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on why the U.S should be supporting the Ukraine instead of siding with russia
https://www.alternet.org/2021/11/tucker-carlson/?
totally cringeworthy education of carlson by trumper mike turner (ohio)
read right through, it's something else
https://www.alternet.org/2021/11/tucker-carlson/?
totally cringeworthy education of carlson by trumper mike turner (ohio)
read right through, it's something else
The Ohio lawmaker explained how Ukraine serves as one of the United States' allies. Mediaite also notes Turner "alluded to the Budapest Memorandum signed by the U.S., Russia, and Ukraine (among other states) in 1994. Russia violated that agreement when it annexed Crimea in 2014."
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"But hold on," Carlson interjected. "Why would we take Ukraine's side and not Russia's side? It's a sincere question. If you're looking at America's perspective, why? Who's got the energy reserves? Who's the major player in world affairs? Who's the potential counterbalance against China, which is the actual threat? Why would we take Ukraine's side? Why wouldn't we be on Russia's side? I'm totally confused."
"Well, clearly," Turner shot back. "Maybe if you get out a map and you look to see where the Black Sea is and Romania, where we have our missile defense system, with Greece, and Turkey, the entrance to the Black Sea and then from there you look at what the conflicts have already been on Russia's areas there. Ukraine is a democracy. Russia is an authoritarian regime that is seeking to impose its will upon a validly elected democracy in Ukraine and we're on the side of democracy. That's what people were chasing those planes Afghanistan and wouldn't be chasing Russian ones."
Carlson still didn't get it.