WASHINGTON ― Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made his third visit to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to appeal for U.S. aid as his country continues to suffer from deadly Russian bombings ― but he was met with a frosty reception from some members of the Republican Party.
“The idea of flying this guy in last-minute, effectively to badger and guilt-trip us, I just find grotesque,” Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) told reporters on Monday.
“This is purely designed to apply pressure on Republicans to give up their fight on the border and write another blank check to Ukraine,” Vance later said on Fox News. “I’m not doing it. I don’t think Republicans should go for it at all.”
“He’s been invited here by Joe Biden to come do the president’s bidding,” Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) claimed in an interview with the Family Research Council. “We don’t need another preaching message. Everything that can be said about Ukraine has been said. Not everybody’s said it, but everything has been said.”
Zelenskyy appealed to members of the Senate behind closed doors to continue to supply military aid to Ukraine. He reiterated that the U.S.’s financial obligations would be even higher in the future if Russian President Vladimir Putin is allowed to redraw the map of Europe.
“His message was simple: We’ve held our own,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said after the meeting. “We can win. We’re going to keep fighting no matter what the United States does, but we need your help to win this thing. And Europe is watching. And the whole world is watching.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ukraine-zelenskyy-congress_n_65788287e4b0db9d2ab71782
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President Joe Biden’s administration has requested $61 billion in new aid to Ukraine, but Republicans have made the aid package contingent on his agreeing to major changes to the nation’s immigration laws and border policies ― changes that Democrats in many cases don’t support. Progressives, in particular, are concerned that the GOP’s demands would effectively ban asylum and punish people legally seeking refuge in the U.S.
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>“Putin is delighted Trump’s border policies are sabotaging aid to Ukraine"
Anonymous
>>1245120 When did republicans suddenly turn pro communist?
sage
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>>1245141 it's the way it's always been, american big business helped prop up communist china, and they established a codependent investment policy after the ussr collapsed
Anonymous
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>>1245141 it's the way it's always been, american big business helped prop up a fledgling communist russia, and they established a codependent investment policy after the ussr collapsed
Anonymous
you can flip this narrative around and ask why Democrats would be willing to give up on aid to Ukraine in order to continue letting in massive numbers of immigrants.
Anonymous
>>1245146 except republican quotes show that the flipped narrative is "fuck everyone but me, even if you're being invaded by people i used to hate"
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>>1245148 except most Republican senators support aid for Ukraine, but they aren't going to give up on their other domestic agenda items just because "muh foreign policy".
think about it, if Ukraine is so important wouldn't Democrats WANT to compromise and reach a deal?
that's democracy. that's how it works.
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>>1245153 destabilizing the world for your shortsighted goals isn't a good look though
Anonymous
>>1245155 Then why did Biden do it?
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>>1245163 you're earnestly telling us biden destabilized the world? how so
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>>1245155 Why are Democrats *so* against having a border that isn't fucked up?
Think about it. Nobody is against securing the border except for the Democrats in legislature.
Why is it really so important to democrats that they aren't willing to secure the border to help get Ukraine aid?
For anyone with a brain, securing the border and giving Ukraine aid seems like a win, democrats are literally the only group against doing both of these things.
Hell, even most democrat voters want a secure voter, it's the Democrats in Congress that don't
theoneboomer dontchangeitsself
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>>1245146 >continue letting in massive numbers of immigrants. Too bad Republicans wont give incentives to allow US residents to have more than 1 child.
Until Robby the Robot is perfected, I need someone to change my diaper
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>>1245166 >Think about it. Nobody is against securing the border except for the Democrats in legislature. you say that, and then you bus migrants further into the country on false premises of goodwill toward them. we've all seen the psychotic nihilistic lengths you'll go to, so don't act reasonable now
Anonymous
>>1245155 sorry but until not 1 single immigrant enters america, noone should pay for literally anything related to foreign aid or domestic aid because its all goign to go to coloreds so whats the point
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>>1245171 You want to literally close the borders to all visitors or anyone who might enter? That is just not reality my dude. You are so caught up in your bigoted bias that you can’t even see the real world.
Anonymous
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>>1245171 Then why are you insisting on nice roads to be built for immigrants to follow into America?
Stop being a dumbass and support actual policy instead of retarded shit like 'build da wallllll'
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>>1245171 do you have a time machine, let's go back to 1606, or wait, when did leif erikson get here
Anonymous
>>1245168 >Texas needs to deal with the Democrats refusal to protect the border Fuck off it's everyone's problem and it's sad it takes theatrics like bussing illegal immigrants to a rich Democrat island like Martha's vineyard for them to realize that.
Anonymous
>>1245176 to realize you're hypocritical assholes? it didn't take that
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>>1245177 Why do you people support illegal immigration over the interests of the country as a whole?
Why?
Does your npc programming kick in and tell you that illegal immigrants are more important than the national interest?
What is it that drives you to be this way?
Anonymous
>>1245166 >>Why are Democrats *so* against having a border that isn't fucked up? because an unsecured border allows an unlimited supply of fentanyl from china to
continue streaming in.
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>>1245177 >hypocritical ngl, the only hypocrisy in this thing is democrats claiming they love illegal immigrants and then freaking out when they have to deal with them
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>>1245179 Good point. Democrats love their fentanyl
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>>1245180 Maybe if you weren't such a retarded faggot you wouldn't incorrectly attribute things to democrats and then get angry at the things you imagine they do.
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>>1245180 >we spent millions of tax dollars fucking your system up and it's your fault republicans love to do this with schools and other institutions, but plane rides to the east coast to own the libs is a new level
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look, we're not "against brown people". hell, most of them are Catholics and end up voting for Republicans eventually. we're for a secured border so terrorists and drugs can't stream into the country unchecked, and we're against giving free healthcare and education to non US citizens when actual US citizens are getting fucked over. it isn't complicated, so stop making it complicated.
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>>1245195 Good post, but your casting pearls before swine
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>>1245141 Russia is a fascist state now, they're natural allies to the Republicans
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>>1245198 american christians are heretics
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>>1245208 Cry more /pol/ppet
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>>1245216 >>1245211 >Assblasted retards trying to act like normal folk Anonymous
>>1245217 Stop trying to groom people here, pedo.
theonelonghair cantgroomitsself
>>1245218 >Stop trying to groom people here, pedo. You can comb my hair anytime, big boy.
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>>1245208 >triggered by the truth Anonymous
>>1245121 >$61 billion How will this investment return? How will you avoid war profiteering and becoming another mil-industrial cash farming vortex of evil? Already so much money has been spent, I am sure there are many genius military strategists that could have easily won this conflict by now.
>>1245121 >immigration Form an immigrant army and send them to Ukraine, give them a chance to prove their worthiness. Not that most of you civilians are worthy of existing in the 1st World anymore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_grant Anonymous
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>>1245261 Quit acting retarded
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>>1245244 But enough about Trump's pedo palace in Florida.
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>>1245146 >immigrants. border jumpers are criminals not 'immigrants'
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>>1245261 I know you're a vatnik shill.
But to everyone else. The weapons being sold are 30 years old and have been rotting in storage units, it was unironically cheaper to give them to the Ukrainians then have to continue to pay storage fees or the cost of disposing them.
Ukraine will still have to pay back everything they get and the US was get at least 100 year lease for a naval base on the black seat.
It's a very good bargain, but given Republicans have sided with Putin, it's expected they want to ratfuck it to help Russia anyway they can.
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>>1245273 They're not criminals or immigrants, they're refugees.
Anonymous
>>1245296 From liberalism that infects South America.
They need to stay and deal with what they voted for.
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>>1245146 Republicans are not serious about border security. Republicans would happily torpedo anything Biden proposes just to spite him. That's why they haven't actually proposed anything, they just bitch and cry about Biden all the time.
The GOP modus operandi is to sabotage the border so that they can blame Biden for failing to solve the border "crisis," which is an entirely GOP-manufactured problem.
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I do not give a shit about the Slavs
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>>1245472 >Why are we spending BILLIONS on these foreigners’ squabbles when we should be fixing our fucking infrastructure, education and housing systems The fate of the tiny hate tribe is more important than that of Americans.
Hence, the cries of Israel and the Jewish leader of Ukraine will be answered before that of the american
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>>1245334 No they don't.
>>1245422 Obviously not wrong.
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>>1245472 Yeah, let's just ignore America's main geopolitical enemy, one that was America's rival for over half a century.
Great idea, retard.
Anonymous
>>1245512 We could just nationalize the systems instead of wasting them on corporations like Republicans do.
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>>1245120 Well, when you're a Jew like Zelensky is, you have your hand out for free stuff, don't you?
However, the Gaza war is more important to Joe Juden at the moment and the well seems to have run dry for Zelensky, no media coverage, his face isn't on the US TV as much as he would like.
Sad times......
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>>1245608 Republicans are never for anything, only against because it's an easy position that requires no thinking. They want to tear down government systems which then in turn transfers those systems over to private, unaccountable corporations. Did you know you used to be able to open a bank account with USPS? But then bankers lobbied the government to shut it down.
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>>1245672 Umm… it is republicans blocking aid to Ukraine while Biden and the democrats fight for sending more aid to Ukraine.
But keep saying stupid shit that is not true. Let’s see how that works out for you.
