Conservative Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has prompt how Russia and Ukraine can attain a peace deal and finish their five-month battle.
Speaking on a podcast on Sunday by @catturd2, (aka. Cat Turd), considered one of Greene’s favourite Twitter customers, the divisive lawmaker mentioned she was against the U.S. funding a “proxy war” with Russia and Ukraine.
“I am completely against funding this proxy war with nuclear Russia and Ukraine. I think we should be caring about our country. Of course, no one supports what happens there, everybody feels sorry for the Ukrainian people and all that, but you know what, our country matters, so to me, I’m not concerned at all about Ukraine. I’m concerned about America,” she mentioned.
Taylor Greene detailed her plan on the best way to finish the battle, which started on February 24 when Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion he known as “a special military operation.”
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Greene mentioned that Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ought to sit down on the negotiating desk.
“Vladimir Putin wants access, he wants one of the ports,” Greene mentioned. “OK, we’ll sit down with these two people and say a negotiation is where two parties each have to give up something to come to an agreement right?
“Well the battle wants to finish, we do not have to be funding battle over there. We do not desire a battle with Russia, nicely not less than I do not, no person else does besides the army industrial complicated right here in [Washington] D.C.
“But nobody wants this war so sitting down at the negotiating table should look like ‘OK Putin we’ll talk about access to this port but you have to make Ukraine whole.’ You’ve destroyed their country, you’ve killed all these people, make them whole.”
Russia has taken Ukraine’s southern metropolis of Mariupol, a strategically key port that lies on the Black Sea. It has not but taken Odesa, Ukraine’s largest port metropolis, however there are fears that it could possibly be Putin’s subsequent goal.
Newsweek has contacted Greene’s group for remark.
Peace talks between Moscow and Kyiv have frozen since early April, when negotiations brokered by Turkey in Istanbul collapsed.
As of July 5, the U.S. has dedicated roughly $7.6 billion in safety help to Ukraine for the reason that starting of the Biden administration in January 2021. Some $6.9 billion of that has been dedicated for the reason that begin of the battle.
The Pentagon on July 1 introduced $820 million in extra safety help for Ukraine, together with a Presidential Drawdown of safety help valued at as much as $50 million, in addition to $770 million in Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative funds.
The U.S. is contemplating offering Ukraine with extra fighter jets and pilot coaching to assist its forces combat Russia.