Georgia Republican firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is drawing unfavorable comparisons to Russian President Vladimir Putin after blaming President Joe Biden’s leadership for the war in Ukraine.
Greene tweeted Monday that Biden’s “poor decisions” led to the war in Ukraine and that the United States should not intervene militarily. She also criticized retired Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a key figure in former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial. That led Illinois GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a fierce Trump critic, to accuse Greene of effectively taking Putin’s side.
PUTIN INVADED UKRAINE UNDER BIDEN. DEMOCRATS SAY TRUMP IS TO BLAME.
MTG is intensely pro-Putin. This tweet even has twinges of Putinism in it. She blames Biden for not being tough, then in anger puts out a tweet that makes Putin smile. (Never say what you’ll never do). MTG enabled Vladimir. MTG would never fight for anything that’s not self https://t.co/lC92QkFenK
— Adam Kinzinger (@AdamKinzinger) March 7, 2022
Greene has advocated an “America First” noninterventionist position on the Russia-Ukraine war but harshly criticized Putin for invading the country and Biden for failing to project American strength.
“Tragically, people are dying because of Biden’s poor decision making leading up to Putin declaring war on Ukraine,” Greene tweeted Sunday. “Biden’s weakness and failure as a leader not only has put America last but is a danger to the entire world.”
Vindman said Monday that the invasion happened because Greene’s “pro-Putin party encouraged Putin to invade, by cheerleading him.” Greene responded that Vindman was a “clown [who] wants to drag Americans into war” and “clueless about Americans being fed up with sending our sons and daughters to die in foreign lands.”
Greene slammed Putin as a criminal shortly after the war began.
“Putin is a murderer, and he should have never invaded Ukraine,” Greene told reporters at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Florida on Feb. 26. “What he’s doing is completely wrong, and I stand with our NATO member allies, and I am completely against this war. Everything he’s doing is wrong, and he’s killing people.”
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Vindman wrote in Foreign Affairs on Sunday that the U.S. needs to send more aid to Ukraine, while Kinzinger said he supports Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s calls for a NATO-enforced no-fly zone out of humanitarian interest. Putin said he would consider a no-fly zone an “act of war.”
“Putin’s bombardment [of civilian and nonmilitary targets] is why I called for a no-fly zone to be implemented over Ukraine,” Kinzinger explained Sunday. “To prevent the Kremlin’s bloody campaign and prevent unimaginable human suffering, the United States should take the lead to at least create safe-havens for the Ukrainian people.”
Greene spokesman Nick Dyer told the Washington Examiner that “Kinzinger and Vindman are chickenhawk warmongers who would happily send young Americans to die for a war they would never fight in.”
