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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IF his point stopped with “Cable news hosts make money creating fear” he would be dead on. Every single one of them drum up drama and fear. That is how we have gotten into most of the trouble and conflicts our country has been involved in over the last 30+ years.
Fear, however, has nothing to do with waning support for Ukraine among conservatives. If anything, we are recovering from the delusion that we had any business getting as involved with Ukraine as we have so far. We are coming to the rational conclusion that it isn’t worth adding 100s of billions to our debt, decreasing our own military readiness by handing over short supplies of hardware and risking a direct conflict with Russia for the sake a of a corrupt kleptocracy.
Do I think Ukraine has every right to defend themselves? Absolutely! Do I believe that we should be sending them billions in direct military aid? Prove it to me.
Appropriate quote here from Marx Himself: “he may talk like an idiot and look like an idiot. But don’t let that fool you. He really is an idiot. - Groucho Marx (Duck Soup, 1933).”
True that
Trump is trying to prove that Putin owns him, and Trump tribalists follow the demented orange piper
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