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GOP Sen. Portman: 'I don't understand' why US not transferring jets to Ukraine
The hill ^ | 03/13/2022 | Mychael Schnell

Posted on 03/13/2022 8:46:58 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) on Sunday questioned why the U.S. rejected Poland’s proposal to transfer MiG-29 fighter jets to a U.S. air base in Germany, saying “I don’t understand why we’re not doing it.”

Asked by co-anchor Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union” if he is worried that Poland giving planes to Ukraine could trigger World War III, Portman said “I don't know why that would be true.”

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RINO putz
1 posted on 03/13/2022 8:46:58 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If you get involved in a fight between two snakes you are going to get bit…..by both snakes.


2 posted on 03/13/2022 8:49:43 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

SMDH! Friggin’ republicrats......................


3 posted on 03/13/2022 8:50:15 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Erik Prince outlined an option to the WH for planes to Ukraine in front of an invasion, which the WH rejected. Prince’s idea looked less belligerent than a move now.

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/blackwater-ukraine-russia-sanctions/2022/03/03/id/1059575/


4 posted on 03/13/2022 8:50:33 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

For starters, Portman likely doesn’t have a connection to the Red Phone in the White House.


5 posted on 03/13/2022 8:50:46 AM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Oy vey.


6 posted on 03/13/2022 8:51:00 AM PDT by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle Mom)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Rob Portman, with another dazzling display of Neocon stupidity.

Ignore him, shun him and reject the rancid political apparatus that nurtured him.

7 posted on 03/13/2022 8:51:05 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Because he’s an idiot


8 posted on 03/13/2022 8:51:09 AM PDT by Nifster (I’m see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

These people want to put Americans in harms way to defend one of the most corrupt places on earth. I say let’s send the political trash over there to fight.


9 posted on 03/13/2022 8:51:58 AM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths; 2021: My main take away from this year? Trust no one.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And awhile back a lot of other RINO putzes like this assclown for POTUS...Dodged a big bullet there...


10 posted on 03/13/2022 8:52:06 AM PDT by elteemike (Light is faster than sound; that's why so many people appear bright until you hear them speak.)
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Let’s think about Pearl Harbor....Suppose “X” supplied the planes and pilots....Who would we go after?


11 posted on 03/13/2022 8:52:49 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: SE Mom

It’s because a senator Portman pays no price for statements like that. President Biden would.

Did Saddam have WMD? I think he had plenty of time to hide them if so. Could a President Bush not take the subject seriously?


12 posted on 03/13/2022 8:53:48 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (S)
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“I don’t know why that would be true.”

That is due to your being an idiot, senator. If someone is arming my enemy I will do what is necessary to stop him. Shall Russia attack us for this action? They would be justified in doing so. I think the esteemed senator should STFU.


13 posted on 03/13/2022 8:54:27 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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What gets me is that these Republicans go on these stupid liberal Sunday shows that hate their guts anyway. That’s more infuriating than them making the statements themselves.


14 posted on 03/13/2022 8:54:49 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (The GOP is the UN of US politics)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This guy is stupid Jim.


15 posted on 03/13/2022 8:55:32 AM PDT by dforest
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It’s really a shame we can’t put all of the children of the congressmen and senators into infantry units.

This crap would end immediately.


16 posted on 03/13/2022 8:56:47 AM PDT by datura (Eventually, the Lord and the Truth will win.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Do not provoke Russian nationalism.

Right now Putin gets the blame for attacking Ukraine.

Russia is losing in Ukraine. Don’t give Putin the opportunity to avoid blame otherwise he will retain power.


17 posted on 03/13/2022 8:59:26 AM PDT by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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To: SE Mom

Well senator we know why..

Here ya go..prog rock Free video

Requiem for Ukraine and the world

https://rumble.com/vwd2iv-requiem-for-ukraine-and-the-world.html


18 posted on 03/13/2022 8:59:30 AM PDT by aces (and )
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Taking a subject seriously and giving them time to disperse and hide them and then acting upon it was idiotic to say the least. You know, egg on the face stuff.

We won zilch from all the death in Iraq other than getting rid of Hussein and his rotten boys. Meanwhile, Iraq is a freaking mess.


19 posted on 03/13/2022 9:01:03 AM PDT by dforest
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Asked by co-anchor Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union” if he is worried that Poland giving planes to Ukraine could trigger World War III, Portman said “I don't know why that would be true.”

I agree!

If Russia unilaterally attacking and invading a peaceful Ukraine didn't trigger WW III (i.e., didn't provoke NATO into launching a full-scale retaliatory war) - then why should providing an attacked and invaded Ukraine with weapons to defend itself against and ward off an unlawful invader trigger WW III (i.e., provoke Russia into launching a full-scale retaliatory war)?

Regards,

20 posted on 03/13/2022 9:03:12 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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