it knows. it saythe s unmanned drone was harassed and damaged by two russian fighter jets ove over w international waters.. it s all we have. we s all we have. we re going have to take re e their word for it. everybody else seems to be. lierybody else seems to be. lindsey graham didn t ask many penetrating questions. no, he moved immediately, seized the opportunity to demanthat thed the pentagon k the russian air force.here he here he is . what we should hold them accountable and say that if you t nearever get near another upsa flying in international watersl. your airplane would be shot down.ld what would ronald reagan do right now? ronalhe would he would startn e shooting russian planes down if they were threateninreg our assets. what would ronald reagan do? good quewould ronald reagan do? oh, good. senator graham. ronald r. senator graham. question. senator graham, ronald reagan s two term presidency was notablen for the fact that he did not declare war on the russian
well, it means that the republican presidential nomine almose, almost no mattern who it is , will oppose an open ended commitment to fund the war in ukraine in orde rhe war in ukraine in orde to fight russia forever. now , their position is , in fact, fully in line with the overwhelming majority ofcan conservative voters, the ones who choose the republican nominee. but thosthose voters have beenet utterly disenfranchized for the past year, as linsey rorahamt year, as linsey and the atlantic magazine and the ghost of ronald reagan have been permitte beepermitd tk bad faith.permitte beepermitd tk but it s not just conservative voters who don t want war with russia. whf allofwith russia. voters. and now there are a peoplell running for office. in fact, the most powerfuln office who agree with voters, as in a democracdemocracy. was, so for the war party in washington, this is a flat out disaster. the people don t want it. we juswet spent two yearsdemocrac, lecturing you about d
it. how cann you defend democray and push a war that the population doesn t want or you can t? their n t? so they re panicking. and the response is reallyson, interesting. instead of con responding with arguments or reasons, sort of convincin with rug americans that war with russia will benefit them in some way, they re just pushing ahead for that warin with russia. they don t care aboute t ukraine at all.y woul ukraine means nothing to them. if it did, they want to halt mor the war because apparently more than a hundred thousand are ukrainians have already died, but they don t care. they re keeping the war going. that s how much they carthate ah ukraine. sing uso they re pushing us o war. and by the way, shooting down i russian jets that don t fire on us first is an act of war.of th first is an act of war.of it ats the definition of anlr act of war. pe and , od inf course, so w and , od inf course, things military, knows that perfectly well. so wegraham lindsey graham to
president vladimir zelenskyyk makes an offer to theve us housh speaker kevin mccarthy is refusing at, for example, hya was invited to kenovake zelenskyy. any other speaker of the house would have obviouslye gone thee to show solidarity with our t ally. this is all completelyhis is al kevin mccarthy kind of pandering to the extreme wing of his party wha. g what is your reaction to kevin mccarthy refusing president zelenskyy t zelenskyse invitation to come to ukraine or discuss with him directly aid to ukraine? i don t know what kind ofngle single celled creature kevin mccarthy is . more like ameba or it s an paramecium. he is letting down the united states . i understand kevin mccarthy, again, is playin g to his isolationist america first, which is actually not america aa first is actually americlla last on the world stage? wow.. these people are going a lot to answer for at some point,y, hopefully soon. but imagine degrading scenario is.ne degrading the scenario you just
us we have to attacktack t the russian air force. wee russian air force. well, let s see. on monday, there was a major development in the twenty twenty four presidential race. o we saw a list of questions, the likely republican candidates, and we askeblican cand asked where thed on the war in ukraine.. we the war in ukraine.. and we fully expected that most of theldm would agree with linsy graham and virtually every officeholder in washington,in w d.c.ceholder in washington,in w but, no. d.c. but no, that s not what happened. in fact, the opposite happenedlly, wit virtually with exception. every republican presidential hopefu hopeful froml from donald trumps on the record to ron desantis to greg abbott, kristi noem,oths vic ramaswamy and others has turned against the iders has turned against the idea of a hot war with russia. war wiin fact, ron desantis desd war wiin fact, ron desantis desd as a, quote, territoryqu real te dispute that is not even in the top five critical national se