Asserting that the U.S. should address its own domestic problems before inserting itself into the Ukrainian crisis, Marjorie Taylor Greene told her followers on Rumble that Ukraine was a lost cause. “If we truly care about suffering and death on our television screens, we cannot fund more of it by sending money and weaponry to fight a war they cannot possibly win,” Greene said.
After placing blame for the invasion on President Biden’s “weak” policies, the Georgia Congresswoman allowed that America could still help end the conflict by hosting peace talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelenskyy. This, she said, was both the best outcome of “a war whose outcome already seems certain,” and America’s obligation “as Christians.”
Greene’s address was received poorly on social media. When she posted her video to her Facebook page, followers responded with comments such as “It’s not your place to address the nation in these matters. You are out of line.” Another wrote, “You told Ukraine to give up fighting. We cannot let Tyranny win. People like you that would rather side with Tyranny than fight against it, should be dealt with before more damage is done.”
On Twitter, fellow Congresswoman Liz Cheney tweeted a caustic response, writing, “Putin is targeting and slaughtering civilians in a brutal unprovoked war against Ukraine, a sovereign democratic nation. Only the Kremlin and their useful idiots would call that ‘a conflict in which peace agreements have been violated by both sides.”