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Pence says there's 'no room' in GOP leadership 'for apologists for Putin'
Washington Examiner ^ | February 24, 2023 05:18 PM | Naomi Lim, White House Reporter |

Posted on 02/24/2023 2:36:44 PM PST by conservative98

Former Vice President Mike Pence condemned "apologists" for Russian President Vladimir Putin within the Republican Party, an indirect dig at former President Donald Trump, during a foreign policy address delivered on the first anniversary of Russia invading Ukraine.

"While some in my party have taken a somewhat different view, let me be clear," he told the University of Texas at Austin's Clements Center for National Security Friday. "There can be no room in the leadership of the Republican Party for apologists for Putin. There can only be room for champions of freedom."

Pence described Russia's war in Ukraine as "unprovoked" and "unconscionable," noting more than 300,000 people have been killed and "millions more" have been forced to flee their homes during the conflict.

"Beyond the courage of the Ukrainian people, we've also seen free nations of the world unite to stand with the Ukrainian people and stand up the Russian aggression," he said. "We will not stop providing [vital military aid] until victory is achieved."

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To: conservative98

This is weird and arrogant, everybody having to think like he does! It’s sounds like the Dems where one had to be in lockstep.


61 posted on 02/24/2023 4:21:54 PM PST by Jane Austen (Neo-cons are liberal Democrats who love illegal aliens and war.)
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To: conservative98

He wants to send money to Ukraine while he cuts Social Security.

F*ck him!


62 posted on 02/24/2023 4:29:14 PM PST by DMD13
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To: conservative98

Buzz off you neocon!


63 posted on 02/24/2023 4:30:42 PM PST by DMD13
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To: conservative98

Has anyone in this country apologized for Putin? By that word, I assume he means makes excuses for.

Putin claimed he wanted to free the two eastern provinces. Biden basically gave him permission to go in. Zelensky had troops on their border shelling the two provinces before the invasion.

Peace negotiators early on could have used those two provinces as leverage to call a cease fire. Zelensky could have been bought off to allow a plebiscite — the provinces would have gone with Russia — coupled with face saving offers for both sides and the cost would have been less than we have already spent and Ukraine would have been spared death and destruction.


64 posted on 02/24/2023 4:42:06 PM PST by odawg
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To: conservative98

DEAD EYES WAR MONGER!


65 posted on 02/24/2023 4:45:10 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: steel_resolve

It appears Mike Pence thinks disagreeing with his positive view of V. Zelenskyy and the proxy war against the Russian people Is forbidden. To Pence, Our proxy war against Russia is a fabulous adventure even though Zelenskyy, has banned the Speaking of the Russian Language, banned the Russian Orthodox Church, persecuted Russian Ukrainians, banned political parties other than his own, shut down all press, only his press is allowed, and also demands the United States send him billions of dollars.
I think Mike Pence, and other warmongering politicians are misguided at best, or corrupt autocrats desiring WW 3.


66 posted on 02/24/2023 4:45:39 PM PST by Yolanda (Jussie Smollett hoa)
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To: AndyJackson; conservative98
"...what’s our next global ever war expansionist move?
We certainly can’t just stop there."

Taiwan, after Xi-snakes' Chi-Coms invade.

67 posted on 02/24/2023 4:48:03 PM PST by BroJoeK (future DDG 134 -- we remember)
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To: steel_resolve
"What Pence is really claiming is that he wants no room made for a realist’s view of the Ukraine war..."

The "realists'" view was that Vlad the Invader could overrun Ukraine in a few weeks, if not days.
The "realists" thought Ukraine would be another Afghanistan, where an aggressor only had to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure would come crashing down, right? Just like in 1941.

Well, as it happened the "realists" were wrong then but now they say: "this time Vlad the Invader really means it, really, really he's going to do it this time, and Ukraine is finished."

I think, maybe, the "realists" are not as realistic as they've pretended.

68 posted on 02/24/2023 4:56:28 PM PST by BroJoeK (future DDG 134 -- we remember)
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To: Rurudyne
"Is saying none of it is our concern that we should be sending our wealth overseas being a Putin apologist?"

Your basic problem is that the cost of helping Ukraine is orders of magnitude less than will be the cost of Vlad the Invader's next invasion, should Ukraine be defeated.

So, for you to advocate against Ukraine is for you to advocate for a many times more expensive next war.

That makes you not so much pro-Putin as anti-American, FRiend.

69 posted on 02/24/2023 5:01:17 PM PST by BroJoeK (future DDG 134 -- we remember)
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To: Skywise
"We only demand to know why we’re spending more than the entire Iraq war in one year..."

Seriously? The Iraq war lasted eight years, from 2003 to 2011 and cost around $2 trillion, or about $250 billion per year, on average.

The US has sent, so far, around $54 billion in aid to Ukraine.
Do you see the difference between $250 billion per year for Iraq and $54 billion in one year for Ukraine?

70 posted on 02/24/2023 5:08:23 PM PST by BroJoeK (future DDG 134 -- we remember)
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To: All

He is so obnoxious.

The sad part is all the neo-cons, never trumpets and snowflakes will vote for him.

Things we be so different if MP would have had some b**ls.


71 posted on 02/24/2023 5:14:15 PM PST by xyz2
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To: BroJoeK

Sorry - war in Afghanistan

https://patriots.win/p/16aT7o6msD/-us-financial-support-for-ukrain/c/


72 posted on 02/24/2023 5:21:05 PM PST by Skywise
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To: BroJoeK

Well yeah - that’s Biden’s Propaganda.

It’d have been far cheaper if Obama hadn’t orchestrated a coup in Ukraine to expand NATO which we promised we wouldn’t do to the USSR.


73 posted on 02/24/2023 5:22:23 PM PST by Skywise
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To: AndyJackson
"Are you reaching that point when the other two great nuclear powers point out that you are the threat to world peace directly participating in endless war for well over a century?
Are you straining the world's patience when asking "give peace a chance" you have engaged in endless war, with barely a pause?"

Andy, boy, I see that you have been drinking a lot of anti-American Kool-Aid and it's already begun to rot your brain.
If you don't stop drinking that poison, you'll be turned into a babbling idiot and rendered useless for any worthwhile purpose.
Indeed, Andy, you're already half-way there, and I'm not at all certain if you haven't hidden your real anti-American feelings from us.

The truth is that nuclear war would be vastly worse than any fantasies you or Vlad the Invader have about some alleged "a great global imperial evil", meaning America as ruled by your favorite bogeymen.

If Vlad the Invader is so insane as to begin nuking Ukraine, or anybody else, the end result will be the destruction of the Russian Empire, and for what? Some bogeyman phantasms as imagined by Freeper AndyJackson?

I think Russians have always been bullies towards their neighbors, but they were never, so far as I know, suicidal.

74 posted on 02/24/2023 5:29:25 PM PST by BroJoeK (future DDG 134 -- we remember)
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To: BroJoeK

And why would that be our concern?

Being the world cop is not a good idea.

But an even worse idea is letting people who do not deserve our trust rope us into being that so they can defraud us of untold billions and then mash us into the form of an bureaucratic elites wet dream of their perfect world.

I’m as utterly unconcerned with the Ukraine as the globalists are with American sovereignty and enforcement of our borders.


75 posted on 02/24/2023 5:30:34 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: FranklinsTower
"So he is basically saying that because one doesn’t want to send billions to Ukraine to support what must be the world’s most dangerous blackmail database, one is a Putin apologist?"

Naw, the argument for aiding Ukraine is basically, if we don't stop Vlad the Invader in Ukraine, then his next invasion will cost us vastly more in our own blood and treasure.

So, you are not so much pro-Putin as you are anti-American.

76 posted on 02/24/2023 5:32:32 PM PST by BroJoeK (future DDG 134 -- we remember)
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To: Skywise

People have a long history of causing the next war while trying to prevent the last war.


77 posted on 02/24/2023 5:33:28 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Kazan
"There is no room for neocons in the Republican, let alone in leadership.
They must be expelled or the Republican party must die."

Oh, there's the most brilliant thought of the day!
Let's destroy the Republican party and turn the US over to perpetual single party woke-Democrat control.

Yes, by golly, that's fix things for sure!

</sarcasm>

78 posted on 02/24/2023 5:38:14 PM PST by BroJoeK (future DDG 134 -- we remember)
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To: enumerated
"Opposing US involvement in Ukraine is NOT an endorsement of Putin or Russia."

Right, opposing US aid to Ukraine is not so much pro-Putin as it is anti-American, since it guarantees that Putin's next war will cost Americans orders of magnitude more in our own blood and treasure than Ukraine ever imagined.

79 posted on 02/24/2023 5:41:38 PM PST by BroJoeK (future DDG 134 -- we remember)
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To: imabadboy99
"Now that I think about it, the demonic illegal usurper Obama aka Soerto also used to say “Let me be clear!” all the time."

In my memory, the first person notorious for saying "Let me be clear about..." was Tricky Dick Nixon.

I always hated that expression, for the same reason I hate hearing, "I'll be honest with you about..." because it implies that everything else that person said was dishonest.

80 posted on 02/24/2023 5:45:07 PM PST by BroJoeK (future DDG 134 -- we remember)
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