As the D.C. establishment beats war drums with Russia over the country’s potential invasion of Ukraine, on Tuesday night Fox News’ Tucker Carlson pointed out the one question that America’s elected representatives should be answering but for some reason aren’t even being asked.
“The only question that matters, the only question, is how does intervening in Ukraine help the core interests of the United States? And, of course, that is the one question no one in Washington is asking,” Carlson told his viewers in his opening monologue.
On Tuesday, The Daily Wire reported on the growing concern amongst some military experts:
Russia is reportedly preparing to launch a massive invasion into Ukraine in the immediate future with up to 175,000 troops, armor, and artillery as experts warn that Russia is seeking to take advantage of “weakness” from Democrat President Joe Biden.
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The build-up by Russia comes as it demands that the U.S. guarantees that Ukraine will not join NATO and that NATO will not interfere in military activities around Ukraine.
The Daily Wire also reported that President Joe Biden had a virtual meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, but that his “national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, refused to answer on Tuesday whether the world was a more or less safe place after the president met with Russian President Vladimir Putin amid concern that Russia is preparing to invade Ukraine.”
“President Biden was direct and straightforward with President Putin, as he always is,” Sullivan claimed.
“He told President Putin directly that if Russia further invades Ukraine, the United States and our European allies would respond with strong economic measures. We would provide additional defensive material to the Ukrainians above and beyond that which we are already providing,” he continued. “And we would fortify our NATO Allies on the eastern flank with additional capabilities in response to such an escalation”
But prior to that meeting, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) told media that Biden needed “to say to Vladimir Putin that we are no longer going to allow you to continue with the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. We need you to know and understand that we will defend Ukraine, we will provide them assistance. He needs to make that very clear.”
As Carlson put it, Ernst is “a totally affable, nice Republican, sort of reasonable on most things from the Midwest, suddenly sounding like a blood-thirsty warmonger; sounding a lot like actually Adam Schiff when she talks about that dastardly Vladimir Putin.”
“So what happens if we don’t defend Ukraine, Joni Ernst? Will kids in Des Moines grow up to speak Russian? No one asked her that question,” he continued later on. “She’s never thought about it for a moment. But all this reading from the same talking points — Adam Schiff to Roger Wicker to Joni Ernst. It turns out that foreign lobbying campaigns work pretty well. And that’s why the Ukrainians paid for one in Washington.”
The top-rated cable news host also pointed out that Americans never had to worry about new wars under President Donald Trump, something that has been increasingly rare for Americans in recent memory:
“So say what you will about Donald Trump and his Twitter account, maybe you liked him, maybe you were appalled by his personal style. But in retrospect, if there’s one thing that Donald Trump deserves eternal credit for is keeping idiots like that in their box for four years. There were no pointless wars under Donald Trump.
That is not a small thing in recent American history.
In fact, it’s rarely happened over the past century. But through unwavering determination for which he’s not gotten credit — and if there’s one thing he deserves credit for, it’s this — Donald Trump pulled that off.
He resisted again and again when members of Congress, guys from Raytheon, when all the interested parties pushed him to go to war here, there and everywhere, Donald Trump resisted that. And in Washington, above all, they hated him for that … “
Whether or not the U.S. provides military assistance to Ukraine, The Daily Wire reported Tuesday that the White House is apparently preparing to evacuate Americans from the Eastern European country if necessary:
Fresh from the debacle of withdrawing from Afghanistan, where American citizens were left behind in the chaos from the Biden administration’s pullout, a report has emanated that the Biden administration, led by the Pentagon, is making plans to evacuate Americans from Ukraine if needed should the Russians invade their western neighbor. One source told CNN that the Biden administration does not want to be caught “flat-footed” if the Russians invade.
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