Hours after Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky brought a rare joint session of the House and Senate to their feet in applause, Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene rejected his calls for support in a video replete with tropes from Russian propaganda.
Ms Greene, a first-term representative and alleged supporter of conspiracy theories such as QAnon, said she “weeps” at the “images of men, women and children” in Ukraine who’ve been wounded or killed by Russian attacks, but added that “cannot allow our compassion to blind us to reason and common sense” because a “potential war with Russia” cannot be compared with America’s most recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Continuing, Ms Greene launched into a litany of false statements about the current conflict and Mr Zelensky’s government.
First, she claimed Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine is part of an “eight-year long smouldering conflict in which peace agreements have repeatedly been violated for both sides”.
In reality, the “conflict” was launched in 2014 when Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered an unprovoked invasion of the Crimean Peninsula, which is recognised under international law as part of Ukraine’s sovereign territory. Mr Putin also fomented and backed separatist movements in the eastern half of Ukraine, in areas that now comprise the so-called “people’s republics” which he recognised to provide a pretext for the larger invasion he launched last month.
The Republican representative also claimed...
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