Rep. Jeffries: Ukraine and Russia Is Not Just About a Territorial Dispute, It’s a ‘Fight Between Truth and Propaganda’

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
MENENDEZ: “So congressman, let’s set some states here. If the house has not been able to pass Ukraine aid, what does that mean then both for Ukraine and for the fight for global democracy?”

Jeffries: “Well the fight between Ukraine and Russia is not just about a territorial dispute, of course, although Russia’s aggressive incursion into Ukraine is a complete violation of international law, but this is a fight between democracy and autocracy, a fight between freedom and tyranny, a fight between truth and propaganda, and Ukraine, the United States of America, the free world should stand on the side of democracy. As what we have been doing in supporting the Ukrainian war effort. If we allow the Ukrainian war effort to falter, which by the way has been very successful, winning 300,000 casualties inflicted on the Russian military, almost 80% of the regular Russian military has been wiped out, with medicine go American life put at risk in terms of Ukraine. And so I think that if we allow Ukraine to falter because we don’t continue our support then we are likely in the fight with Russia because of our NATO—“