Some Republicans Sharply Criticize Trump’s Embrace of Russia at the U.N.

The New York Times ^ | Feb. 25, 2025 Updated 2:13 p.m. ET | Karoun Demirjian

[E. Pluribus Unum]

A band of moderate Republicans in Congress sharply criticized the Trump administration this week for siding with Russia at the United Nations on resolutions regarding the war in Ukraine, even as the majority of the G.O.P. turned a blind eye to the United States’ sudden embrace of a longtime adversary.

“The Trump Administration royally screwed up today on Ukraine,” Representative Don Bacon, Republican of Nebraska, wrote on social media on Monday night. “The vast majority of Americans stand up for independence, freedom and free markets, and against the bully and invader.”

The reproach from Mr. Bacon and others came after the United States on Monday voted against a U.N. General Assembly resolution, introduced by Ukraine, that condemned Russia for invading Ukrainian territory and demanded that it withdraw and face repercussions for war crimes. Shortly afterward, the United States succeeded in passing a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for peace in Ukraine that did not chastise Russia. Key U.S. allies, including Britain and France, abstained.

“This posture is a dramatic shift from American ideals of freedom and democracy,” Senator John Curtis, Republican of Utah, wrote on social media on Monday night, saying he was “deeply troubled by the vote,” which had “put us on the same side as Russia and North Korea.”

The Russian representative to the United Nations welcomed the move by the United States and said the new stance gave Moscow “a certain optimism” about the future of European security.

The position adopted by the Trump administration would have been anathema in recent years, during which the United States shipped arms to help Ukraine’s fighters beat back Russia’s invasion and sent funds to prop up the war-torn country’s civilian infrastructure. Even many Republicans who bristled at the tens of billions of...

[dfwgator]

Blah Blah Blah

[Sarah Barracuda]

Yet in the meantime the deal is going to be done and there will be PEACE in both Russia and Ukraine so STFU

[Sacajaweau]

Trump is aware...

Russia may be a bad apple....but he is also President of a World Power.

[LegendHasIt]

Some Republicans are Warmongers.

[odawg]

Trump is trying to get Russia out of China’s orbit.

[PGR88]

Biden and his woke/neocon masters were total fools to push Russia and China together.

US and Russia will not become allies or friends, but reorienting to a long-held and common -sense strategic policy was unavoidable

[cgbg]

The adults are busy negotiating a peace treaty.

The children need to take a time out in the corner of the room.

[OldHarbor]

Trump would rather do business with Russia rather than go to war with them.

Warpigs outraged !!! They’ll keep trying though. They’ll need a new project now that project Ukraine is careening into a ditch and exploding.

[CFW]

Trump is not “embracing” Russia. He is trying to stop a war that has killed thousands and will continue to do so if it is not ended by diplomacy. Or, do the war-mongers need another never-ending conflict to line their coffers? Or maybe their goal is nuclear war? I don’t understand their end-game or goals.

Ukraine and Russia need to come to an agreement that will semi-please both sides and stop the killing. No one gets everything they want in such a situation but it has to stop somewhere.

I’m beginning to believe this is not a Russian instigated war, but a war started at the behest of American deep-state war-mongers and politicians on both sides of the aisle that have financial interests in the industrial military complex..

[Responsibility2nd]

“The Trump Administration royally screwed up today on Ukraine,” Representative Don Bacon, Republican of Nebraska, wrote on social media on Monday night. “The vast majority of Americans stand up for independence, freedom and free markets, and against the bully and invader.”

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Funny. We hear the same level of BS from the neocon Zeepers who pollute this place.

[tumblindice]

2 RINOs wrap themselves in the flag, while Trump ends the war, makes money for America and allies us with Eurasia against Eastasia.
More empty rhetoric vs. results.

[OldHarbor]

Yeah, will he wave a Ukrainian flag on the floor of the house like his DemonCrap cousins do ?

America first ahole, learn it, live it, love it or stfu and gtfo.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

“The Trump Administration royally screwed up today on Ukraine,” Representative Don Bacon, Republican of Nebraska, wrote on social media on Monday night. “The vast majority of Americans stand up for independence, freedom and free markets, and against the bully and invader.”

I'm doing something I've never done before - taking down the names of Republican weasels in the House so I can donate to any primary opponents they get in two years. This guy goes on the list.

[gibsonguy]

“Trump’s Embrace of Russia at the U.N.”

BS.

[Lake Living]

Here’s an interesting take on not just this issue with Russia but also the Middle East situation by George Friedman.

https://youtu.be/s-okIcAADYE

[9YearLurker]

That’d be Don “’s Been Bringing Home The” Bacon.

[Bob Wills is still the king]

“Trump is aware...

Russia may be a bad apple....but he is also President of a World Power.”
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Russia is just a third-world country with some nukes, like Pakistan.

[packagingguy]

“against the bully and invader”

Uh, invader?

Ask Bush II about that.

(Or Obama)

[Robert DeLong]

RINO Don Bacon