Anna Paulina Luna says aid to Ukraine is ‘not our problem’ because it didn’t join NATO
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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) called out President Joe Biden’s administration for stepping up military assistance to Ukraine, saying the crisis in the war-torn nation is “not our problem.”
“I want to remind everyone that Ukraine had an option to join NATO and they didn’t,” Luna told Steve Bannon on Real America’s Voice on Tuesday. “So they want to get housing insurance essentially after their house flooded and that’s not our problem. We don’t represent Ukraine, we represent the United States.”
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Luna, now entering her sixth month in Congress, said the Biden administration is causing the United States to “hemorrhage money to give it to Ukraine” adding she’s unsure Ukraine “would have the military capabilities to actually take on Russia” if America was not involved.
“They are also saying that they want F-35s and if that isn’t crazy enough, they’re saying that after Russia leaves Crimea, which is where their head is at, they’re going to potentially privatize and create a mercenary army similar to the Wagner Group,” Luna said,
Luna took a trip to meet with representatives from Ukraine’s parliament in Poland in May, along with four other Republicans and two Democrats, where she reported that Ukraine demanded help in the war against Russia in the form of payments and fighter jets.
Luna said she co-sponsored, along with Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Rep. Sara Jacobs’s (D-CA) amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act to stop the transfer of cluster munitions.
Biden announced last Friday the United States will send cluster munitions to Ukraine, part of an $800 million package of military aid.
Lawmakers in both parties have spoken against the Biden administration’s plan to transfer cluster munitions to Ukraine to help fight against Russia’s invasion.
The announcement came prior to Biden’s meeting with NATO leaders in Vilnius, Lithuania, on Tuesday, marking the start of a two-day summit.
Biden, on Tuesday at the summit, said he agreed to proposed language for Ukraine’s prospective ability to join NATO.
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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy tweeted that Ukraine will be represented at the summit and emphasized that “this wording is about the invitation to become a NATO member, not about Ukraine’s membership.”
Ukraine has long pursued NATO membership, applying in September 2022, months after Russia invaded the country at the beginning of the year