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Did Russia Invade Ukraine? Is Putin a Dictator? We Asked Every Republican Member of Congress | Two simple questions, few straight answers

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Did Russia Invade Ukraine? Is Putin a Dictator? We Asked Every Republican Member of Congress

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Hearing the GOP fall silent on Post-Soviet Russian Aggression would have both Reagan and my grandfather rolling in their graves…
Wtf happened to the US man…
- All things come to an end. Even the US
  The crazy thing is the person who told me this as a child doesn't recognize that it's happening right now
  Maybe it's the plastic in our brains? I swear humanity is getting noticeably stupider year over year
  
  More likely lead in the gasoline
- Yeah I honestly think we should pass a law that says any campaign donation needs to have a name on it. I don’t care if 2000 people donate to a super pac and a company sticks it’s name on it, or if all 2000 people are identified, but anonymously giving people money is a no go for private citizens EVEN IF IT”S NOT TAXABLE
- Fox News.
  Basically.
- Reagan happened to the US.
They know the right answer and they know the Trump answer
You have to specify which one you want
But if you want the right answer you're gonna have to wait 4 years for it, the great emperor doesn't like the right answer
- What's going to be different in 4 years?
  
  Possibly Trump gets shot and Vance declares himself emperor
Ted Cruz sharing a link saying to chatgpt saying that he said it is an absolutely crazy loophole to this question.
- The Atlantic was going to publish any response, no matter how bonkers. If a congresscritter decided to send them a Saturday Night Live skit about beavers building a dam in the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, they'd have described that response in the article.
  
  Can we elect you? Cause that sounds like a very interesting response. Congress interpretive dance, at it were.
  
  When I said loophole I meant that if Putin ends up wanting to defenestrate him he can just say "it was chatgpt I never said that"
Putin's a dictator and Trump's his dick taster
The House Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by Representative Brian Mast of Florida, opted to stake out a position that seemed different from Trump’s: The panel posted a screenshot of our questions on X, with the caption: “ON THE RECORD: Russia invaded Ukraine & Putin is a dictator. But that doesn’t mean our European allies shouldn’t match Russian military spending & recruitment.”
What does that mean? Do they want Europe to deploy a million soldiers to Ukraine?
- Someone should tell him that the EU already massively outspends Russia and has more active military personnel, before you even include non-EU NATO members like the UK and Norway

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