Ro Khanna: Ukraine Will Be Russia’s Afghanistan
“Concerned about providing lethal aid before the war started,” the Democratic congressman is now more “open” to helping Ukraine.
Democratic progressives, an outsize voice on domestic issues in the United States, were seen as late to the debate on Russia-Ukraine and on how involved Washington should be. But as Ro Khanna, a Democrat representing California’s Silicon Valley, told Foreign Policy on Thursday, that’s not to say they are naive about the threats Russian President Vladimir Putin poses, in Ukraine or elsewhere.
Colm Quinn was a staff writer at Foreign Policy between 2020 and 2022. Twitter: @colmfquinn
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