See below for video of Rep. Eugene Vindman (D-VA07) on the third anniversary of Russia’s brutal, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, and the three years of war crimes and destruction that’s followed. Now, the Trump administration appears to be moving towards a betrayal of our ally and a massive gift to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, while House and Senate Republicans overwhelmingly stand by and do nothing. WTF is going on here? Did the American people really vote for this? If so, why would they do that??? Crazy, crazy sh**.
As for Rep. Vindman, he says he’s “not particularly confident right now” in the chances for a lasting peace, as:
“…all of the pressure seems to be on the Ukrainian leadership, the Ukrainian government – this administration has pretty much given away the farm, granting it seems like at the outset, territorial concessions, stating that Ukraine will not be a member of NATO, putting all the pressure on Ukraine and taking all the pressure off of Russia…a hard pivot towards autocracy and away from our own values after years of weakness from the Biden administration…it’s shameful…I approach this issue as deep concern for US national security…It’s squarely in the US national security interest to support Ukraine, to have a strong trans-Atlantic alliance and to stand up against autocrats…President Zelenskyy is exactly right, he’s willing to sacrifice his leadership in exchange for peace, and I have no doubt that he will do that if there is a path to it.”
On Trump’s firing of top U.S. military leaders, Rep. Vindman said:
“It is certainly unprecedented and unexpected…we had an expression in the JAG corps, ‘lawful but awful’…Is it because he wants to install yes-men, folks that won’t challenge his unlawful potentially actions? We need answers, the American people deserve answers, and we in Congress are going to demand that we should receive those answers.”
So yeah, Vindman’s absolutely right on both topics, is speaking very bluntly and truthfully (also note that he’s rising to the occasion, unlike many Democratic “leaders”), and is rapidly proving that VA07 voters made the right choice in electing him to Congress.
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