Two new statements, one from House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and the other from President Donald Trump, sum up the U.S. government’s take on Russian President Vladimir Putin and his continuing attacks against Ukraine.
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First, here’s Johnson, talking to reporters on Wednesday:
Vladimir Putin has shown an unwillingness to be reasonable and to talk seriously about brokering a peace, and I think we have to send him a message — that’s my view.
And on Tuesday, Trump was even more to the point:
We get a lot of b******t thrown at us by Putin … He’s very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.
Russia fired a record 728 drones at Ukraine overnight, along with 13 cruise and ballistic missiles, the Ukrainian air force said Wednesday. The city of Lutsk, which lies along Ukraine’s border with Poland and Belarus, was the hardest hit, although 10 other regions were