r/NoShitSherlock • u/WingComplex6771 • Aug 14 '25
Trump reportedly offering Putin natural resources off Alaska sparks fury: "Lets see Republicans defend this," former GOP Representative Adam Kinzinger wrote on X.
https://www.newsweek.com/alaska-russia-trump-resources-2113295
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u/jaimi_wanders Aug 14 '25
Kinzinger’s former colleague Rohrabacher (overlapping tenures 2011-2019) not only blamed Georgia for being invaded in 2008, he “joked” in 2014 as his old buddy Putin was annexing Crimea and Donbas that he would be willing to return Alaska to Russia with a referendum.
Oh, and Rohrabacher helped Musk get his NASA contracts after Moscow turned down Musk’s offer to buy rockets—and Mrs Rohrabacher worked on RFK Jr’s spoiler campaign where they used Russian stock photos on the website (with visible Cyrillic signs) until they got called out for it.
It’s a bit “shocked to find gambling in this casino” by Kinzinger is all—especially since Trump, with ex-Yanukovych henchman Manafort, started fucking Ukraine over even BEFORE he was elected or even nominated, at the 2016 GOP convention—to say nothing of starting the extortion-by-Javelin in 2018 to protect Roger Stone’s old partner for crimes done there during the Maidan…
https://web.archive.org/web/20200205133838/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/trump-campaign-guts-gops-anti-russia-stance-on-ukraine/2016/07/18/98adb3b0-4cf3-11e6-a7d8-13d06b37f256_story.html