Zelenskyy’s visit to Pennsylvania weapons factory upsets speaker as Trump continues attacks on Ukrainian president
The US House speaker, Mike Johnson, has demanded that Ukraine fire its ambassador to Washington as the feud between Donald Trump and Volodymr Zelenskyy escalated and Republicans accused the Ukrainian leader of election interference.
In a public letter, Johnson demanded that Zelenskyy fire the Ukrainian ambassador, Oksana Markarova, over a visit to a munitions factory in Scranton, Pennsylvania, last week where the Ukrainian president thanked workers for providing desperately needed shells to his outgunned forces.
Johnson complained that Markarova had organised the visit to the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant as a “partisan campaign event designed to help Democrats”. The event was attended by the Pennsylvania governor, Josh Shapiro, a Democrat who has campaigned in support of Kamala Harris.
Being a kid of the 80s and living on the tail end of the Cold War this is just so weird.
The Republicans then, under Reagan, really viewed the Russians with disdain. We were constantly told - both by them, school, and the media, how Russia and Communism was the greatest evil on this planet.
Now all I see every time I turn on the news is some shadow of a Republican, gargling the balls of a Russian leader or representative.
It’s WEIRD I tell you, it’s like that movie The Manchurian Candidate is playing out only they’ve replaced the whole party.
The documentary “The Family” offers the explanation that Russia has a strong traditional family values contingent that appeals to the right-wing idealogy.
this guy and family values???
In 20s we had Jews, now this position was taken by gays and trans. Fascists always need an enemy to rile up others.
no Republicans were invited
So? Why would they invite the assholes trying to sabotage everything? Putin wasn’t invited either.
They act like babies and then clutch their pearls when not allowed at the adukt table. Same people who rail against benefits but go back to their states and take credit for any improvements. Gross people all around.
I first didn’t think much of it, but now I am realizing that this visit shows how Republicans lie that Biden is just dropping pallets off dollar bills into Ukraine, when in reality majority of it actually stays within US, creating jobs, and apart from artillery shells majority of production is to replenish US stocks, because we are giving Ukraine equipment that was close to expire.
This lie being exposed is the real reason why Mike is upset.
He’s still upset Zelenskyy didn’t falsify evidence about Hunter Biden for him.
And then told congress about the attempted extortion, which got Trump impeached for election interference
Trump-Zelenskyy feud
Which is synonymous with Putin-Zelenskyy feud. I don’t think anyone is surprised that Putin’s bitch is doing Putin’s biding.
Okay, I might be oversimplifying a bit here, but is the speaker of the house escalating global tensions simply because he wasn’t invited to a party?