Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) urged Congress to pass Ukraine aid and warned that lack of assistance could lead to the embattled country facing the “worst atrocity in history.”
MANCHIN not only has a position that isn’t contrarian opposition to what Democrats are trying to do, but he’s passionate about it enough make statements like these? Is it April 01 already? Did he hit his head?
Maybe he got a late visit from the ghost of Christmas future and realized he done fucked up
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He’s not running for reelection anymore, so he’s not beholden to his masters.
side-eyes Gaza
I think there are a few contenders…
The atrocities in Gaza have been ongoing for years, at a slower rate, and there wasn’t much push-back.
Worst atrocity in history? Gaza? Don’t know much history, eh? How about the Holodomor? Hell, Genghis Khan massacred more people than that.
Yeah obviously “worst in history” is ridiculous. But Gaza is certainly worse than Ukraine, saying otherwise is asinine
At least Ukraine had been able to fight back. Russia’s genocide of Ukraine is a mere glimmer in their eye, a vanishingly remote hope.
The Israelis, on the other hand, may succeed in finally clearing all that land for settlement.
Americans are so easily led that they’ve completely stopped caring about Ukraine, cause CNN told them to look over here instead!
The Gaza situation has been going on for decades. Americans haven’t given a single fuck about it until they were told to, with convenient timing.
Not to mention the world events that brought the Israeli’s to that region.
“That’ll be the worst atrocity in history that your children or grandchildren be reading about that we’ve done,” he said.
What if my children or grandchildren can’t read about it, because they starved after climate change induced massive crop failure
MR. MANCHIN WHAT THEN
COME BACK, ANSWER ME
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) urged Congress to pass Ukraine aid and warned that lack of assistance could lead to the embattled country facing the “worst atrocity in history.”
Machin’s call for passing foreign assistance comes as the legislation has stalled in Congress while the Ukrainian military has been struggling with lacking resources and Russian troops advancing further.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has pressured Johnson to put the legislation on the floor.
President Biden and other foreign leaders have echoed similar messages as Johnson and other House lawmakers race to avert a partial government shutdown slated for Friday.
Manchin’s remarks ring similar to comments made by Democratic leadership in both chambers, as Kyiv supporters are pressuring Congress to pass assistance before this holiday recess.
But when asked if his remarks meant he is completely abandoning the idea, the moderate senator said, “I don’t know if anything in Washington, D.C., is 100%.”
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