Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) went viral over the weekend after a clip of him speaking at the Halifax International Security Forum was widely praised for his blazing takedown of the idea that peace in Ukraine should be negotiated by giving concessions to Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
Rounds said in the clip that his take was “my opinion, it’s not the opinion of the administration, it’s not the opinion of the next administration coming in.”
“But for those folks in Ukraine that are fighting against a Russian aggression that we can all see. I just feel so frustrated that we have not been able to provide them all of the equipment that they need and all of the weapon systems that they need in order to respond to absolute tyranny coming from Russia. A neighbor who has absolutely unjustly invaded their country,” said the conservative Republican and close Trump ally, adding:
And it’s been done after …