Vance Wants To Appease Putin With Ukrainian Territory
When he was running for the Senate last year, MAGA candidate JD Vance said “I gotta be honest with you. I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another.” Ohio has a large Ukrainian-American community and he offended Republican voters in Parma, Cleveland and Toledo. Today, one of the most pro-Putin members of the Senate, Vance is working to cut off funds to Ukraine’s efforts to defend itself from Russian aggression. Yesterday, Vance went on Steve Bannon’s show— basically a Putin propaganda outlet— and claimed, dishonestly— that some lawmakers are looking to cut Social Security benefits for more aid to Ukraine so that Ukrainian ministers can buy bigger yachts. One of his colleagues, Thom Tillis (R-NC), called Vance’s assertions “total and unmitigated bullshit.”
With Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in DC today to brief congressional leaders about his country’s efforts, Trump allies like MAGA Mike, Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Traitor Greene— largely uneducated yahoos who never heard of George Santayana or his most famous warning in his book, The Life of Reason (1905): “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”— are running around with their hair on fire demanding the U.S. abandon Ukraine to Russia. MAGA Mike, Gaetz and Traitor Greene are unaware of how appeasement has always been a failed policy and that ignoring history’s lessons and repeating past mistakes leads to catastrophe. The French allowing Hitler to reoccupy the Ruhr (1923) led to Germany militarization; the 1938 Munich Agreement that allowed Hitler to take the Sudetenland from the Czechs led first to Germany swallowing up all of Czechoslovakia and then to a European conflagration. Similarly, appeasement in 1931 when the Japanese invaded Manchuria and in 1935 when Mussolini invaded Ethiopia just encouraged more aggression, not less.
Morons like Gaetz, Traitor Greene and MAGA Mike have no clue. JD Vance, on the other hand, can’t make that excuse. He’s an educated person and very aware of just what appeasement means. And yet… he’s the foremost of the Senate Trumpists calling for Ukraine to cede territory to Russia. On State of the Union Sunday. Vance told Jake Tapper that “What’s in America’s best interest is to accept Ukraine is going to have to cede some territory to the Russians and we need to bring this war to a close. The idea that Ukraine was going to throw Russia back to the 1991 border was preposterous— nobody actually believed it.”
Vance voted to block the Ukrainian aid package and he will continue to serve Russia’s national interests instead of America’s. It’s who he is and what he does. Right now the only interest he— and the other congressional MAGAts— are serving is that of the Trump campaign: chaos, dysfunction, American failure. Aside from a collapse in Ukraine and a Biden impeachment, first and foremost for congressional Republicans is a government shutdown and harsh cuts to the budget that would be devastating to working class families.
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