Posted on 02/22/2023 6:31:34 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
CNN political commentator former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) said Tuesday on “Anderson Cooper 360” that Republicans were not in favor of giving aid to Ukraine because “cable TV news hosts make a lot of money on creating fear.”
Cooper said, “There have been polls the past few weeks shown softening support for sending more money and military equipment to Ukraine, especially among Republicans.”
Kinzinger said, “This is what happens when you lack leadership. So on foreign policy, American people generally are willing to either go to war or give aid or support our allies in war as long as somebody stands in front of them and makes the case for that. I think Joe Biden needs to do a little better job of that. I think his trip was great and sends a strong message. But the Republican side, who is an elected Republican in politics out there making the case for the war? There may be a few I haven’t heard them. Instead, what you see is profit centers, whether they are blogs, whether they are other cable TV news hosts, make a lot of money on creating fear, on owning the libs, whatever it is of the day, and that’s what the war has become.”
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This Republican favors neither side. Russia was wrong to invade, but Biden and Ukraine have given him reasons. Sufficient reason, no; but Biden wanted this war. Of that there is no doubt. He wants a place in the history books.
I favor a cease fire and negotiated settlement, NOW!!!
Don’t forget insurection.
Supplying military weapons and humanitarian aid is one thing. Supplying our cash to pay for Uke government payroll and pensions, not to mention the graft, is another.
armistance - stop the killing first
plebliscites - let democracy do its stuff second
Joe Biden claims to like democracy.
Biden was too slow to deter the invasion first by saying he would allow a minor incursion then slow to provide tanks and weapons. When Russia was building up they should have loaded the Ukrainian army for bear, so to speak. Russia would not have invaded. Now we are in what might amount to a forever proxy war, until it escalates.
“He is a whining political hack who desperately craves relevancy”
And yet here we are talking about him......sometimes I think we should take a page out of the liberal playbook and blackout and ignore people we disagree with instead of giving them publicly they otherwise wouldn’t get....that especially goes for right leaning media outlets.
Liberals have proven it to be a very effective tactic.....
“weaken our military”
A strong military only encourages a depraved DC to ruin America.
I voted for Trump electors in 2016 and 2020. I want a weak military.
Use the money saved to maintain the Social Security system.
[I’m 64.]
Thank you.
Compound that with the treatment of East Palestine, OH USA among other things, and its a lot worse.
I'm pretty sure its not going unnoticed. And when the same try to use their vote to protest, it doesn't appear to change things, especially the last two elections.
I don't think a 'rally round the flag' gambit is going to work the way Biden's handlers think it will work, despite the best efforts of their mockingbird ancillaries.
Maybe we should all be concerned with the possibility of nuclear war. Biden is taunting Putin and China and is way out of his league since he is demented and becoming senile.
Wrong.
LOL
Until there are n more homeless in this country, until everyone in this country had jobs, until we are no longer deficit spending, NO FOREIGN AID AT ALL!!! Take care of OUR citizens FIRST.
The WEFtard is projecting. The whole ukraine thing is a fear mongering exercise trying to make a molehill turf war between two corrupt mafia dons into something that America needs to be panicked about.
Though a nutter he be, he edges closes to some important points. He is correct that media make money by stirring controversy and fear. Kinzinger positions those who oppose war as dangerous fearmongers, 1984-style: War is Good. Peace is Bad. Pundits pushing Biden’s World War 3 are doing it for partisan political reasons. If some media make a few dollars off fear and war-mongering, isn’t dumbass ignoring the billions made by the military-industrial class?
Kinzinger is certainly correct that the US has an absence of leadership.
NO ONE made a case for our decades long policy of pulling Eastern European states into NATO’s orbit to encircle Russia.
NO ONE has made a case for our proxy war in Ukraine against Russia, that the above policy made almost inevitable (Yes Putin and Russia share blame).
NO ONE has explained how spending hundreds of billions is wise or sustainable when the USA is bankrupt.
Yet without any case being made or seriously debated, the US has recently spent over $100 Billion in borrowed funds on a war that few Americans understand. If Ukraine had bowed to Russia’s will without a war, and given them Luhansk and Donetsk, would that have had an effect on Americans’ lives other than the small percentage with Ukrainian relatives and ancestors?
Would the energy crisis that is driving world inflation, creating vast misery in Europe, bankrupting our allies and ourselves, and creating an international food crisis have occurred?
Americans are allowing this crap to happen without debate. Were these issues mentioned in the 2020 election? 2022? Biden can’t “make the case to the American People” now, because there is no case to be made, other than that now we “can’t let Russia win”. Russia attacking Ukraine simply never was a crisis for the United States. But leadership doesn’t matter, because we do not have a democracy. The public has become irrelevant to what the government does, and the government laughs in our faces about it.
His assumption is that all who oppose further aid are stupid.
Because he is stupid.
“A political disaster” because neocons returns home to the Democrat party where they belong?
Nay.
A new beginning.
Latest poll shows only 17% of Republicans support supporting Ukraine in a major way.
They have a contingent here.
Yes of course Adam...on the other hand, the “big guy” is definitely getting his 10% cut from Ukraine.
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