Adam Kinzinger Clowns On Putin For Being Totally Incompetent

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Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) is among those in power who are clear-eyed about who’s on the “right side of history” amid the unfolding war between Ukraine and Russia — something that should not be as difficult to grasp as it is for some Republicans. In posts on Twitter from this weekend, Kinzinger tore into Fox host Tucker Carlson — one of the main voices on the Right that’s propped up Putin — and Russian leadership amid expanding strategic setbacks for the Russian military. These Russian losses, including the deaths of eight generals and the sinking of the Moskva warship, haven’t meant the carnage inflicted on Ukrainian civilians has somehow been wiped away — but the Ukrainian defense is resolute.

In one post, Kinzinger shared a video showcasing the Ukrainian flag and jokingly captioned it, “For my pal [Tucker Carlson].” In another video that Kinzinger put up, the Ukrainian flag can be seen beamed onto the side of the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C. — embassy staff evidently attempted to use a spotlight to make the light show invisible, but those responsible for the flag simply moved it as the spotlight moved, keeping the image viewable. Kinzinger called the video “the best thing I’ve seen in a while.” And in the caption for yet another video evidently taken from inside the Ukrainian defense, Kinzinger wrote: “Just [retweeting] this to ruin [J.D. Vance] and [Tucker Carlson’s] Saturday morning. Slava Ukraine.” Vance is a Trump-endorsed Republican U.S. Senate contender in Ohio who once stated that he doesn’t “really care what happens to Ukraine one way or the other.” Kinzinger had even more trolling targeting Carlson, remarking on a bizarre, shirtless man-filled clip promoting a Tucker Carlson-backed documentary called “The End of Men”: “This is actually real. Evidently he likes men without shirts, which may explain the Putin obsession.”

Kinzinger also targeted Russian leadership over their losses. Replying to a post from the Ukrainian defense minister stating, in part, that Russian personnel should “Follow the moskva… or be smart and go home. And wait for an invitation for a free trip to the Hague,” the Illinois Republican chimed in: “I love that song and this tweet.” In a follow-up weekend post, Kinzinger shared a meme mockingly stating: “Russian generals be like… guess I’ll die.” Check out some of Kinzinger’s tweets from this weekend below:

Ukrainians successfully held back Russian forces from taking the capital, Kyiv, although fighting is continuing around the country, including in the long-besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol. Russian leadership claimed Ukraine struck a location inside Russia, but an intercepted phone conversation between a deployed Russian soldier and his wife featured that soldier stating rather unequivocally that it was Putin’s own forces who hit that Russian location. After the soldier’s wife brought up the incident in the Russian town of Klimovo that apparently wounded a little over half a dozen people, the soldier stated: “That was ours fucking stuff up… It’s necessary. They do that to provoke the [Ukrainians]. And that’s why they hit it… We talked to the bosses and they said that’s how it is. The same shit was happening in the Chechen War, they blew up apartments in Moscow, as if it were terrorists. It was really the FSB.” The FSB is a Russian government security agency also known as the Federal Security Service.