The List: The Top 25 WORST Takes on the Russian-Ukraine War (so far), Ranked [March 7, 2022]
Who knew WWIII would be so dumb?
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The Top 25
25) Patricia Arquette
Offense [deleted]: “Kick Russia Out of NATO”
24) Justin Parmenter
Offense: “The courage of ordinary Ukrainians making Molotov cocktails to protect their fellow country people is so inspiring. Here in this country we can’t even get people to get vaccinated and wear a mask.”
23) Brian Stelter
Offense: “The past 24 hours are a reminder that consumers in an era of YouTube and TikTok still gravitate to trusted, established news outlets during emergencies. They "know where to go," so to speak. And television coverage is essential. cnn.it/3BObe1Y”
22) NPR
Offense: “🧵 Thread: Russia’s attack on Ukraine means there’s a stressful news cycle ahead of us. The reality of conflict is always a shock to the system.
Here are 5 ways to cope.”
21) Benny Johnson
Offense: “Thousands of Ukrainian children will sleep in makeshift shelters tonight because 81 million low information libs did not like a man’s tweets.”
20) Jen Psaki
Offense: “There is a lot of upsetting and challenging news in the world right now, but today there is also huge news to celebrate. We can't wait to see you on the Supreme Court--Judge Kentaji Brown Jackson”
19) Norman Ornstein
Offense: “I am dismayed now that the president did not announce his nominee for the Supreme Court before this. Every bit of news attention for some time to come will be on Ukraine, Russia and our response. Lost the momentum you need from an announcement that captures public attention.”
18) Seth Abramson
Offense: “Putin is shelling Kyiv. I’m an author–not a soldier–so I can only urge folks to borrow the book below from a friend/library or purchase it if you’ve the means to do so. This book was my effort to warn America about the sort of thing we’re seeing on TV now.”
17) CBS News
Offense: “The U.S. economy has been hit with increased gas prices, inflation, and supply-chain issues due to the Ukraine crisis.”
Offense: “Transgender acceptance in Ukraine is not widespread, and changing legal documents to match gender requires a long process with psychiatric examinations. CBS News spoke with one woman in Kyiv who is now battling a "war within a war" amid Russia's invasion cbsn.ws/3JYmqw2”
16) Amanda Winn Lee
Offense: “In one way, Putin did us a favor- historically every president running for reelection during a war has won.”
15) Dana Houle
Offense: “Lot of people in Ukraine crowding together inside.
Only 35% of Ukrainians have been vaccinated. Less than 2% have been boosted.”
14) Garrett M. Graff
Offense: “One thing worth keeping in my mind today: There’s a straight line from Russia’s attack on the US election in 2016 to 1/6 to today’s new invasion of Ukraine. The chaos that Russia unleashed with the election of Trump weakened us to the point Putin feels confident invading Europe.”
13) Dean Obeidallah
Offense: “We watch Putin's horrific attack on the people of Ukraine in horror. Trump and much of his GOP view it as a playbook to wage more Jan 6 attacks in the US to end our democracy.”
12) Lindy Li
Offense: “Putin is invading Ukraine in a fit of megalomania & a desperate bid to stay in power
Trump invaded our Capitol in a fit of megalomania & a desperate bid to stay in power
Two genocidal maniacs who think nothing of slaughtering countless innocents to satisfy their own ambitions”
11) Cenk Uygur
Offense: “Right-wing doesn't love Putin just because he is an authoritarian, tyrannical leader, they love him because he's a WHITE authoritarian leader. Race has become more important than even nationality. They've turned on democracy and now even America, in favor of a white warlord.”
10) MFA Russia
Offense: “❗️We have taken notice of an unprecedented level of Russophobia in several foreign countries in the context of the special military operation in Ukraine.
👉 Rest assured, we are taking note of all these incidents.
9) Tucker Carlson
Offense: “Why do Democrats want you to hate Putin? Has Putin shipped every middle class job in your town to Russia? Did he manufacture a worldwide pandemic that wrecked your business? Is he teaching your kids to embrace racial discrimination? Is he making fentanyl? Does he eat dogs?”
8) Red Eagle Politics
Offense [deleted]: “Putin tripled Russian GDP since the early 1990s. He brought back the prominence of the Orthodox Church. He kept immigration low and the alphabet agenda out of Russia. He also cut abortions in half. How the hell is this guy the enemy? Lmao.”
7) Candace Owens
Offense: “I suggest every American who wants to know what’s *actually* going on in Russia and Ukraine, read this transcript of Putin’s address. As I’ve said for month— NATO (under direction from the United States) is violating previous agreements and expanding eastward. WE are at fault.”
6) Danny Haiphong
Offense: “De-Nazifying Ukraine is a good thing, actually.”
5) Richard Hanania
Offense: “China: "Sanctions have never been a fundamentally effective way to solve problems.”
This is true. A China-led world order would be a more humane one. People who think otherwise are brainwashed by American media to know about China’s crimes but not US ones”
4) Wendy Rogers
Offense: “The West is trying to deplatform and debank Russia. This is just as wrong as invading Ukraine.”
3) Kim Iversen
Offense: “Ukraine shouldn’t fight back. No one should. Let it go.”
2) Pam Keith
Offense: “If Ukraine holds, Putin will nuke them.
If Ukraine falls, he’ll move on to Poland.
If Poland holds, Putin will nuke them.
And on and on and on.
We stop him now or we surrender.”
Offense: “If EVER there was a justification for a preemptive strike, it is right now, against a madman hell bent on destroying the world to appease his ego.
If EVER there was a time to drop a MOAB on a bunker, it’s RIGHT NOW, on Putin’s hidey-hole BEFORE the obliteration of Ukraine.”
1) Sen. Lindsey Graham
Offense: “Is there a Brutus in Russia? Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military?
The only way this ends is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out.
You would be doing your country - and the world - a great service.”
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