Republicans Invent Reasons to Blame Biden for Ukraine

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Republicans are searching for ways to blame the Ukraine crisis on Joe Biden, lambasting the president for his administration’s plans for evacuating Americans from Ukraine

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Republicans Invent Reasons to Blame Biden for Ukraine
Republicans are searching for ways to blame the Ukraine crisis on Joe Biden, lambasting the president for his administration’s plans for evacuating Americans from Ukraine.
1:40 PM · Feb 19, 2022

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It’s crunch time for leaders around the world to thwart a Russian attack on Ukraine. But Republicans in Washington seem to think the entire situation is President Joe Biden’s fault—at least, that’s what they’re trying to convince voters.

Republicans spent much of the week lashing out against Biden, blaming the president for not being tough enough on Russia and ridiculing how the administration is handling evacuations from Ukraine.

The curious part of their criticism is that emergency evacuations from Ukraine aren’t currently needed, both because Russia hasn’t yet attacked and, more importantly, there are still regular commercial flights into and out of Ukraine.

Still, that didn’t stop Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) and several other Republicans from writing a letter to Secretary of State Tony Blinken this week urging him to reverse course on the administration’s stated plan of not running military evacuations of Americans should they get caught in Moscow’s crosshairs in Ukraine.

“This response is wholly inadequate,” the letter said. “This response is a failure of the Commander-in-Chief to keep his law-bound requirements to safeguard American citizens traveling and living abroad and a failure of the Department of State’s leadership to de-escalate conflict or plan and execute a coordinated evacuation effectively.”

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