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What RFK Jr. said about the Ukraine War, and how a NY Congressman is responding
by Tom EschenSat, September 21st 2024 at 11:35 PM

When interviewing Long Island Democrat Congressman Tom Suozzi at the U.S. Capitol last week, the Ukraine War also came up, as Suozzi visited the country in April, just two months after coming back into office.

https://cbs6albany.com/news/local/what-rfk-jr-said-about-the-ukraine-war-and-how-a-ny-congressman-is-responding

Pointing to a photo of JFK above Suozzi's desk CBS6 asked: "The nephew of that man up there that I've spoken to, says Ukraine has one of the most corrupt governments in the world, and that the US, you said unprovoked, the United States actually provoked the actions of Putin. What do you make of that conversation that is people are using to justify backing out?"

Suozzi says: "That's a complete misrepresentation, and it's very upsetting to me, and we have to remember that Bobby Kennedy's grandfather, Joseph Kennedy, was one of the people that said America first, and said, 'Don't try and stop Hitler. Let's appease Hitler. Let's try and make a deal with Hitler.' So it's the same. It's skipped a generation, but it's back to the exact same thing that was said in America in the 1930s by Bobby Kennedy's grandfather. We can't forget that history.

The bottom line is, is that we have to stand for Democracy. We have to stand for freedom. We can't allow people to say we're going to use our army to go in and just take over your country because we want to do that, and we've got more we're bigger than you are, and we're going to go do that.

That's against the whole international order that we've enjoyed ever since World War Two, and Vladimir Putin and his cronies related to the Chinese Communist Party in Iran and North Korea are trying to use force to try and break that international order, and it is. Nobody likes war, nobody likes to spend in this money. Nobody likes death. But we have to stand for something."