.
Immediately prior to the Soviets installing missiles in Cuba, the United States led an invasion of Cuba to overthrow its leader. When that failed, we attempted to assassinate its leader. This is because Cuba was aligned with the Soviets.
The same year as the Bay of Pigs Invasion (which is prior to the CMC), the United States deployed Jupiter ICBMs in Turkey. Not only did Turkey border the Soviet Union, but those missiles were within range of Moscow. The Soviet Union responded by installing ballistic missiles in Cuba. The rest is history...
None of this justifies the Russian invasion of Ukraine of course, but I think it’s a valid analogy. Did the US have the right to lead the BOP Invasion? (Okay, yes that’s technically different than the CMC, but I don’t see them as separate conflicts as much as two different incidents in a larger conflict.)
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