Zelenskyy’s visit to Pennsylvania weapons factory upsets speaker as Trump continues attacks on Ukrainian president

The US House speaker, Mike Johnson, has demanded that Ukraine fire its ambassador to Washington as the feud between Donald Trump and Volodymr Zelenskyy escalated and Republicans accused the Ukrainian leader of election interference.

In a public letter, Johnson demanded that Zelenskyy fire the Ukrainian ambassador, Oksana Markarova, over a visit to a munitions factory in Scranton, Pennsylvania, last week where the Ukrainian president thanked workers for providing desperately needed shells to his outgunned forces.

Johnson complained that Markarova had organised the visit to the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant as a “partisan campaign event designed to help Democrats”. The event was attended by the Pennsylvania governor, Josh Shapiro, a Democrat who has campaigned in support of Kamala Harris.

  • @mineralfellow
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    522 hours ago

    The documentary “The Family” offers the explanation that Russia has a strong traditional family values contingent that appeals to the right-wing idealogy.

    • @takeda
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      819 hours ago

      this guy and family values???

      In 20s we had Jews, now this position was taken by gays and trans. Fascists always need an enemy to rile up others.

      • @[email protected]
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        1219 hours ago

        Well they’re voting for a rapist who cheated on all of his 4 wifes, in case you still thought they actually cared for family values.

      • @mineralfellow
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        115 hours ago

        Yes, because “family values” means anti gay and anti abortion.

    • The Snark Urge
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      920 hours ago

      And here I was thinking the source of their appeal was all the political corruption and fascistic tendencies