Monday, January 10, 2022

Russia is not our adversary

Yet Republicans have seized on the atmosphere of the meetings to attack Biden as weak on the world stage, a key theme in their 2022 midterm election strategy.


“President Biden’s consistent weakness towards our adversaries around the world has encouraged Putin’s latest military aggression and has endangered the territory of Ukraine,” Rep. Elise Stefanik (N.Y.), the third-ranking Republican in the House, said in a statement Monday.

Stefanik, along with nine other House Republicans, introduced legislation Monday aimed at increasing U.S. support for Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression, though it also served as an attack on the Biden administration’s strategy.

One provision of the draft legislation, called the Guaranteeing Ukrainian Autonomy by Reinforcing its Defense Act, aims to override Biden’s sanctions waiver related to the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline that runs from Russia to Germany, a key area of conflict between Republicans and the administration that has tacit backing from congressional Democrats, who also opposed waiving sanctions on the pipeline.

Russia has not directly threatened America's interests. They are basically allies in the middle east, and there was no American consensus for regime change in Syria,  Ruskie competes with us on oil and gas exports. They are media influencers and hackers, but so are we. Who said that a bunch of badly educated repub senators select our adversaries.


  
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Posted by Matt Young at 9:00 PM

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