U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann is one of two Tennessee House members to receive an “A” on a new report card from a coalition called Republicans for Ukraine, which has launched a $1 million campaign to help convince other GOP members to continue supporting the country against its 2022 invasion from Russia.
U.S. Rep. Mark Green of Clarksville is the other Republican to score an “A.” U.S. Reps. Tim Burchett of Knoxville, Diana Harshbarger of Kingsport and Andrew Ogles of Columbia all received an “F.” The state’s three other Republicans drew a “B” or “C.”
Republican support for Ukraine has been slipping the longer the war goes on, the more money Democratic President Joe Biden requests for its maintenance and the closer we get to the 2024 presidential election, where the GOP favorite for the nomination, former President Donald Trump, has been lukewarm on his support.
Many supporters of the GOP today weren’t alive during the Cold War, which the U.S. fought against the Russia-dominated Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from the end of World War II to 1991, when the country collapsed. As such, they have little knowledge of the repression, starvation and murder of the people under Soviet rule during the period.
Today, Vladimir Putin, a man as dangerous and powerful as any USSR dictator, leads Russia and is responsible for the naked aggression found in the invasion last year of an innocent country.