Ernst calls on Biden to be 'very clear and very strong' in call with Putin as US concerns grow over

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Source: CNN

Washington (CNN)Republican Sen. Joni Ernst on Sunday urged President Joe Biden to be "very clear and very strong" in his upcoming call with Russian President Vladimir Putin as US officials grow increasingly concerned about a possible invasion of Ukraine by Russia.

"I do think that President Biden needs to be very clear and very strong in his message to Vladimir Putin," the Iowa Republican told Fox News Sunday. "He needs to say to Vladimir Putin that we are no longer going to allow you to continue with the Nord Stream 2 pipeline and we need you to know and understand that we will defend Ukraine and we will provide them assistance. He needs to make that very clear," Ernst said, referring to the controversial new pipeline built to move natural gas from Russia to Germany.

A member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Ernst stressed the need for Biden to push back against what she called "a very aggressive action" by Russia after reports of an increased Russian military presence at the Russia-Ukraine border suggested Russia could launch a military attack on Ukraine early next year.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/05/politics/ukraine-biden-putin-call-joni-ernst-chris-murphy/index.html

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Also, if you have the time there is a CNN video interview with the Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S. embedded in the article. It's just over 15 minutes.

[Skittles]

1. fuck Ernst

who gives a FUCKwhat Jodi Fucking ERNST thinks

as if Biden WOULDN'T be clear and strong with Putin....HE'S NOT DONALD FUCKING TRUMP

[PatSeg]

22. That was my reaction as well

Like Biden was just sitting in the Oval Office waiting for advice from Joni! Just an opportunity for her to get her name in the news. Such obvious self-promotion while implying the President is weak.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

23. That is who told her to say that...

... reading the headline, that was my first thought. "Trump called her and gave her some, "advice".

[dchill]

2. Gosh, Joni, what ever would Joe do without your advice?

[WHITT]

3. At Helsinki

Donnie said he trusted Putin over the U.S. intelligence community.

Joni said: *CRICKETS*

[roody]

4. Ernst said something.

How is this "news"?

[ancianita]

12. Thank you!

[BlueMTexpat]

13. Thank you No 2!

[Sherman A1]

14. Precisely

[stopdiggin]

21. exactly

1) the message from the WH (and State) already IS very, very clear. Has been since the start of the administration. So - thanks, Joni.

and 2) Joni Ernst is a vacuous nobody, that has virtually nothing that the rest of the world needs to hear. The end.

[DENVERPOPS]

5. I wonder

what Joni will say when it is finally released that Trump and her Fellow Republican Senators have been selling out the U.S. to Putin for years and years........

[turbinetree]

6. Hey Ernst did you call on that former POS president in your party to be clear and strong....

prior to the Helsinki trip.....didn't hear one peep out of your gaslighting mouth....after your "guy" did this.....

again how did you get re-elected....

[madaboutharry]

7. No one should care what that dumbass has to say.

She is a fraud. She has always tried to sell herself as a centrist and bipartisan, which is pathetic. She spend the entirety of the Trump presidency kissing his fat ass.

[dalton99a]

8. Because Vladimir Putin is extremely strong and powerful

[BaronChocula]

9. Trump Humping Useful Idiot Gives Biden Advice On How To Be Tough With Putin n/t

[TeamProg]

10. NO ONE ASKED HER. FUCK HER AND HER ILLNESS.

[ZZenith]

11. HEY, NATIONAL "NEWS" MEDIA!!!

WE’RE ONTO YOUR SCHTICK AND WE AIN’T BUYING IT!

What a pathetic attempt to make Republicans appear effectual after four years of TFG & co. slurping on Putin’s knob with nary a fucking PEEP from you assholes. You’re methodically relegating yourselves into irrelevance. Who’s going to pay your salaries when there’s nobody left listening to you?

[ouija]

15. Is Russia bad again?

[ZZenith]

29. Is your snark directed at me or the news media?

[texasfiddler]

16. Republicans in disarray!

[bucolic_frolic]

17. She's the leading edge of the setup

GQP press releases denouncing the outcome cranked up and ready to roll before the meeting takes place.

[George II]

18. The only useful advice she can give to anyone is how to castrate a pig.

[2Gingersnaps]

30. And yet she was utterly feckless with the orange one.

[NCjack]

19. Pres. Biden should stuff the Trump-Putin private meetings transcripts down her throat.

[johnnyfins]

20. She's a fraud

Another one whose 2020 election results should be given a second look. Who gives a rat's ass what she thinks about anything. Go castrate a pig, Joni...

[llashram]

24. All I know

is Putin has been quoted saying there is no such thing as a former KGB agent. TFG found that out time and again to our chagrin. Now because of his being a totally compromised POTUS and the fascists running our government at that time we face this. China is in this potential maelstrom also.

[Javaman]

25. now she's all about advice and how to run the world.

where was this...I won't say it...when the orange asshole was in power?

fuck her. she is despicable.

[3825-87867]

26. If you rearrange the letters in Joni's last name

you get a sort of reply that Anthony Clement "Nuts" McAuliffe of Battle of the Bulge fame replied to the Nazis.

Nerts!

[BlueIdaho]

27. I suspect

The President needs zero advice from that pandering little fascist.

[Midnight Writer]

28. I'll always remember Donnie walking out of his meeting with Putin cringing like a whipped puppy.

I was very disappointed I didn't see that sequence in campaign ads.

[mahina]

31. That's enough out of you Joni.

Enough from the peanut gallery.

I’m surprised she isn’t advocating for kissing Pooti’s patootie like her golden ox.