widely but it sort of is worth watching from here on out. earlier this month democratic congressman from arizona led a congressional trip to ukraine. congressman gallego who is a u.s. marine said the u.s. should provide ukraine better weapons so the ukrainians can better defend themselves against russian troops. turns out not everybody in russia appreciated the comments from the congressman including one member of the russian sort of pretend parliament who went on state sponsored russian tv last week to declare as punishment for those comments about ukraine congressman ruben gallego should be, a, placed under surveillance and, b, kidnapped. i think it is fair to say to congressman gallego was less than fazed by that threat from the russian parliamentarian and tweeted in response, f around and find out with an american flag emoji. it is sort of hard to know if that was the sort of thing
designed to have a nice, domestic shelf life on russian state tv or if this is an actual thing to worry about from the guy in the russian parliament but since that initial weird threat of violence from that russian politician toward a sitting u.s. congressman things have escalated for the worse. that same russian politician has gone back on russian tv to say congressman gallego deserves to be convicted in a russian court of what crime i don t know. he says once that verdict is handed down congressman gallego s sentence should be carried out by the same guy who, quote, ice axed trotsky to death. so he should be ax murdered. again, maybe this is just domestic audience nonsense from russian politicians but at a certain point no matter what the point of all of this is for them it sort of has to be taken seriously, right? these are repeated violent threats against a sitting member of congress from a country that is poised to invade one of our allies. watch this space.
he says once that verdict is handed down, congressman gallego s sentence should be carried out by the same guy who, quote, ice axed trotsky to death. so he should be ax murdered. again, maybe this is just domestic audience nonsense from russian politicians, but at a certain point no matter what the point of all of this is for them it sort of has to be taken seriously, right? these are repeated violent threats against a sitting member of congress from a country that is poised to invade one of our allies. watch this space. all right.
u.s. marine, said the u.s. should provide ukraine better weapons so ukrainians can better defend themselves against russian troops. turns out not everybody in russia appreciated the comments from the congressman including one member of the russian sort of pretend parliament who went on state sponsored russian tv last week to declare as punishment for those comments about ukraine congressman ruben gallego should be, a, placed under surveillance and, b, kidnapped. he should be kidnapped. i think it s fair to say congressman gallego was less than fazed by that threat from the russian parliamentarian and tweeted in response, eff around and find out, with an american flag emoji. it is sort of hard to know if that was the sort of thing designed to have a nice, domestic shelf life on russian state tv or if this is an actual thing to worry about from the guy in the russian parliament but since that initial weird threat of violence from that russian politician toward a sitting u.s. congressman
intelligence agencies russia appears poised to invade ukraine again like they did in 2014. now today the u.s. government appears to be taking the threat more seriously, enough that the state department updated its travel advisory for u.s. citizens and is explicitly warning american citizens, do not travel to ukraine, quote, due to increased threats from russia. so that threat of russia potentially invading ukraine looms in the background. there is also something bizarre to know about going on between the u.s. and russia that involves a member of congress. i don t know if this has received a lot of attention widely, but it s sort of worth watching from here on out. earlier this month a democratic congressman from arizona led a congressional trip to ukraine. congressman gallego, who is a