Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, addressed Congress Wednesday to make an appeal to Congress to support his country in its fight against Russian aggression.
In his speech, he asked the lawmakers to think of some of the worst attacks that have happened to our country and said that’s what is happening now in Ukraine.
In his comparison of America’s freedom struggle to Ukraine’s, President Zelenskyy also spoke out about Mount Rushmore (and Pearl Harbor) and September 11. pic.twitter.com/602tA0Qbxr
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“We need you right now [to]Remember Pearl Harbor. The terrible day Dec. 7, 1941 when the planes attacked you. Just remember, remember September the 11th, a terrible day in 2001, when evil try to turn your cities, independent territories into battlefields, when innocent people were attacked,” Zelensky said. “Just like no one else expected it, you could not stop it. Our country experience the same every day right now.”
Zelensky asked for an American no-fly zone to be established over Ukraine. He also requested that additional assistance to Ukraine continue as the country closes its third week of fighting off Russian invaders. According to United Nations estimates, nearly 700 people have been killed.
“This is a terror that Europe has not seen for 80 years, and we are asking for a reply, for an answer, from the whole world,” Zelensky said in his remarks to Congress. “Is that too much to ask for, a no-fly zone?” […]
“I’m almost 45 years old, today my age stopped when the hearts of 100 children stopped beating,” Zelensky said. “I’m addressing President Biden, you are the leader of the nation, your nation. Your leadership is my wish. Being the leader of the world means being the leader of peace.”
Zelensky also mentioned Martin Luther King.
A video of the current struggle in his country was also shown.
This is the video President Zelensky of Ukraine just played to Congress. pic.twitter.com/waTxPAiQBx
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Zelensky does everything he can for his country’s sake and this should come as no surprise to anyone. What’s often missing in this discussion of emotion is that yes, we have some obligation to help them based on the Budapest Memorandum that we signed in 1994 saying if they gave up their weapons that we would guarantee their security. Then folks like Barack Obama got them to give up a lot of their conventional weapons in addition to their nuclear weapons, in retrospect, complete folly when they’re on the border of Russia and then would have no defense. However, Ukraine probably thought the guarantee was something that they had to offer back then.
So that’s to say that we do have an obligation to help if we want our agreements to mean anything in the world. Joe Biden has made a great deal of damage to the U.S. around this issue. But it’s an important thing to convey, particularly to other bad actors like China.
However, it doesn’t mean that we have to put our soldiers into war. Legislators should be obligated to consider what’s in the United States’ best interest.
Unfortunately, we don’t have the unconventional Donald Trump in office to come up with things that work, as he often did. We have Joe Biden who can’t even get out a coherent sentence and some lawmakers who don’t seem to understand all the possible pitfalls in these decisions. So while Zelensky is appealing to Biden, what he got was the complete confusion we saw last week over the question of the Polish MIGs being sent to Ukraine to help with a “no-fly zone.” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said it was a go and then it was countermanded and the Pentagon said it was completely off the table. That was embarrassing for the U.S. and then didn’t provide anything anyway, leaving Zelensky twisting in the wind.
Joe Biden responded that the government will send more drones and weapon systems.
The U.S. will give $800,000,000 MORE to Ukraine in military assistance: Biden
These include:
• 800 anti-aircraft systems (including longer-range)
• 9,000 anti-armor systems
• 7,000 small arms (machine guns, shotguns, grenade launchers)
• 20 million rounds of ammo
• Drones— Jack Detsch (@JackDetsch) March 16, 2022
But he’s not mentioning any planes. This would have been a smart move if it weren’t for Russia to highlight the situation. But his response hasn’t been smart so far.
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