The Daily Beast reports:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. debated Fox News host Sean Hannity during a town hall event Tuesday about the United States’ role in the Russia-Ukraine war, with the 2024 presidential candidate claiming that the U.S. had been “pushing” Ukraine into the war.
Kennedy Jr. claimed that the expansion of NATO after the fall of the Soviet Union was an example of the U.S. deliberately bringing out the conditions that ultimately led to the war.
Kennedy Jr., whose candidacy has been praised by a who’s who of right-wing provocateurs like Tucker Carlson, Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn and Charlie Kirk, dismissed the idea that Russia would lose the war it started. “It would be like us losing a war to Mexico,” he said. “They are not going to lose the war.”
Mediaite reports:
“In 2019, France, Germany, and Russia all agreed to the Minsk accords,” Kennedy said. “That year Zelensky ran for president. He was a comedian. He had no political experience. Why did he win? because he ran on one issue: signing the Minsk accords.”
Kennedy went on to say that “as soon as Zelensky” took office, State Department diplomat Victoria Nuland nixed Zelensky’s pledge.
However, Zelensky took office in May 2019. Nuland was a private citizen at the time and did not begin working for the Biden State Department until May 2021. “We don’t want peace,” Kennedy added. “We want the war with Russia. A substantial portion of the audience cheered at that point.
RFK Jr: Russia is not going to lose this war. It would be like us losing a war to Mexico. They are not going to lose the war. Look at what Russia did in Stalingrad in order to preserve its territorial integrity. pic.twitter.com/9kGjhjw2o8
— Acyn (@Acyn) July 26, 2023