Posted on 03/20/2023 9:45:11 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
A group funded by Ben & Jerry’s founder Ben Cohen is running a media campaign against U.S. military support for Ukraine.
The organization—Eisenhower Media Network (EMN)—has been reaching out to reporters to push claims that the U.S. is spending too much money trying to help Ukraine fight off Vladimir Putin’s invasion.
EMN is a project run by the People’s Power Initiative, a group that counts Cohen as its president and a major backer. The ice-cream mogul and long-time Bernie Sanders campaigner has given more than $1 million to the People’s Power Initiative via the Ben Cohen Charitable Trust, according to public records.
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In an interview with The Daily Beast, Fritz lifted the lid on the ongoing campaign to turn Americans against President Joe Biden’s military support for Ukraine—and the man behind his organization.
“I have never talked about that before but it is Ben Cohen, remember him—Ben & Jerry’s—he is our biggest funder. He is the reason we came about. We do feel that our military budget is too large in some ways, and he believes that if we just target our budget on what we actually need, then we buy more social programs for the United States of America, more social programs that people might also need in Ukraine.”
“Ukraine cannot win this war,” Fritz continued. “The bottom line is: It’s done. They are against a mad man and his ego—he will not lose. Whether we like it or not, we have to give Putin something.”
Fritz said he preferred China’s non-interventionist approach to foreign policy. “I say we Americans have to stop being arrogant,” he said.
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I can agree with half of what he is doing.
Who woulda’ thought b&j would be puttinites? 😂
I guess you’re not counting the Marxist/Socialists on your side. (Pssssst.....there’s a lot more)
Good. Left wingers with principles.
I put this in the “even a broken clock gets the time right twice a day” file...
Well said.
Well, looky. B&J got one thing right.
Biden and his supporters are wrong all the time.
And yet Bernie Sanders has voted for every Ukraine-funding bill
Hell has frozen over - I actually agree with Ben & Jerry’s on one thing
Never thought I’d be on his side for anything in politics...
Wow liberals who actually stand by their beliefs. Shocking
It sounds like somebody has done the math and figured out a war now and they would lose a lot more left wingers than right wingers. Their illegal alien voter base would also take a huge hit.
This is why Ukraine and Biden started attacking those against the war.
Biden is loosing his base support on it.
Interesting!
Beat me to it.
China’s going to intervene in negotiations just like Slow-Joe expected them to, or was paid to allow, or paid not to interfere with.
Thus spake the Xi
“Nothing happens in politics without a reason” - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
HUH.
this is NOT an enemy of my enemy is my friend scenario. Not now, and never in this reality
News flash: The enemy of my enemy is an asset, not my friend. Use him up, but for God’s sake don’t be suckered into supporting him.
God forgive me for agreeing with those two sideshow freaks...but we should never have given cent one to Ukraine. Zelensky is a comedian of questionable background, and Putin is a simply evil man. I can already hear the military industrial complex gearing up to “save them both from China”.
So much money wasted and lives lost for nothing. Not our monkeys, not our football.
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