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19-04-2024, 10:49 PM
Mike Johnson’s Shockingly Pro-Ukraine Speech Really Sticks It to MAGA. The House speaker’s comments wrecked one of the far right’s most ridiculous, reprehensible tropes.
A remarkable moment: After introducing a package of bills includes military aid. Suddenly House, Johnson walk and talk like Trump. - Trump Hush-Money Trial Juror Shows Peril of Being Identified). Mike Johnson flatly told reporters on Wednesday that enabling Ukraine to defend itself is in the best interests of America and the world. This surprised a lot of people who had wrongly assumed the House speaker was effectively functioning as a stooge for Vladimir Putin—and Donald Trump—and would thus slow-walk Ukraine aid to death.
Johnson’s new stance has attracted a good deal of positive attention. But I want to highlight aspect of it been overlooked because it’s an important tell about the true state of MAGA ideology and what it’s demanding of Republicans these days.
“I really do believe the intel and the briefings that we’ve gotten,” he said, in a moment that became a mini-speech. “I think Putin will continue to march through Europe if he were find ourselves sending troops to defend allies from Putin later.
Did we really hear speaker say, he believes what our intelligence services have says him about long-term consequences of cutting off aid to Ukraine?
This is a direct challenge to the MAGA worldview in multiple ways. Johnson is treating Putin as the aggressor in the Russia-Ukraine conflict and acknowledging his broader imperialist designs, which is heresy to some MAGA Republicans. But he’s also flatly declaring that on these matters, the deep state is very much to be believed.
Mike Johnson flatly told reporters on Wednesday that enabling Ukraine to defend itself is in the best interests of America and the world.
This surprised a lot of people who had wrongly assumed the House speaker was effectively functioning as a stooge for Vladimir Putin—and Donald Trump—and would thus slow-walk Ukraine aid to death before ever allowing a vote on it.
https://newrepublic.com/article/180808/m...-state-lie
A remarkable moment: After introducing a package of bills includes military aid. Suddenly House, Johnson walk and talk like Trump. - Trump Hush-Money Trial Juror Shows Peril of Being Identified). Mike Johnson flatly told reporters on Wednesday that enabling Ukraine to defend itself is in the best interests of America and the world. This surprised a lot of people who had wrongly assumed the House speaker was effectively functioning as a stooge for Vladimir Putin—and Donald Trump—and would thus slow-walk Ukraine aid to death.
Johnson’s new stance has attracted a good deal of positive attention. But I want to highlight aspect of it been overlooked because it’s an important tell about the true state of MAGA ideology and what it’s demanding of Republicans these days.
“I really do believe the intel and the briefings that we’ve gotten,” he said, in a moment that became a mini-speech. “I think Putin will continue to march through Europe if he were find ourselves sending troops to defend allies from Putin later.
Did we really hear speaker say, he believes what our intelligence services have says him about long-term consequences of cutting off aid to Ukraine?
This is a direct challenge to the MAGA worldview in multiple ways. Johnson is treating Putin as the aggressor in the Russia-Ukraine conflict and acknowledging his broader imperialist designs, which is heresy to some MAGA Republicans. But he’s also flatly declaring that on these matters, the deep state is very much to be believed.
Mike Johnson flatly told reporters on Wednesday that enabling Ukraine to defend itself is in the best interests of America and the world.
This surprised a lot of people who had wrongly assumed the House speaker was effectively functioning as a stooge for Vladimir Putin—and Donald Trump—and would thus slow-walk Ukraine aid to death before ever allowing a vote on it.
https://newrepublic.com/article/180808/m...-state-lie
