Former Republican Rep. and Air Force veteran Adam Kinzinger is blasting his own party’s narrative on Ukraine, arguing that Russia is far from winning and may be nearing economic collapse three years after launching its invasion. Kinzinger noted that Moscow now occupies less Ukrainian territory than it did in the opening weeks of the war, even after suffering an estimated 1.1 to 1.2 million casualties, a reality he says undercuts claims pushed by Donald Trump and GOP leaders during ongoing peace talks. Comparing Russia’s grinding losses to the U.S. quagmire in Iraq, Kinzinger mocked the idea of inevitable Russian victory, quipping that Putin’s forces are now “the second best army in Ukraine,” and insisting that Ukraine is winning simply by continuing to defend as Russia’s war economy and demographics spiral toward collapse.
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