“Let’s be clear: [the war in Ukraine] would end tomorrow if Russia just… you know…stopped firing. That’s not speculation — it’s fact," Adam Kinzinger penned in a new substack.
The former GOP Congressman added that Kyiv “has not only survived but is winning” the war.
“Without a navy, it has turned the Black Sea into a graveyard for Russia’s so-called fleet,” he wrote. “Ukrainian ingenuity, courage, and resilience have done what few thought possible: they've held the line against a nuclear-armed aggressor. Russia, with all its manpower and machinery, is being bled dry.”
He believes, “Vladimir Putin insists on continuing [the war],” and the cease-fire “doesn’t require ‘negotiations.’ It requires one thing: Russia to stop its aggression.”
Yet the former Air National Guard Lieutenant Colonel wrote that the Trump administration, “has become Putin’s loudest advocate in the United States. [Trump] refuses to even say that Russia is the aggressor. He can't utter a sentence condemning the illegal invasion of a sovereign democracy.”
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Kinzinger penned, “Let me repeat what should be obvious to every patriotic American: Russia is the enemy. Russia is not a ‘rival.’ It is not a ‘potential partner.’ It is an aggressor that bombs hospitals, targets civilians, kidnaps children, and seeks to erase Ukraine as a nation. Supporting Ukraine isn’t ‘foreign charity.’ It’s defending a front line of freedom, and it’s in our national interest.”
He added, “Even more disturbing is the emerging chorus among Republicans willing to follow Trump off this cliff. Senator Marco Rubio, once a national security hawk, now says the United States might just ‘quit trying’ to help end the war.”
What this ‘quit trying’ phrase means to Kinzinger is lifting sanctions, cutting off Ukraine’s lifeline, and “saving the Russian war machine just when it’s on the brink of breaking.”
“Let that sink in: instead of backing the winning side — the democratic side — Rubio and others are openly floating a policy that would rescue Putin,” he opined.
“Ukraine is winning. Trump wants them to lose. And every American needs to ask why,” Kinzinger wrote. “Because the answer says everything about who he is — and who we must never become.”