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Who the fuck is Baumgartner?
I am assuming some corrupt American?
Yeah. This could probably go in an "US Politics" community for this ultra niche US stuff.
Nobody knows who TF this guy is so his opinion is pretty irrelevant on the world stage, and pretty low quality 'news' to begin with.
Republican Congressman from E. WA state. Yes, a corrupt American, one of the majority in the corrupt Congress. https://baumgartner.house.gov/about
What a fucking idiot. Some degenerate from what seems like provincial Washington state is making calls about the leadership of Ukraine?
We should send his family to Pokrovsk (a key frontline town in Donetsk oblast) to do logistics volunteer work.
Hell, they can even come to my apartment in Kyiv. While it's safe here, I have a feeling they are not going to enjoy daily shahed OWA strike warnings that happen in and around midnight or regular getting ballistic strike warnings at 4 am (and hearing takedowns of said shaheds and ballistic missiles during the night). Or seeing that the building down the street recently got hit my debris from a shahed takedown.
Washington State is where Seattle is, a city that's bigger than Washington D.C., Las Vegas, Boston, Atlanta...
The problem is that the eastern part of the state (where this guy is from) is basically western Idaho.