At the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky over his comments that if his conflict with Russia does not go his way, then Americans “will have to send their sons and daughters exactly the same way as we are sending their sons and daughters to war.”
Rep. Greene’s message for Zelensky: “You’d better leave your hands off of our sons and daughters because they’re not dying over there.”
Zelensky had claimed that a Ukrainian defeat could lead to Moscow invading other former Soviet states that are now NATO members, such as the Baltic countries. Ukraine itself is not a NATO member.
He said, “If it happens so that Ukraine, due to various opinions and weakening [and] depleting of assistance, loses, Russia is going to enter Baltic states — NATO-member states — and then the U.S. will have to send their sons and daughters exactly the same way as we are sending their sons and daughters to war and they will have to fight because it’s NATO that we’re talking about and they will be dying — God forbid, because it’s a horrible thing.”
The Georgia representative also expressed her opposition to U.S. support for Ukraine, which has been backed by a majority of establishment Democrats and Republicans.
She told the CPAC crowd that she was still “committed to saying no money to Ukraine, and that country needs to find peace, not war.”
