Gallego, who joined the Senate last after serving in the House for about 10 years, made the comment on X, where he insisted that Ukraine could win the war if its forces killed enough Russians.
“But Ukraine can win. Thats why I back them. It’s a Russian talking point that Ukraine can’t win, cause Russia big blah,blah. If Ukraine kills enough Russians they will quit,” Gellego, an Iraq war veteran, wrote.
A user replied, telling the Senator to join the Ukrainian foreign legion, to which he replied, “No, that’s the beauty of this; we can pay the Ukrainians to kill the Russians.”
In another post a few days earlier, Gallego called for Elon Musk to testify before Congress about Ukraine’s recent Starlink restrictions. A user asked if he was pushing the Ukraine war for “financial gain,” and Gallego replied, “No just hate the fuckin Russians.”
We’re so garbage. Trump really represents us well.
Russia can abandon their illegal, brutal, inhuman, and completely unnecessary invasion of Ukraine at any time.
Well, I don’t hate all Russians, but a large, probably the majority of Americans, grew up or were alive during the Cold War. Seeing Trumpty Dumpty verbally smoking Putin’s sausage all the goddamned time really pisses me off. Any other past US President that did that would have been politically finished. The Orange Shitler just gets more applause. It’s disgusting.
Okay.
But Ukraine can win. Thats why I back them. It’s a Russian talking point that Ukraine can’t win, cause Russia big blah,blah. If Ukraine kills enough Russians they will quit,” Gellego, an Iraq war veteran, wrote.
A user replied, telling the Senator to join the Ukrainian foreign legion, to which he replied, “No, that’s the beauty of this; we can pay the Ukrainians to kill the Russians.”
Yeah…
The alternative to not supporting Ukraine financially, is Russia wins and then we will likely need to fight Russia spending even more money and the lives of our own military…
This is the entire reason countries donate to other country’s war efforts.
I hate this stupid shit where support has to be everything or it’s nothing. If that’s how things happened there’s be constant world wars.
But that senator needs to learn to engage with his actual constituents and spend less time arguing with foreign trolls on twitter.
It’s one of those things where, like… He’s not wrong, but what a fucking awful way to phrase it.
Yes, from a coldly pragmatic perspective, funding Ukraine’s efforts to defend their sovereignty against an invading foreign power is both the morally correct choice, and an incredibly cost effective way of doing damage to a state that is directly opposed to America’s interests. Even if you don’t care that Ukrainians need American support to defend their right to life and liberty, it’s still the correct choice from a completely selfish perspective just because of how much damage is being done to Russia for very little cost.
But holy fucking yikes, ‘Beauty’ was not the word to use to explain that.
“No just hate the fuckin Russians.”
Beautiful.
Yah, I thought that was rather poetic.
