Sen. Ben Sasse said Sunday that President Joe Biden needs to be thinking in terms of military victory by Ukraine, not merely working to slow down the Russian invasion.
“Stop listening to all of your advisers who say Zelenskyy is a dead man walking,” the Nebraska Republican said on “Fox News Sunday” in a reference to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian president who addressed Congress last week in a quest for additional support.
Sasse added: “Stop listening to those who say that Ukraine is inevitably going to lose. We should hear the president’s strategy to help Ukraine win. We should be on the side of these freedom fighters, and we’re too slow in almost every step we take.”
When asked if he was saying the U.S. should go all in with American military support to help defeat the forces of President Vladimir Putin, Sasse said that was not necessary.
“The West has a bunch of fighters in Ukraine and that is the Ukrainians,” he told host Trace Gallagher.
“These 44 million people have been heroic in fighting for values that are universal, but associated around the world with American beliefs and freedom. We don’t need to have fighter pilots in the air, we don’t need to have boots on the ground
inside Ukraine, because Ukrainians have the will to fight. We need to have the will to rearm them constantly,” Sasse said.
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