{"id":35327,"date":"2025-03-07T11:58:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T11:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/07\/pro-ukraine-gop-rep-bacon-declares-real-republicans-know-that-putins-russia-hates-the-west-and-freedom\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T11:58:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T11:58:55","slug":"pro-ukraine-gop-rep-bacon-declares-real-republicans-know-that-putins-russia-hates-the-west-and-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/07\/pro-ukraine-gop-rep-bacon-declares-real-republicans-know-that-putins-russia-hates-the-west-and-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Ukraine GOP Rep. Bacon declares &#8216;real Republicans know that Putin\u2019s Russia hates the West and freedom&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/person\/b\/don-bacon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Don Bacon<\/a>, R-Neb., who is a staunch supporter of Ukraine and critic of Russia, declared in a post on X that &#8220;real Republicans know that Putin\u2019s Russia hates the West and freedom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We also know that Ukraine wants democracy, free markets and rule of law. We stand with right vs evil. Reagan, Churchill, Eisenhower\u2026 that is our legacy. I won\u2019t walk away from it,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. has provided significant aid to the Eastern European nation over the last few years since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/world-regions\/russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moscow invaded<\/a> its neighbor, sparking the Russia-Ukraine war.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/scoop-gop-ukraine-supporters-alarmed-after-explosive-trump-zelenskyy-meeting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SCOOP: GOP UKRAINE SUPPORTERS ALARMED AFTER EXPLOSIVE TRUMP, ZELENSKYY MEETING<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bacon asserted on CSPAN&#8217;s &#8220;Washington Journal&#8221; that it is in America&#8217;s &#8220;national security interest for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/conflicts\/ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine to win,&#8221;<\/a> warning that a Russian victory would cause the U.S. to spend &#8220;a lot more money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The congressman has expressed support for helping to arm Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-pauses-aid-ukraine-fiery-meeting-zelenskyy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TRUMP PAUSES AID TO UKRAINE AFTER FIERY MEETING WITH ZELENSKYY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. has &#8220;no troops in Ukraine and no one is advocating for that. We want to arm Ukraine so they can defeat this Putin invasion,&#8221; he said on X.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What happens if Ukraine falls? Do you think it ends there? China is watching how we handle this too. I\u2019m for helping Ukraine win,&#8221; he noted in another post. &#8220;They are fighting for their freedom just like we have in our history. I\u2019m for a just peace, not surrender nor slavery,&#8221; Bacon declared in another tweet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/secretary-state-rubio-vows-diplomacy-attempts-continue-effort-end-russias-war-ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SECRETARY OF STATE RUBIO VOWS DIPLOMACY ATTEMPTS WILL CONTINUE IN EFFORT TO END RUSSIA&#8217;S WAR IN UKRAINE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/download\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After someone on the platform asked Bacon approximately how much it would cost to oust Russia from Ukraine, the lawmaker replied, &#8220;Read Clausewitz. It\u2019s changing the will of the adversary. Hard to measure. But being weak strengthens the adversaries&#8217; will. It\u2019s more about good vs evil and being on [the] right side of history.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., who is a staunch supporter of Ukraine and critic of Russia, declared in a post on X that &#8220;real Republicans know that Putin\u2019s Russia hates the West and freedom.&#8221; &#8220;We also know that Ukraine wants democracy, free markets and rule of law. We stand with right vs evil. Reagan, Churchill, Eisenhower\u2026 &#8230; <a title=\"Pro-Ukraine GOP Rep. Bacon declares &#8216;real Republicans know that Putin\u2019s Russia hates the West and freedom&#8217;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/07\/pro-ukraine-gop-rep-bacon-declares-real-republicans-know-that-putins-russia-hates-the-west-and-freedom\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Pro-Ukraine GOP Rep. Bacon declares &#8216;real Republicans know that Putin\u2019s Russia hates the West and freedom&#8217;\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}