On Wednesday, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville told Alabama Today, “We have got to get out of this war in Ukraine. Ukraine can’t beat Russia.”
During Tuberville’s weekly phone call with media members, Alabama Today asked Sen. Tuberville if now would be a good time for the United States and its allies to press Ukraine and Russia to negotiate an end to the fighting.
“The war in Ukraine is a disaster for the United States,” Tuberville responded. “We jumped in all four feet, knowing that we didn’t have enough munitions to help Ukraine. We don’t want to put boots on the ground. I am all for Ukraine, but you have got to have an opportunity to win, and we don’t have one person that has any insight in terms of diplomacy from this White House or this administration. Secretary [Antony] Blinken has done zero. You know, the Chinese laugh at the guy. President [Joe] Biden needs to be on the phone every day to stop this. We have gotten hundreds of thousands of people killed. There is all kinds of rumors about money that has been stolen from the American taxpayer that is going over there. We don’t know.”
Tuberville says that the Biden Administration is sharing very little intelligence on the situation with the Senate Armed Forces Committee, on which he serves.
“I am on the Armed Services Committee,” Tuberville said. “We get very little intel and obviously very embarrassed about this administration when they tell us about all these documents that have been released. They were caught. They were caught red-handed with lying to the American people, lying to the media, and you can’t trust them. You can’t trust our government up here, so every day, there is something different.”
Tuberville said it is important to end this war as soon as possible.
“It is unfortunate that it is like that, but somehow, we have got to get out of this war in Ukraine,” Tuberville continued. “We have got to get Ukraine out in terms of getting more people killed. Russia is not going to let up. It is going to continue to go on. They are waiting for the ground to dry out, and they will have an offensive of their own.”
Tuberville blamed hawks in Washington for this situation.
“It is unfortunate this has happened,” stated Tuberville. “We have got way too many hawks up here that wanted to jump in there thinking that Ukraine can beat Russia. Ukraine can’t beat Russia. We would be lucky to beat Russia right now, given the few munitions that we have. Given how much that has been given away. There is not a lot of thought that has gone into this other than just them sticking their chest out, saying we are going to do it this way. It’s gotten us in pretty deep in terms of problems that we are having right now as the United States.”
Tuberville did not mince words in his criticism of the Biden Administration and its foreign policy.
“They have lied to us about Ukraine,” Tuberville told reporters. “They have lied to us about a lot of different things. This administration has just absolutely been a joke when it comes to foreign policy.”
Tuberville was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2020 following a forty-year career as an educator, coach, and sports broadcaster.
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