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Jim Risch: “I do not know how you can watch what has happened in Ukraine, the atrocities that have been committed there on a par…”

On the recordMay 15, 2023
I do not know how you can watch what has happened in Ukraine, the atrocities that have been committed there on a par with the kinds of things that happened in World War II and say, well, this is all right because they wanted to join NATO or something like that.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

Editor's note · Context

Risch condemns justifications for Russia's actions in Ukraine.

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