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.
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.
JD Vance hates humanity.