Call us crazy but would gun control liberals in the United States still find it necessary to confiscate guns if we were under attack?
Sad to say, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appears to understand the U.S. Constitution far better than stateside liberals. He announced on Thursday that his government would give weapons to anyone who wanted to defend the country from the full-scale Russian invasion.
“A Well-Regulated Militia…”
Ring a bell?
[source: The Daily Wire]
Zelensky informed his citizens of their new-found right to defend against tyrannical governments via a pair of statements on Twitter:
We will give weapons to anyone who wants to defend the country. Be ready to support Ukraine in the squares of our cities.
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) February 24, 2022
We will lift sanctions on all citizens of Ukraine who are ready to defend our country as part of territorial defense with weapons in hands.
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) February 24, 2022
During the invasion Putin urged Ukrainian soldiers to give up their weapons and surrender to Russian forces, warning US and NATO forces that, “Russia will respond immediately, and you will have consequences that you never have had before in your history.”
President Vladimir Putin announcement. pic.twitter.com/ELQzzhn3if
— Graham (@HubGraham) February 24, 2022
The initial wave of Russian attacks against Ukraine targeted military and government facilities, airfields, and installations along the border and large explosions were seen in videos posted on social media.
Ukraine said that Belarus, which is aligned with Putin, assisted Russia in attacking Ukraine. A senior Ukrainian official told The Wall Street Journal that hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers died in the initial volley of attacks. That number is likely to quickly rise as Russian ground forces entered Ukraine and Russia has launched attacks against targets in multiple cities, including Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, Ivano-Frankivsk, Mariupol, and others. Zelensky announced that he was imposing martial law “across the entire territory of our state.”
Oil prices skyrocketed to more than $100 per barrel, Dow futures plummeted 800 points, and Bitcoin lost as much as 8.6% of its value following the invasion. A top Russian official responded to relatively weak sanctions from Joe Biden against Russia by effectively saying that Americans would feel the repercussions of the sanctions because Russia would raise the cost of gas.
The Biden-Harris administration has come to wildly different conclusions about the Russian sanctions, with Biden claiming they were never meant as a deterrent to invade and Kamala vowing the opposite.
The only people affected by the demise in diplomatic and military relations are the average, ordinary citizen of Ukraine, Russia, and the United States, all of whom struggle under the regimes of which they live under.
Author: Nolan Sheridan
