Zelenskyy’s visit to Pennsylvania weapons factory upsets speaker as Trump continues attacks on Ukrainian president

Zelenskyy’s visit to Pennsylvania weapons factory upsets speaker as Trump continues attacks on Ukrainian president

The US House speaker, Mike Johnson, has demanded that Ukraine fire its ambassador to Washington as the feud between Donald Trump and Volodymr Zelenskyy escalated and Republicans accused the Ukrainian leader of election interference.

In a public letter, Johnson demanded that Zelenskyy fire the Ukrainian ambassador, Oksana Markarova, over a visit to a munitions factory in Scranton, Pennsylvania, last week where the Ukrainian president thanked workers for providing desperately needed shells to his outgunned forces.

Johnson complained that Markarova had organised the visit to the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant as a “partisan campaign event designed to help Democrats”. The event was attended by the Pennsylvania governor, Josh Shapiro, a Democrat who has campaigned in support of Kamala Harris.

  • Erasmus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    99·
    3 months ago

    Being a kid of the 80s and living on the tail end of the Cold War this is just so weird.

    The Republicans then, under Reagan, really viewed the Russians with disdain. We were constantly told - both by them, school, and the media, how Russia and Communism was the greatest evil on this planet.

    Now all I see every time I turn on the news is some shadow of a Republican, gargling the balls of a Russian leader or representative.

    It’s WEIRD I tell you, it’s like that movie The Manchurian Candidate is playing out only they’ve replaced the whole party.

    • Olhonestjim@lemmy.world
      18·
      3 months ago

      I remember Republicans warning in the 80s that the Russians would attack America from within. Made sense, the way the KGB operated.

    • WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world
      17·
      3 months ago

      Republicans now see how much money the leaders of modern Russian are siphoning out of the countries coffers, and realise they can do that too in the US.

    • mineralfellow@lemmy.world
      71·
      3 months ago

      The documentary “The Family” offers the explanation that Russia has a strong traditional family values contingent that appeals to the right-wing idealogy.

      • takeda@lemmy.world
        4·
        3 months ago

        this guy and family values???

        In 20s we had Jews, now this position was taken by gays and trans. Fascists always need an enemy to rile up others.

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
    59·
    3 months ago

    Trump-Zelenskyy feud

    Which is synonymous with Putin-Zelenskyy feud. I don’t think anyone is surprised that Putin’s bitch is doing Putin’s biding.

  • MutilationWave@lemmy.world
    29·
    3 months ago

    Not everything is about our fucking election. One side wants to continue funding Ukraine and the other side wants Russia to win wants to stop funding. What does that have to do with the election? Where was this talk when Trump, not even an elected official, had Viktor Orbán over?

  • SelfProgrammed@lemmy.world
    122·
    3 months ago

    Watching our senators and congresspersons in how they respond to Ukraine and simultaneously how they respond to Israel is absolutely sickening. We’re not Russia but it seems like our representatives want us to be just as authoritarian, just as ruthless, just as disconnected from reality. I know it’s not the whole of the house, but the bad apples are the loudest.

  • saltesc@lemmy.world
    5·
    3 months ago

    Ironically,.not many people would’ve known about this. Now they do and hiis behaviour paints the Republican Party poorly. it is such a very normal and inconspicuous thing,.and then he does this,.making me wonder wtf is up with him and that party.

  • LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee
    226·
    3 months ago

    I don’t get how people honestly think Trump is Putin’s bitch. Trump is a malignant narcissist and impossible to be “handled”. He’ll throw anyone and everyone under the buss and had no problem escalating with Russia. The thing is that Trump like his base simply don’t give a shit about any Slavic people, even if they’re married to one. The republicans are simply not susceptible to the “justice and democracy” nonsense the liberals are selling. So Trump does whatever serves Trump and he had no problem arming the worse of the far right elements in Ukraine:

    From this

    Manafort duly resigned, and the RussiaGate racket erupted–a connivance that went some way to ensuring the “pro-Ukrainian agenda in American foreign policy” wasn’t compromised one iota.

    Indeed, Trump’s term in office was typified by ever-escalating hostility between Washington and Moscow, the Oval Office resident going to dangerous lengths his predecessor had consistently refrained from to arm and galvanize the most reactionary and violent elements of the Ukrainian armed forces, including the notorious Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, and tear up Cold War arms control treaties, much to Moscow’s chagrin.