Senator Won't Vote to Add Finland, Sweden to NATO
Pro-insurrectionist Josh Hawley turns his attention to foreign policy
What's a far-right Republican senator to do after he's already publicly attempted to bring down his own government?
Side with trying to bring down not one — but two — overseas ones.
Josh Hawley, the Missouri Republican who became instantly for giving extremist supporters of Donald Trump a raised fist in solidarity the morning of January 6, 2021, right before those extremists would storm the US Capitol in a violent attempt to stop the legal and legitimate certification of Joe Biden as the next president of the United States, said Monday that he would refuse to vote to allow Finland and Sweden to join NATO in defense against Russia.
Hawley announced his decision in a tweet along with an article on a right-wing website.
NATO has put the applications of Finland and Sweden to join the alliance on an historic fast track given Russian leader Vladimir Putin's bloody incursion into his sovereign and democratic neighbor of Ukraine.
The governments of current NATO membership must concur for the two nations to join the alliance, and in the United States, that means that the US Senate must approve.
While there is no immediate threat against either Finland or Sweden, Putin's bloody and expansionist ambitions have left his neighbors concerned and seeking the additional security shield which NATO membership would offer.
This is what Hawley's vote would deprive these nations of, if somehow enough other Republican lawmakers joined him in opposition.
Hawley has seen himself a bit of a national laughingstock recently, as the House select committee investigating the events surrounding the January 6 insurrection uncovered Capitol Hill security footage clearly showing Hawley trying to make a hasty retreat from the rioting mobs who he, himself, had been egging on only hours earlier.
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