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Gaetz Tells Bolling Russia Would Be Better NATO Member Than Ukraine: ‘Probably Provides More Benefit Long-Term’

www.mediaite.com Gaetz Tells Bolling Russia Would Be Better NATO Member Than Ukraine: ‘Probably Provides More Benefit Long-Term’

With all of the recent talk of inviting Ukraine to join NATO, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) told Newsmax anchor Eric Bolling that he has a better idea.

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If you knew absolutely nothing about anything just looking at the GOPs stance on Russia 30 years ago to now, shows you immediately how full of shit and propaganda the party is.

They've literally gone from fuck the reds to sucking Putins cock.

A complete 180 on their "values", without even flinching...

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- Yes, I believe they are called traitors.
  
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- Better dead than red.
  
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- Not to be that guy but Democrats were all up on Putins dick like 20 years ago. He came and spoke at some universities and denounced the war in Iraq. It was good publicity for him for sure. I thought he seemed pretty chill but I was barely a teenager yet.
  
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  I was a leftist teenager in the W Bush years and I was very much pro-Putin/Russia. I even used to watch RT occasionally. It wasn't until around 2012, with the handling of Pussy Riot that I started to look more closely at what modern Russia actually was, and what kind of leader Putin was. I remember laughing at Romney back in 2012 before all of that, when he said that Russia was out biggest threat. Fast forward to 2016 and I realised just how right he was, and I really don't like agreeing with Mitt Romney.
  
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  So what? Putin hadn't gone full Nazi yet and was for the most part a respected world leader. The fact that he spoke up against the bullshit Iraq war, just shows that even assholes can be right occasionally.
  
  Putin of 2000 is not Putin of 2020.
  
  And furthermore, I'd say there's a big difference between let him give a speech at a university and let him have Ukraine.
  
  Not to be that guy, but you're absolutely that guy looking for bOtH sIdEs false equivalencies.
  
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  W: He has evil eyes.
  
  Trump: Give him Ukraine, what could happen.
  
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  Was this imagined time before or after W looked into his eyes and saw his soul and how good he would be for Russia?
  
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NATO WAS BUILT SPECIFICALLY TO OPPOSE RUSSIA, MORON!

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- Who says Russia can't join in on that goal? /j
  
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- In fairness, in the very early 2000s, before it became obvious Russia was just going to continue being a dick, Russia was on the path of becoming a NATO ally.
  
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- Which makes one wonder why they were still around after the collapse of the USSR. Well, they've managed to create jobs for themselves since then, so congrats to them.
  
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- NATO was built to oppose the USSR, of which Russia was a member state. Do not confuse them. Modern Russia is feeling the effects of the Soviet era, but that doesn't make them the same country.
  
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  Although you are correct from a historical perspective, you are not from a foreign policy perspective.
  
  With the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, the United States considered the Russian Federation as the successor state of the USSR.
  
  Via The US State Department
  
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  You might be technically correct but the distinction largely does not matter in terms of the West taking a hard line against military aggression in Eastern Europe.
  
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But he also fucks kids, so maybe his opinion isn’t worth much huh?

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- Makes you wonder about what's in his blackmail file that keeps him so willing to be a Kremlin mouthpiece.
  
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  I bet he's just being paid with money and fresh kids every month.
  
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Traitorous scumbag.

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Is this an alternative fuxking timeline we're in?

Do republicans WANT to be seen as traitorous evil dixkheads? They seem to think they can spin anything and their idiot supporters will believe it, and, after trump, they're probably right.

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- It's pretty insidious. I've seen Republicans wearing shirts that say things like, "I'd rather be Russian than Democrat."
  
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  I'm old enough to remember when the right was saying "better dead than red" (referring to the Soviet Union, not to "red/Republicans"). They went from "better dead than red" to "better Russian than Democrat" scarily quickly.
  
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  If you remind yourself that everything this band of dipshits does is in Russia's favor, then the world makes sense.
  
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  There's a bunch of people at the side of the road by the local mall every day with tons of flags and signs like "good bless America because Biden doesn't" and "defund 🇺🇦 refund 🇺🇸". Yet during protests by democrats they're all going on about how the democrats protesting must have no jobs and should be working instead of protesting.
  
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Friendly reminder a significant portion of the Republican party has been in Putin's pocket since at least 2016!

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- 1980s. Trump never said or did anything about politics until he went to Russia in 1987.
  
  The top level of the Soviet diplomatic service arranged his 1987 Moscow visit. With assistance from the KGB. It took place while Kryuchkov was seeking to improve the KGB's operational techniques in one particular and sensitive area. The spy chief wanted KGB staff abroad to recruit more Americans.
  
  https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/19/trump-first-moscow-trip-215842/
  
  Trump ran for president shortly after in 1987-88.
  
  1989 he took out a full page ad to publicize the case and called for the death of the central park five, now known as the exonerated five, as they were innocent.
  
  Wonder what the Russians said to him.
  
  They got Steven Seagal, Rudy Giuliani, a bunch of others. All are Republicans, including Tulsi Gabbard and RFK.
  
  Traitors to America, each.
  
  E: Czech Espionage campaign against Trump began in 1977. Ivana Trump was investigated for years by the FBI as a spy. Trump's phones were tapped and letters read by Czech intelligence. Wonder what compromising information they learned. https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/soviet-linked-spies-targeted-trump-after-he-married-ivana-knowing-he-wanted-to-be-president-one-day/
  
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Gaetz is on par mentally with Boebert and MGT. Is China really building a secret military base in Cuba? Not so secret now, I guess, unless it's supposed to be common knowledge and he didn't just let slip a piece of national security.

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He clearly doesn’t know what NATO is or why it exists

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The amount of double speak from this guy is insane

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god damn he's dumb.

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- ~~dumb~~ a Russian operative.
  
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In that case, imagine how much long term benefit China could bring.

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The redcoats are cumming

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How would that even work? Then we'll have to deal with figuring out what to do when "allies" attack other members.

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- This would mean that Article 5 - the mutual defense clause - would come into effect whenever Russia manufactured a conflict claiming it was being attacked. So what then? America would have to send in its military in order to fight a war in Transnistria? America would have to commit troops to wage war in South Ossetia? America would have to defend Crimea against "attacks" from Ukraine?
  
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They wanted to join NATO. NATO said no, and here we are.

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