Zelensky invites House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to visit Ukraine

[kpete]

CNN
—
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is inviting House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to visit Ukraine to see the situation on the ground first hand – an invitation that comes as the Republican Party faces a divide over whether the United States should continue to provide aid to the country under attack from Russia.

“Mr. McCarthy, he has to come here to see how we work, what’s happening here, what war caused us, which people are fighting now, who are fighting now. And then after that, make your assumptions,” Zelensky told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in an interview.

But when told of the invitation on Tuesday, McCarthy told CNN’s Manu Raju that he does not plan to visit Ukraine, and argued that President Joe Biden has not acted quickly enough to aid the country. McCarthy, a California Republican, has said he supports Ukraine but does not support “a blank check,” a position he repeated on Tuesday – even though there is federal oversight of all the dollars that are spent there.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/08/politics/zelensky-mccarthy-ukraine/

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Like Little Kevin would ever go.

[Bettie]

2. Kevin "Cluck Cluck" McCarthy

Poor little Kevin, too scared to go to a war zone, too scared to step over the lines the MAGAt extremists draw for him.

Wonder if he's enjoying the cage he built for himself.

[Eyeball_Kid]

10. McCarthy is absolutely concerned about the MAGA extremists.

They'll butcher him if he goes, and he HAS TO GO. Heads of state are not to be ignored. We'll see what the Speaker does when he is faced with actually doing his job.

[DFW]

3. Ironically, McCarthy knows it is perfectly safe for him to go

Putin would never let any harm come to his greatest ally in the U.S. Congress.

[Walleye]

4. 🐔 🐓 yellow-bellied, lily-livered coward!

And I would say that to his face. He won’t speak directly with Biden or Zelinsky, because he’s not a grown-ass man. He is a feckless boy

[2naSalit]

6. Who can't face...

The reality he foists upon others.

[Walleye]

7. Really, he doesn't mind slamming Biden on TV, but when he gets face-to-face with him he's meek

I cannot imagine Kevin ever standing on principle for anything or standing up to anybody

[2naSalit]

11. Spineless...

And a pretty dim bulb.

[Walleye]

12. Yes a C student at best.

[mucifer]

5. i feel bad for President Zelensky having to deal with these republican monsters with a smile on his

face. He has to try to convince them to keep the ammo and supplies flowing. It probably won't work.

[Walleye]

8. Why won't Kevin go to Kyiv should be said with the same frequency as

As why won’t Biden go to the Mexican border. We should be relentless about this, he’s scared to go to Ukraine, we should rub his nose in it

[Eyeball_Kid]

9. Zelensky gives McCarthy a clear option:

1. Be the coward he is by refusing the invitation.

2. Accept the invitation and alienate his fascist overlords in Congress.

Ignoring an invitation by a head of state is a diplomatic cardinal sin. McCarthy must decide.


Overall, a master stroke of diplomacy by Zelensky.

[Walleye]

13. Zelenskyy is actually better at American politics than most of our politicians are

[ancianita]

14. McCarthy hasn't got the guts to see reality.