Speaker Mike Johnson’s sudden bid to deliver aid to Ukraine came days after fresh intelligence described the U.S. ally at a true make-or-break moment in its war with Russia.

It was exactly the kind of dire assessment that President Joe Biden and the White House had spent months privately warning Johnson was inevitable.

  • Dagwood222
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    26
    ·
    6 months ago

    It’s amazing to watch the same GOPs who cheered Reagan calling Russia ‘The Evil Empire’ fall all over themselves to protect a guy who was trained by the KGB.

    • theprogressivist @lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      12
      ·
      6 months ago

      They have no shame or self-awareness, and if they do, they just don’t care which circles back to having no shame. They love being under the boot of authoritarians.

    • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      6 months ago

      I’m Latin American, American conservatives used us as proxies, in civil wars where one side was funded by the CIA, the other by the KGB. American conservatives killed thousands of my people and used death squads on any communist sympathisers or even people suspected, and they did all this to keep Russia out of this hemisphere.

      Now those same conservatives who used as like fodder, are sucking Russian dick and bowing to Putin