CNN: What should Ukraine have done when Russia rolled tanks over the border? WARREN DAVIDSON: Going back to 2013, they should've been clear that they wanted to maintain a friendly relationship with Russia, that they're not posing a threat to Russia CNN: Sometimes you have to stand up to bullies
Ukraine posed no threat to Russia beyond existing.
" Going back to 2013, they should've been clear that they wanted to maintain a friendly relationship with Russia, that they're not posing a threat to Russia" WTF?
This victim blaming is absolutely disgusting. Why is it Ukraine's fault that Russia rolled tanks over the border? Zelenskyy BEGGED Putin not to do it.
Are those idiot Republicans are funded by the Russians?
What the hell has Ukraine ever NOT been clear about? So they should've been nicer to Russia? Are you fucking kidding me? What possible "threat" to Russia could Ukraine pose? Ukraine gave up their nukes. Russia & the U.S signed the Budapest agreement. Heard of it, MAGA? share.google/ALSdpQ5jaedZ...
These Diddling Don sycophants and Russian propagandists need to stop getting airtime. Corporate media is ill equipped to hold anyone accountable.
Somebody’s stealing your shit and you’re supposed to try and be friends with them? What kind of idiotic advice is this?? (Oops I answered my own question.)
You'd think "no, stop" would've worked better against an act of aggression. I mean, kindly asking not to be invaded has always worked historically.
Glory to Ukraine🫶🏼
Ukraine should've launched an immediate shock-and-awe campaign and driven Russia back out. Now, they, and every nearby country, has time to prepare.
Laughable
This is the party modeling alpha maleness for the nation?
Yep, the 2014 yank coup started this war
Maybe if you talk real nicely to Russia, they won’t kidnap your children and bomb your nursing home… give me a fukn break!
The abuser is mad because the people of Ukraine freed themselves from Putin’s puppet. It’s like when the abused woman takes the kids and leaves and the abuser murders them all because they made him do it. These freaks, the GOP, are ALL abusers and this is their mentality.
WTF!
Yes, it’s all Ukraine’s fault. Russia got scared and had to fight back against the big, bad bully. You have got to be kidding me. Wait…he’s not.
Ask him what he thinks of “Stand-your-ground” laws.
Well with that logic it makes sense that hes a GOP congressman that capitulated to Trump
what an asinine statement -- that would have stopped Russia? That's the equivalent of trump rolling the red carpet out for Putin
Is that what we should have done during Pearl Harbor?
Finally a good question from the media!
"If that woman just had been friendly to that big tall guy who stood before her, then maybe he wouldn't have raped her".
Classic beaten GF who leaves abusive psycho BF, dates other people, then the BF tracks her down, beats her, and demands she come back to him. She calls the cops, they put a restraining order on the BF, but then don't enforce it when he comes back to beat her over and over again.
And then the boastful best friend of the BF, and some other nasty guys, invite the GF at their home and start yelling at her about not being grateful and respectful and not wearing the right clothes. And then they throw her out.
They live streamed it on TikTok too.
Yes, gotta show the world what a big tough boy you are.
Yup! That’s the vibe. It’s clearly a case of Ukraine dressing too revealing and asking for it.
Putin didn’t come with tea and biscuits. He came with bombs to kill people and take their land
These folks are blaming the victim. Do what the oppressor said or its okay for the oppressor to hurt/punish/kill you. Violence- be it in the home or internationally always uses the same excuses and always blames the victim.
didn't this guy's orange daddy just tell us russia is 10x the size of ukraine? who's the threat here, warren?
The Russians have abducted over 20k kids in the occupied region skippy. That friend shit is over.
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And thus, another pathetic Republican weighs in... FO.
I got (in 2008/2009) multiple times the question (while living in the US and travelling there with great pleasure) … did you drive here from Europe (they did not check my Colorado plates) 😱… education that’s they key to all our problems in essence
Idiot! The main problem of the Americans is: what country do I gain form … Russia is Mickey Mouse … EU is a force that will take over … ignorance is the key to solve in the US trough proper education …
jesus the fucking delusion coming out of this dude. THEIR COUNTRY. WAS FUCKING INVADED. YOU FIGHT OR YOU WATCH EVERYTHING BURN.
“Sometimes you have to stand up to bullies.” CNN’s irony is on point today!
I think Warren Davidson's advice would've been more convincing if he'd been clear about what he'd do if Russia didn't take a step back - you know, like a "no, stop" with actual teeth.
Omg. I’m so embarrassed to be an Ohioan with reps like him 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
"If she got the dinner on the table faster, her husband wouldn't have beaten her"
Pathetic, pro-Putin Trump-loving MAGAt sycophant says what???
ukraine invaded ffs this guy is dummmmb
ukraine should have told russia, like canada told trump- “go fuck yourself”
He said Ukraine should have understood and accepted Russia annexing Crimea bc people in Quebec speak French.
CNN should shut down.
What a stupid man!
That’s exactly what Ukraine did back then.
The Republican Party in a nutshell. When Trump bullied the Republicans they rolled over so they can’t believe that Ukraine is fighting back.
Warren I know you are woke(ha) but sometimes you can’t just sing kumbaya!
Who is he?
An OH rep to Congress...wonder what any of his Eastern European-American constituents think about this...
Fuck CNN. Why do they think people want to hear the opinions of halfwits and fools?
...so, basically, he's saying that the Ukrainian people shouldn't have bothered protesting Viktor Yanukoych being a Russian stooge in the first fucking place? Amazing how that's Ukraine's fault, and not Russia being a bunch of paranoid, manipulative pricks.
I thought I’d heard the stupidest comment in the world before today. Obviously the Republicans can sink to an even lower low.
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Unbelievable.
Does he honestly think that would have stopped the invasion. Seriously?!? Is this man an idiot? Putin invaded another country. That’s it. THAT IS WHAT HAPPENED. This guy is like ‘Ukraine should have worn a longer skirt’ GFY Davidson
This is common Hoover Institute, Tucker etc. BS. They've been saying essentially this for years. I was into the podcast Breaking Points until one of their hosts started spewing this intellectually lazy idea. You can argue on some elements of the war, but this line of reasoning is crap.
No. Its just that all tyrants (and tyranny-simps) really are inconvenienced by resistance.
Why do these guys always default to a huge, handsome man analogy? They are obsessed with men, their bodies, and how hot they can be 🤔
“But not if our boss is the bully!”
MAGA cucks are gonna cuck. It’s what they do.
Rapist mentality like Trump 🙄
Russia has no intention of stopping the war. If so, Putin would have agreed to a ceasefire.
WARREN DAVIDSON: I just can't believe how f****g stupid this guy is. But hey, what can you expect - another GOP Goober from Ohio who's sole existence is based on slurping Bloatus Maximus' ass and polishing Lil Mikey Johnson' "knob".
Utterly ludicrous, yeah Putin would've been happy to talk about diplomacy - once his tanks had reached Kiev & we're rolling on to take the whole of Ukraine. I'm sure Putin would have happy with that diplomacy
What a fucking spineless shill for Trump/Putin. These “America First” assholes sure love to carry water for an authoritarian regime on the other side do the world that invaded one of our allies. Weird, huh?
Guess they should have rolled out a red carpet for them&provided a boxed lunch.
@cnn.com why do you put stupid people on your programs?
Ukraine should never have given up the nukes thst were in its possession.
nor the bombers and subs it had to deliver them...
What the actual fuck kind of answer is that?
Nice job for this cable news host.
LOL His military strategy to combat takes is to be clear they wished to maintain a friendly relationship!
What an idiotic response. Should the US have done that when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor? Of course not.
This generation of republicans would have let Hitler keep Poland, Czechoslovakia, Holland, Belgium and France.
They would have given them the UK as well.
This generation would have joined the axis ...
they almost did - there were a LOT of conservatives then who were doing bidness with Hitler and didn't want a war...really, it was Pearl Harbor that was the trigger. And it was Germany who declared war on the US first, on Dec.11, by hours...
Well, many US companies partnered with, and funded, the Nazis in the 1930’s with many companies continuing to do so during the war. Capitalism.
So let's say for example, my neighbor pisses in my yard. But his piss are bombs. In order to maintain a friendly relationship, I should give him some of my yard so he'll stop pissing bombs in MY yard?? You think that will satisfy my neighbor? He won't want to expand his piss range more into my yard
Going back to 2013 I guess Ukraine should have let Putin-backed president Yanukovych stay in power even after rejecting a partnership agreement with the EU. 🙄
Bullies? Invading terroristic hostile country is more like it.
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Sometimes?????? Sometimes???????????? WTF
Can cnn not be shit for 3 minutes challenge. Oh, it failed again. Who watches this?
"Used the one nuke they held back, on Moscow."
Pathetically naive
"The tanks came because you weren't friendly enough" "It's your fault I hit you"
he's saying Ukraine should not have ousted a pro-Russian government, that by doing so they deserved having an imperial army first back proxy soldiers in the East and then invade territory and take it
Rapists always blame the victim.
You don't try to take someone else's land, just because you want it! Just like Trump, he didn't stop Israel bombing, but he wants to build in Gaza and take their land. America is being laughed at all over the world.
Clearest evidence that Ukraine would not exist had Trump won in 2020.
"...and you display that friendly relationship by bending over and taking whatever Mother Russia wants to do to you. Acting as though you're a sovereign nation is a threat! Now if you'll excuse me, I have to sign a love letter to Putin from Dear Leader."
It was US Republicans back in 2013 who encouraged Ukrainians to show middle finger to Russia.
Republicans need to keep 🇨🇦 out of their mouths. Using stupid hypotheticals.
Russia invaded another country and everything else is bollocks to excuse not kicking their asses out of Ukraine. A lot of it is specifically stupid American-based bollocks.
What!?!
Just like the US did with al- qaeda!
Did this fucker argue for appeasement?
Mr. Davidson's comment reminds me of Mr. Chamberlain's Nazi appeasement in 1938. The US response in 2013 was tepid in hindsight. Sanctions are peaceful but toothless. Our nation was exhausted by endless, useless war with no appetite for more. However, is not our national interest always global?
What the fuck are they teaching at Westpoint where this asshole graduated from?
i venture a guess that "being friendly" meant requiring their president to be nothing more than a Putin puppet...kinda like Trump, right?
A bully is relentless. A bully thrives on your fear. People stay quiet or get behind the bully because they are scared of the bully and/ also feed off the fear. You gotta kick them in the nuts with your clogs looking all cute in your brownie uniform when the boys pick on your little brother.
Was Ukraine's skirt a bit too short?
"Look, the girlfriend was sick of being controlled, demeaned, and threatened by her long time boyfriend, so she left and started dating other people. It's totally her fault that the boyfriend hunted her down and beat her within an inch of her life, and then demanded she get back with him." -GOP
WTF
Ukraine a threat to russia in 2013? Just take a look at the videos! Ukraine didn’t even have weapons to protect their own soil, how should they be a threat to russia?
They were showing the Russian people that they could live better lives without a maniacal dictator. That made them an existential threat to Putin.
Yes. This. You cannot have a free prosperous democracy right next door. Might give the proletariat ideas...
What he is saying is evil - but I can't stop gaping at his hair! Is he trying to look like Trump? Is he going to start combing it over like a ferret? Is he dyeing it that color to match? Will this become a way to show cult membership - like Manson's followers? I have so many questions.
Russian propaganda should not be given air time
Who is this asshole?
Is this fucking dipshit seriously recommending that Ukraine shouldve invited Russia in illegally, given up their land and people and said we want to be in friendly terms? 😂 that’s the best you got America? I’m turning up with a tank to this fuckwits house
Hey @cnn.com Be outraged & run these liars off stage. Then tell viewers the truth & teach them facts. Yes, its your job to hold powerful accountable & to educate the public with facts.
So blow job then
"She had it coming" - Warren Davidson
There is no such thing as a friendly relationship with a bully.
'Somebody' cashed their Russian Talking Points check.
So when Pearl Harbor was bombed I suppose we should have apologized and conceded Hawaii. Wimps. Cowards. Losers.
At this point, I'm surprised they don't think a red carpet and handpicked flowers to greet them were appropriate. These are the most yellow-bellied cowards I've ever seen in my lifetime.
What's wrong with these people??
Wrong! They should have blown those tanks back into russia. The treaty was instantly violated the moment they did it. Ukraine has resources that russia needs, because they are running out of coal and gas. Those are their only exports worth any money.
Same tired/wrong song and dance… Ukraine is not at fault. Try another career…
Once an angry white male is angry, diplomacy has failed.
Holy fucking shit how do people here in America still not understand being friendly to Russia is seen by them as weakness and an invitation to attack you? What a stupid fucking response from this idiot.
Love this energy from him. More courageous people need to step up.
Is this idiot SERIOUS??? Good Lord!
i'm not sure we should take advice from an adult who still has a little boy's haircut
The Republican Party are obviously assets of Russia and Vladimir Putin.
So gone back in time - got it.
Check his browser history.
Quebecer here. Ahhhhh. 😵💫
"Look, I'm not saying that Ukraine deserves this war, but also that's exactly what I'm saying."
So, the world should have opened up and let Hitler roll through it as a friendly gesture? That's like standing on your religious faith and allowing racists white supremacists to assault you with fists, bricks and stones in the name of peace. No! Bullies must be dealt with, or they'll end you.
He likened trump to a big, noble football player 🙄
Thats why people are standing up to the bullies in DC.
Thank God someone at @CNN has a spine, but this is it? That’s all the pushback?
they're way of dealing with everything is: comply and it'll go easy on you...
would Davison be okay if his neighbor rolled up in his driveway and started kicking in the front door? Would he say he wants to maintain friendly relations? There's a serious problem in the GOP. They hate Communism and Socialism but support Putin trying to roll over Ukraine. Make it make sense.
"The Ukrainians should've just stayed in the abusive marriage with Putin instead of leaving the abuser" isn't the flex that the GOP thinks it is, but it is *spectacularly* on-brand for them.
OMG, burpman has an IQ of a peanut!!!!
The guy on the right is a tool
💩unbelievable💩
My family decided to stay put when the russian mercenaries occupied my hometown. My parents thought the russians wouldn't hurt civilians. My dad was shot on December 31. 2014 by the russian mercenaries on the way home from a grocery store. FU, Warren Davidson! You are a clueless POS!
And by they way, choosing EU in 2013 didn't mean being unfriendly to russia. The russian government was unfriendly especially towards Crimea well before 2013. They claimed that to be their "historical territories".
Would the US behave in the same way if Russian military landed in Alaska? If not, why expect Ukraine to behave differently? Sometimes the nonsense coming out of this administration is beyond parady
So basically he's saying Ukraine should have just rolled over and played dead. Davidson's assessment wouldn't have changed a thing. Putin would have looked at Ukraine trying to maintain a friendly relationship as an invitation to take over the country.
The GOP majority in the House have given up all control to appease Trump. They don't know what it means to stand up to a bully. They only know how to succumb to one.
These people are incapable of placing blame on the perpetrator and not the victim, whatever the situation.
And the ball gargling competition continues!
every republican is a fucking snowflake racist bitch with an IQ in the teens
I think you’re giving them too much credit.
Bullies ….. indeed
Idiot...you mean by promising not to adhere to democratic principles? or hold honest elections? or confine their trade to Russia? or what, exactly? Putin was trying it on in several areas at the time, including Georgia, Moldova, Estonia, etc. Putin wants to reintegrate Eastern Europe and Caucasus
CNN: Sometimes you have to stand up to bullies CNN - the ever-reliable weak statement maker. NO, you ALWAYS stand up to bullies! Bullies, thugs, criminals rely on passivity or weakness to prey on others. The only effective counter is to confront it - openly, CONSISTENTLY, & indefinitely.
Just how many congressmen and women has Putin bought off? This is getting fucking ridiculous.
In 1941 the US should have just said to the Empire of Japan that they aren't a threat and want friendly relations.
Yep, just like how Poland was asking for it from the Nazis. /s
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It all started when the people of Ukraine turfed out Putin's crooked puppet. Democratic self rule of Ukraine is out of the question in Putin's mind, and no peace deal will be safe unless backed by overwhelming defensive military force.
Remember that one time President Trump withheld aid Congress had appropriated to Ukraine because he wanted to pressure Zelensky to manufacture dirt on Trump's political rival (the Biden family)? That may have shaped were we are now. Putin took advantage of Ukraine's perceived weakness.
Red Carpet? 🤔
America First Republicans have been advocating "be nice to fascist invaders" for 80+ years.
Rationale of an abuser. FFS
"That's not an excuse for war, but....." GFY
The debasement of certain people in the political commentator class in the #USA so that the "deal leader is always right" is something to behold!
Be friendly to your oppressors has worked out so well in the past. That dude is a fricken genius!
A lot of people in the Southwest speak Spanish. So…..
Of course -- just as France should have maintained a friendlier relationship with Germany in the 1930s, right?
Wow double plus good on the double speak there
Davidson clearly knows nothing about Russia's mentality or history with Ukraine. And he's believing the lies that Russia and its inserted people. Russia agreed in 1994 about Ukraine's sovereignty including Crimea. Since then, Russia has broken multiple cease fire agreements. 1/
Davidson is nothing but a Russian apologist. SMH He's blaming Ukraine, when he clearly has no relevant knowledge of the history. The US signed, in 1994, the Budapest Memorandum, with Ukraine & UK & Russia, acknowledging Ukraine's sovereignty & borders, & promising support if Ukraine were invaded.
2/ Canada is NOT a comparator. Canada was built by both French and English people. Stop holding up false equivalencies. Russia invaded in 2014 because Ukraine kicked out its puppet leader. Russia wants Ukraine to cease existence and to genocide Ukrainians as Stalin tried. Davidson, you know 0 🇺🇦
3/ Putin is competing with Stalin's legacy. . Years as leader. . Territory held. . Manipulate the US and UK. . Genocide Ukrainians. Stop believing the lies put out by Putin and his bot factory. Russia will not win. It holds less land now than in 2022. Ukrainian troops are holding the line well.
4/ Ukraine is strategically destroying key infrastructure inside Russia: . Oil refineries (oil is 40% of Russia's economy) . Key rail lines & trains that supply Russian troops in Ukraine . Sinking submarine and warship, even with no navy . Destroying irreplaceable warplanes . Destroying factories
5/5 Russia's economy is bad and getting much worse. Ukraine is destroying infrastructure elements of Russia's economy. Russian troops are expensive to hire. This is a huge economic drain. Russian troops are deserting to become prisoners of Ukraine. Ukraine is world leader in drone technology 🇺🇦
This Davidson guy can fuck all the way off. Did he just tell Ukraine they should "Lay back and Enjoy it?"
WTAF
Another neo Nazi sympathizer. Good grief
Sane washing much?
In other words appeasement. These people learned nothing from history.
CNN "Please tell me your full position on support of the criminal and indefensible actions of Russia, I'll wait till your done, without interrupting, then say five words not challenging anything you said oh yeah thanks for coming on tonight".
"Let us be clear, Mr. Putin. We want to be FRIENDS." Yeah, that would have worked. 😡🤣
Just start telling people that landlords should make friends with the squatters. Just cede portions of the home to them because it's friendly.
Oh look - another elected official from Ohio who makes me ashamed to be an Ohioan!
They stopped doing that long ago. They are all david pecker now.
If you think this proxy war was ever about 'stand[ing] up to bullies' I have a bridge to fucking sell you
Big strong Russian snowflakes super scared about puny Ukraine nation that mighty tanks were needed to preserve the most beautiful culture through an invasion. maga: “THIS MAKE PERFECT SENSE!!!! 😃”
Point well made. But, Could we give away Florida anyway? And, maybe Texas? Then they'd be someone else's headache.
Everybody wins!
Texas is blue just gerrymandersed
Unfortunately, until it's ungerrymandered it doesn't look all that blue. And, with the direction the state is taking it may look less blue rather than more come 2026 and beyond.
Theoretically blue states will have dem governors no matter the gerrymandering. They can ameliorate a lot of the republican madness.
Theoretically blue states will have dem governors no matter the gerrymandering. They can ameliorate a lot of the republican madness.
It's gerrymandered, but it's also red. Every state official is Republican, and those elections can't be gerrymandered.
That's not the right way to look at this. There are lots of good people there, and the MAGA's are brainwashed. The rot is with the 1% who control the news, and the Conservatard Clergy.
Indeed
Were giving up Fl , thats good enough for me
Wrong states
A little gerrymandering here with a Sharpie, and I’d get behind it.
No we wouldn’t.
just give them the confederate south, birds of a feather
This is ridiculous. They did nothing to threaten Russia!, Russia doesn’t want them to join NATO, but that’s not up to Russia! Russia/Putin is not king of the world… Likewise, Trump is not king of the world!
sometimes, SOMETIMES??
Republicans support Putin and Russia. So fucking sad.
Mexico should roll tanks over our southern border and test how we’d react.
Unfortunately, a lot of that in the Northern part of the country (Mexico) we helped fund. Under the guise of pursuing cartels. They've used it for that & we are/were (IDK if this has changed now, probably) on the ground with them. I would fully welcome an invasion of our NATO allies.
Does this person not know that Russia signed an agreement to leave Ukraine alone if they gave up nuclear weapon weapons? And the US and UK agreed to protect them if they did? Liars all.
