Being a kid of the 80s and living on the tail end of the Cold War this is just so weird.

The Republicans then, under Reagan, really viewed the Russians with disdain. We were constantly told - both by them, school, and the media, how Russia and Communism was the greatest evil on this planet.

Now all I see every time I turn on the news is some shadow of a Republican, gargling the balls of a Russian leader or representative.

It’s WEIRD I tell you, it’s like that movie The Manchurian Candidate is playing out only they’ve replaced the whole party.

no Republicans were invited

So? Why would they invite the assholes trying to sabotage everything? Putin wasn't invited either.

He's still upset Zelenskyy didn't falsify evidence about Hunter Biden for him.

Trump-Zelenskyy feud

Which is synonymous with Putin-Zelenskyy feud. I don't think anyone is surprised that Putin's bitch is doing Putin's biding.

Okay, I might be oversimplifying a bit here, but is the speaker of the house escalating global tensions simply because he wasn't invited to a party?

Amongst all of the Republican insanity of recent years, the thing that definitely stands out to me the most, as the weirdest, is their slavish subservience to Putin.

I understand it from an extremely cynical point of view, but still, it's just so weird snd so directly contrary to everything they've ever claimed to stand for. It's hypocrisy and malfeasance and amorality and pathetic subservience all rolled into one and cranked up to 11.

Not everything is about our fucking election. One side wants to continue funding Ukraine and the other side ~~wants Russia to win~~ wants to stop funding. What does that have to do with the election? Where was this talk when Trump, not even an elected official, had Viktor Orbán over?

Jesus christ everything is election interference for them. Jesus himself could came back and praise Bill Clinton and they'd claim that's election interference

Zelensky is the better man.

“lol no”

Watching our senators and congresspersons in how they respond to Ukraine and simultaneously how they respond to Israel is absolutely sickening. We're not Russia but it seems like our representatives want us to be just as authoritarian, just as ruthless, just as disconnected from reality. I know it's not the whole of the house, but the bad apples are the loudest.

So they’re traitors AND cry babies.

"I could fire him, but I'm going to need you to do us a favor."

I don't get how people honestly think Trump is Putin's bitch. Trump is a malignant narcissist and impossible to be "handled". He'll throw anyone and everyone under the buss and had no problem escalating with Russia. The thing is that Trump like his base simply don't give a shit about any Slavic people, even if they're married to one. The republicans are simply not susceptible to the "justice and democracy" nonsense the liberals are selling. So Trump does whatever serves Trump and he had no problem arming the worse of the far right elements in Ukraine:

From this

Manafort duly resigned, and the RussiaGate racket erupted–a connivance that went some way to ensuring the “pro-Ukrainian agenda in American foreign policy” wasn’t compromised one iota.

Indeed, Trump’s term in office was typified by ever-escalating hostility between Washington and Moscow, the Oval Office resident going to dangerous lengths his predecessor had consistently refrained from to arm and galvanize the most reactionary and violent elements of the Ukrainian armed forces, including the notorious Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, and tear up Cold War arms control treaties, much to Moscow’s chagrin.

They could have a cage fight to work it out. I know who my money is on.