Republicans Cheer Putin, Blame Biden as Russia Attacks Ukraine

Last evening (morning in Ukraine), Russia launched a full invasion of the former Soviet territory. While some Republicans said the right things about supporting Ukraine and pushing back against aggression from Russian President Vladimir Putin, most had…different ideas.

First, here’s former President Donald Trump saying that Russia invaded Ukraine because of the 2020 Presidential election in the United States:

This is the same Trump who earlier this week called Putin a “genius” for preparing to invade Ukraine with a “peacekeeping force.”

As MSNBC explains:

“As an American, I am angry and saddened,” the former president said of the conflict. “It happened because of a rigged election.”

Yes, as a deadly international crisis unfolds, what really matters to the head of the Republican Party is his pitiful Big Lie.

In the same on-air appearance, he admonished his own country’s leaders — Trump condemned what he saw as the Biden administration’s “weakness and stupidity” — before suggesting that he believed U.S. troops were part of last night’s military offensive. It fell to Laura Ingraham to explain that it was Russians, not Americans, that had launched an amphibious attack.

That’s right: Trump thinks the United States is sending troops into Ukraine (it is not).

Via Business Insider (2/24/22)

 

Meanwhile, as Chase Woodruff of Colorado Newsline reports, right-wing pundits in Colorado are using the Russian invasion as an opportunity to PRAISE VLADIMIR PUTIN:

Similarly, the Colorado Republican Party thinks this is a fine time to blame President Biden for Putin’s decisions. Congressman Doug Lamborn (R-Colorado Springs) is echoing Trump’s rhetoric:

 

Congressperson Lauren “Q*Bert” Boebert (R-ifle) agrees with Lamborn, issuing a full statement to talk about how everything is Biden’s fault (Boebert also seems to think that approving the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada would have stopped Putin from invading Ukraine, or something).

And then there’s Rep. Ken Buck (R-Greeley), who may not even be paying attention to what’s happening in Eastern Europe:

 

Republicans are all over the place on Russia/Ukraine in part because there is no consensus among Congressional leaders about how they should respond.

Finally, here’s an interesting reminder from Kyle Clark of 9News:

6 Community Comments, Facebook Comments

  1. NOV GOP meltdown says:

    If you ever wondered what was more important to them…their nonsensical kook causes and ideas or the United States of America. Damn.

  2. Gilpin Guy says:

    This follows a standard pattern of not having any ideas or solutions other than blaming Dems for everything that goes wrong in the world.

  3. Diogenesdemar says:

    "It is no longer possible for a Republican politician to say anything that could be considered too ignorant, or too detached from reality."

  4. jimmay says:

    Look it’s all of Pitiful Pear’s heroes, where he goes to get the moronic garbage he mindlessly repeats like a brain damaged parrot. 

  5. JohnNorthofDenver says:

    I would say start the clock on how long before Murdoch tells the employees to back the western alliance or be rescheduled 

  6. JohnInDenver says:

    Lamborn thinks that Biden failed to "sanction" the Nord Stream II Pipeline?  I'm not certain whether he means Biden ought to have approved it or taken action against it.  that "sanction" word is uncommonly ambiguous.

    To the extent that Biden was doing ANYTHING on the pipeline, he was avoiding economic constraints on its operation.  ABC News pointed out: "The pipeline, which went forward under Merkel, has been an irritant in U.S.-German relations. Biden waived sanctions against the pipeline's operator when it was almost complete in return for an agreement from Germany to take action against Russia if it used gas as a weapon or attacks Ukraine."

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