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Biden is committing an Act of War, without approval from Congress, by authorizing Ukraine use of long range missiles into Russia,
Marjorie Taylor Greene also chimed in ... she posted to X on Monday Without the Americans, it is impossible to use these high-tech missiles,
President Trump is exactly right about this — the alliance is stronger when Western European countries step up to the plate,
I don't believe that he's a man that usually walks away,
I don't like it and I take it all very seriously, but the decision is not ours. The decision is being forced upon us by Putin — by the dictator,
My criticism of Biden is the same as every other conservative and supporter of Trump — which is that the Biden administration slow walked this,
[The ... The] American people elected Joe Biden to a four-year term, not to a term of three years and 10 months, and we will use every day of our term to pursue the foreign policy interests that we believe are in the interests of the American people.”
A state department spokesperson, Matthew Miller, defended the decision during a press briefing on Monday, saying Joe Biden has just set the stage for World War III. Let’s all pray that it doesn’t come to this.”
Other Republicans to sound off included the far-right congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and the Utah senator Mike Lee, who said On the first day they could announce, ‘We are suspending this authorization pending a review of Ukraine policy,
said Mark Cancian, a senior adviser with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a thinktank based in Washington I can’t predict what Trump will do,
No one anticipated that Joe Biden would ESCALATE the war in Ukraine during the transition period. This is as if he is launching a whole new war,
Ric Grenell, Trump’s former acting director of national intelligence, wrote on X, formerly Twitter The United States has been clear throughout this conflict that we will make our policy decisions based on the circumstances we identify on the battlefield, including in recent days and weeks a significant Russian escalation that involves the deployment of a foreign country’s forces on its own territory,
Biden knows the danger of dragging the U.S. into conflict with Russia,
This was a crossing of a red line and adds fuel to the fire
But Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov was adamant I think Biden, Macron and Starmer want escalation which could lead to, from my understanding, in the worst scenario, the nuclear war happens before Christmas of this year
My reaction was awful, I couldn't sleep well because I am just afraid nuclear war is coming
If such a decision was indeed formulated and brought to the Kyiv regime, then this is a qualitatively new round of tension and a qualitatively new situation from the point of view of US involvement in this conflict,
Today, many in the media are saying that we have received permission to take appropriate actions.”
Zelenskyy said in an evening address on Sunday Ukraine needs to be able to hit Russian supply chains which it has moved back beyond current Ukrainian missile range,
Timothy Ash, an associate fellow in the Russia and Eurasia programme at Chatham House, told Al Jazeera Russia has been escalating anyway over recent weeks, seemingly ignoring Trump’s request to Putin not to escalate,