Tommy Tuberville Tries to Argue Putin Has No Interest in Ukraine

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) argued Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin—who ordered the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 while declaring that the country has no claim to independence and that its people are “connected with us by blood”—doesn’t actually want Ukraine because he already has “enough land.”

On far-right podcaster and former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon’s War Room show Wednesday, Tuberville was asked if Russia would agree to a peace deal in which regions of Ukraine that Putin annexed would remain part of Ukraine.

After criticizing President Joe Biden’s diplomatic efforts, Tuberville tried to make the case that there is a lull in armed conflict in Ukraine because Putin has no interest in fighting there.

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