Retired Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a key witness in former President Trump’s first impeachment trial, said Thursday that GOP lawmakers’ “attacks on our democracy” emboldened Russian President Vladimir Putin to go forward with his military invasion of Ukraine.
Vindman, a former National Security Council official, quoted a tweet from Rep. Elise Stefanik (N.Y.), the House Republican Conference chairwoman, that blamed what she called President Biden’s weak foreign policy for allowing Moscow to strike, citing the recent cyberattacks on U.S. businesses and the bloody U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
“Putin is responsible for this war, but you deserve a great deal of responsibility for it,” Vindman responded with the hashtag #GOPownsthis. “It is your vile attacks on our democracy, that suggested to Putin he can conduct this war. Your actions suggested that the U.S. was weak and distracted.”
The Kremlin has been building its forces along the Ukrainian border for weeks, while also conducting joint military operations in Belarus.
In an op-ed piece published by The Atlantic, Vindman, who immigrated to the U.S. from the Soviet Union as a child, wrote the U.S. could’ve done so much more to help Ukraine ahead of the Russian incursion.
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Vindman says GOP "attacks on our democracy" emboldened Putin https://t.co/cQFMI3ZgAM pic.twitter.com/ECHECelkMb
— The Hill (@thehill) February 24, 2022
Putin is responsible for this war, but you deserve a great deal of responsibility for it. It is your vile attacks on our democracy, that suggested to Putin he can conduct this war. Your actions suggested that the U.S. was weak and distracted. #GOPownsthis https://t.co/1cXlBPskFI
— Alexander S. Vindman (@AVindman) February 24, 2022
You shameless opportunist. A war is raging in the middle of Europe, led by an avowed enemy of the United States, and all you can think to do is see if you squeeze some partisan advantage from it. You're a disgrace. https://t.co/qwnUHqRsR4
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) February 24, 2022
This man was once trusted with our most important secrets. https://t.co/JU6zIU09hC
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) February 24, 2022
I'm old enough to remember when Jane Fonda visited North Vietnam and many voices on the Right called for her to be tried for treason. https://t.co/ndpRfVHt0J
— Jeff Greenfield (@greenfield64) February 24, 2022
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