Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that “millions will be killed” in his country’s war with Russia without additional funding from the United States.
CNN’s Kaitlan Collins asked Zelensky in an interview to respond to comments made by Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), who claimed Ukraine’s outcome in its war will not be changed even if it receives the President Biden’s $60 billion aid request. Zelensky said he wasn’t sure if Vance “understands what is going on here.”
“To understand it is to come to the front line to see what’s going on, to speak with the people, then to go to civilians to understand … what will [happen to] them without this support. And he will understand that millions … will be killed. It’s a fact,” Zelensky said.
For 50 years its been Russia bad, Communists evil. And now the USA has a freed hand to fund a proxy war with Russia and they just cant agree on it? Smells like Kompromat
Trump and many of his psycho cronies are bought and paid for by Russia.
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I’m pretty sure he does understand. He just doesn’t care.
“I’m sorry, but I just don’t see how I can turn a profit on keeping you alive.” —JD Vance
I think the problem is that he found a way to turn a profit
That, or he cares, but in the wrong direction. Which is plausible, considering how much the GOP tends to align with shit Putin says these days.
I think part of what Europe a whole is missing is that the US as a general population is withdrawing, possibly even to pre-1940’s levels. If that happens, globalization as a whole is at risk.
Says who? What “general population”? If you’re referring to the roughly 1/3 of this country that are either openly fascist, or fascist adjacent then it is on the rest of us to deliver crushing blows to their ideology. Nobody is coming to save us, and we must be willing to muster the courage of our convictions to defeat them. I don’t think they represent anything approaching a majority, but they are still incredibly dangerous.
You see it on the left as anti-imperialism. Obviously not the same thing as the “America first” crowd, but the general sentiment that the US should not be as directly involved in the affairs of other countries has been on the rise for a long time and poll numbers bear that out
I see your point, but the sentiment is still strong that America should be involved as a global leader, even in the data you provided. While that number has gone down, it still shows that roughly two thirds of the electorate do not want to embrace isolationism. However, I do think it matters what that participation in the world looks like, and like anything else there is a lot of nuance to that.
It has to suck so bad for Zelensky to be looking over here at the US and seeing one of the two parties is Putin’s lapdog.
millions will be killed
Nothing excites a conservative more than the agony and death of millions of innocent people. Bloodlust of the vulnerable is a fundamental conservative trait.
Oh… he doesn’t care. Or maybe he does, but he likes the thought.
People like JD Vance get off on cruelty.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that “millions will be killed” in his country’s war with Russia without additional funding from the United States.
CNN’s Kaitlan Collins asked Zelensky in an interview to respond to comments made by Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), who claimed Ukraine’s outcome in its war will not be changed even if it receives the President Biden’s $60 billion aid request.
The latest U.S. estimate said Russia has had more than 300,000 casualties in the war since invading Ukraine, according to a senior U.S. defense official.
Additional aid to Ukraine has been held up in Congress as House Republicans have tied stricter border provisions to approving more funding for the country.
A bipartisan Senate deal on border security that included aid for Ukraine, Israel and Indo-Pacific allies was unveiled earlier this month, but the deal fell apart after House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.)
President Biden is scheduled to host the four congressional leaders at the White House on Tuesday to discuss funding for Ukraine and efforts to avert a potential government shutdown as Congress is facing a pair of looming spending deadlines in the coming weeks.
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Isn’t it amazing how what Russia is doing in Ukraine isn’t genocide simply because of how Biden handles it?
Who knew that the definition of “genocide” was entirely reliant on what one US president did.
Seems no rats’s asses are given about what’s going on over there, nor any props given that Biden is helping them to defend themselves-
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It’s his job to milk the rest of us for all he can get but I’m still sick of him coming round with his hand out.
Please shut up tankie
One coin, two sides. What agenda has you looking up and responding to my 2 month old comment? Makes me think all these cries of “Russian bot!” Are projection of some kind. But you know, I don’t think your shit resonates with any human.
Americans are choosing between food and housing. I’m choosing to pay to keep my house and I’m thankful I can hit up food pantries here and there. It’d be cool if billionaires paid for that shit but here we are.
Damn, that sucks. Not sure why it’s our problem though. Millions of Russians will be killed if we do give them aid. Ukraine should learn to solve their own problems.
Watch this clown decry genocide one comment prior. Spineless agitprop.
Genocide is awful. If Russia were doing that in Ukraine, I’d be all for a war over it. This is a war over a couple ports Russia wants. Completely irrelevant to america, and not our problem.
Putin loving dickhead! Go die in a corner by yourself.
LMAO, because I don’t want America to get in a war with Russia that is not remotely relevant to us? Y’all are brainwashed as fuck if you think Russia is the only evil country in the world.
Oh it is our problem, if Russia takes and keeps Ukrain that tells the whole world expansionism is back on the table. If you think war cant find its way to your doorstep, your wrong
Damn, good thing America has all 10 of the worlds largest militaries then. Very much not concerned with that.
War on your doorstep as an american doesnt look like enemy soldiers in the street. More like you wake up one day with no power, no tap water, no phone service, no internet, no way to get news or ask for help. Eventually a cop car rolls down the street loudspeaker blaring shelter in place orders, national guard will bring food and water later yadda yadda and all because we are extremely complacent towards security of utilities in the cyber space
Sounds fun right?
That just sounds like typical late stage capitalism, lol. But I have nothing against defense spending. America has very little defense spending though. The thing we call “defense” is very obviously 90% offense. America should spend our money helping our own people, not screwing around in wars half way around the world.
How did you come to the calculation of millions of Russians?
Why would it be millions of one side but not the other?
Why would millions of Russians be killed if Russia left Ukraine and went back home? Its Putin, not Ukraine. Slava Ukrainia!
The weapons we give Ukraine are going to be used to kill millions of Russians
Maybe Russia shouldn’t invade other countries if they don’t want their people to die
Ironically exactly the opposite was upvoted in regards to hamas. That just because a government did something bad, the people don’t need to be punished- which I agree with.
Still not seeing why America is supposed to give a crap about a war on the other side of the globe. We are still responsible for the deaths of millions if we give Ukraine all the weapons they desire.
Aid wouldn’t be needed if the ruzzians withdraw from Ukraine.
Why should I, an American, care that they need aid? Those $160 billion could have been spent on healthcare for our people. We have our own problems to deal with, wars in the eastern hemisphere are not our problem.
Lol, just be quiet troll. It’s easy looking at your post history that you have an agenda that is aligned with the opposition of America.
A degraded russian military is good for pretty much everyone.
And by the way you talk you probably don’t give a shit about socialised healthcare. It’s just a stick you can use to hit people with.
Yes, I too can tell by what I write that I disagree with America on a lot. Good observation.
Maybe since you don’t know anything about me you should just take me at my word that I hold the extremely common belief I am claiming to.
The fact you talk about fixing America’s problems as a stick to hit people with shows that you hate america. You want us to be in forever wars and keep getting drained by billionaires
Not an American.
You have some pretty dumb ideas about foreign policy.
The fact that you used healthcare as an example is a conservative dogwhistle, and a rather ineffective one at that.
Isolationism is something your country cannot go back to. That idea was rightly killed over a century ago, as if it was ever actually fully realised.
I thought your country at least paid lip service to freedom and democracy worldwide, how is letting Russia invade and annex another country good for you?
It’s not hard to tell that you aren’t someone who actually understands the topic, or is acting in good faith here.
Tell us you’re a bot please. IF you’re not, you are either a troll (I would hope) or you’re an uneducated sucker with two brain cells fighting for third place.
Don’t you know that everyone who disagrees with you is a bot? Most numbskull argument I’ve ever heard.
So a bot, thanks.
Okay but why should I care if Russia takes a small portion of Ukraine? Y’all got relatives in sevastopol or something? Let them take it, we need to fix our own problems, like healthcare that nobody can afford.
Ukraine is the world’s “bread basket” they produce a ton of the world supply of wheat and barley.
Okay? So we just trade with Russia instead if they lose. The wheat is t going anywhere, though I’m sure we’d do just fine without it.
Hey, I want your car. You should give me your car so I don’t have to forcefully take it from you. Ok? Great, let me know where to pick up it. Don’t like that idea? Why not?
Sure thing, just bring several million men to my house.
They are solving their own problems by fighting back. Unfortunately that requires missiles that fucking cost money.
So they aren’t solving them then? Why do we have to pay for their missiles? We can’t afford to fight their war for them.
