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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-PJ
I’ve read that Zelensky has put anti-aircraft guns near or on these areas.
I have no idea what is fact and what is fiction.
Met a woman from Poland today. She thinks both leaders are thugs.
Finland already has more joint cooperation with NATO than Ukraine did. They are literally more of a threat to Russia, if you believe Putin’s agitprop, than Ukraine is.
Putin is KGB. Through and through. He was actively part of the Soviet machine. A Europe “united” under Russian control is his goal. Megalomania is a disease with no cure and explains his actions far better than “Ukraine was getting too cozy with the West”...
Oh, so you think the Ukraine situation is similar to Cuba? Let's look at that for a second.
We never forbade Cuba from being a Russian ally. Cuba is perfectly free to be allied with Russia. What we objected to was the Russians putting nuclear missiles in Cuba. In fact, there were Soviet/Russian troops in Cuba for many years, and we accepted it as long as they weren't nuclear.
We have never threatened or proposed putting nuclear missiles in Ukraine, and it would be entirely possible for there to be an express agreement that we would not do so even if Ukraine became a member of NATO. Being an ally does not have to equate to housing nuclear missiles, and Cuba itself proves that point.
Ukraine even offered not to join NATO at all as long as it could get security guarantees from other countries, and Russia rejected even that. So this has never, ever been about Russia feeling threatened. This is about Russia wanting to keep Ukraine isolated so that it can use military force or the threat of force to turn Ukraine into a puppet state.
So your Cuba analogy falls very flat.
Iraq invaded another country, then breached the terms of the ceasefire to which it had agreed with us.
Thanks-—that makes sense. Also, here is a post from another site that was going back and forth on Russia and Ukraine. This poster grew up in the Ukraine and has family there. I’m just trying to understand this more and your response, if I’m reading it correctly seems to go along the same reasoning:
“But on the related and much more comical note, Russian government allocated $5 billion few years ago to work on pro Russian influence and building prorussian political organizations in Ukraine. Department responsible was reporting on huge success and this was one of the few reasons that convinced Putin his troops will have little to no resistance.
But in reality, in the very Slavic fashion, the vast majority of those money were stolen by few principal actors and all progress reports were complete bulls*it.”
Great big Russian bear. At one point the largest military in the world. Most tanks, most ships, most nuclear missiles, largest contiguous land mass occupied by one Country.
Ukraine. Size of Texas.
Yeah... Comparatively... Mike Tyson in his prime vs Mr. Bean.
However, now we’re getting data that suggests the Russian Federation is no longer the Great Bear... But possibly more like a red panda. Smaller and endangerd.
Should be easy pickings for Mongolia if they attack out East where the old Soviet bio-weapons labs were supposedly located. I’ve those Hu videos... Mongolian throat yodeling is terrifying.
WOW!
The Congretional website of Madison Cawthorn states he is “an 8th generation resident of North Carolina’s 11th Congressional district. His ancestors have served Western North Carolina communities for over 200 years including in the Revolutionary War.”
Cawthorn had implied that he was accepted to the U.S. Naval Academy, and launched a website accusing a journalist of leaving a job at Boston College “to work for non-white males, like Cory Booker, who aims to ruin white males running for office.”
Additionally, a number of women who attended college with Cawthorn have accused him of sexual misconduct, charges that he has denied.
Madison Cawthorn had photos on his Instagram page showing him visiting Adolf Hitler’s vacation house in Germany known as the “Eagle’s Nest”in in 2017. His caption refers to Hitler as “the Fuhrer” and says that a visit to the site had been on his “bucket list for awhile” and “did not disappoint.”
He recently made headlines for driving with a revoked license, his third reported traffic violation in the last six months. Cawthorn was partially paralyzed due to a 2014 car accident.
I’m talking gulf war 2. The one based on lies about WOMD, that led to 800,000 or more civ deaths, trillions of wasted dollars and thousands of mamed and killed U.S service personnel.
He’s mostly right
Oligarch despot versus oligarch despot sin quo non
Let ‘em settle it between Slavs
I haven't been following any real-time information like that. Still, I have to ask this question:
If a mobile SAM is being driven through a city as it is being repositioned against an incoming column of infantry and artillery, and it happens to be driven down a street past a hospital, does that count as being "near" those areas?
I can accept if a SAM battery were stationed in the courtyard of a hospital, but I don't see any wreckage in the courtyard, so there was likely no SAM there. But if it happened to be traveling down a nearby street while being redeployed, I don't think that would count as hiding weapons behind a human shield.
It's the nature of those weapons -- fire them and then move them before the enemy gets a lock on its position. I choose not to believe that a SAM was stationed at the hospital, or someone would have seen a launch smoke trail coming out from there.
All that said, so far the Russian military hasn't shown me the skill that they've had in the past. Vehicle columns that run out of gas, recruits who thought they were on a training deployment, senior officers in the front lines getting killed, random shelling. If Putin thought this would be over in a few days and then he got bogged down after crossing the border, his own generals were misrepresenting the state of his army.
I can believe that an army like that is indiscriminately firing out of frustration.
-PJ
Didn't have much of a choice. Our CIA-led invasion of Cuba in 1961 failed spectacularly, as did all of our attempts to assassinate their head of state.
You’re absorbing the propaganda
If Russia wished they could destroy uke urban areas in short order
They are committing a fraction of their resources
Putin had some success softening up Crimea, and before that... Georgia. From what I understand about post-Soviet Russian culture, it makes perfect sense that graft and fraud are rampant.
Some of their music reflects a very Nietzsche-sque flavor to it. Very much “survival of the most fit”/”stab you in the back if I can’t reach your front”/”everything sucks” attitude.
It’s like some of these are paid trolls
Every thread shouting down ad hominem at any dissent
Many were nevertrumpers
Not a shock
This “We didn’t embark on a terror campaign against an invaded country.”
This is so patently false. Just fess up. Shock and Awe was a terror campaign. Effective , but an instrument to terrify an invaded populace.
Representative Madison Cawthorn is a sure enough RINO, almost a democrat! I thought he was a democrat because of his attacks on Zelensky until I looked him up in Wikipedia. I think his attack is a way to get his name in the news. The Ukrainian people were living peaceful in their land when Putin invaded. Rep. Cawthorn is mixed up about who is the thug.
As far as I’m concerned, no matter who’s propaganda prevails in the thuggery war, Putin lost all moral high ground when he began shelling apartments, evacuation routes, nuclear plants, and maternity hospitals.
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Sure, Putin started the fighting; but be skeptical of one-sided, exaggerated “atrocity” reports when they are all coming from woke media that supports the woke side of any conflict.
No surprise that YAHOO picks up the story on this dingleberry!
Also there was uncertainity about Castro due to very positive New York Times coverage as to what flavor revolutionary he actually was.
Should have never repealed the Platt Amendment!
It or something like was the only way the Monroe Doctrine could be enforced. FDR’s “Good Neighbor Policy” got it repealed, this sufficently weakened the Monroe Doctrine and allowed the USSR to exploit. Good intentions make poor foreign policy particularly when its in your backyard.
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