Apologies to the Mods for leaving the full clip intact in original post. It seemed appropriate to leave it complete as he was answering the direct question “Do you believe in continuing support for Ukraine”. Being a U.S. presidential candidate, what he says matters. Updated one here is much more concise and on topic. This video is incredibly important to remember why we should not only continue support for Ukraine but increase it.

Updated clip of Christ Christie’s reasons to continue support for Ukraine. (Mods locked original as first part strayed into off topic areas)
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by jaxsd75

10 comments

  1. His name is Chris, not Christ. Not sure if that can be modified though.

  2. I like this guy, he is telling how it is. The US need to keep their promise to help Ukraine,

    So far they did, but more help is needed, not just by the US, but the collective ‘west’ need to provide much more than we have done to date. Give Ukraine the means to defeat Ruzzia.

    Fuck Ruzzia’s escalation/nuclear scare tactics, just send Ukraine everything they ask for, period.

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    Ruzzia shall NOT win this!

    Slava Ukraini! ![img](emote|t5_2qqcn|9002) Heroyam Slava!

  4. They didn’t remove the post because it “strayed into off-topic areas.” A lot of posts on this subreddit do that – and those posts usually don’t get removed, if they’re mostly Ukraine-related.

    They removed it “[for being off-topic](https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/17qs06j/chris_christies_very_clear_breakdown_of_why_the/k8ej29d/)” which this one obviously wasn’t.

    IMO you edited it just right in the original version, to deliver all the necessary context to this speech. Because the speech is inherently about how Russia’s war against Ukraine is embedded in a larger global geo-political conflict. A conflict that America, and Western nations as a whole, need to get involved in.

  5. An amazing speech. Reminds me of the good ol days when you could have lots of respect for various politicians on both sides of the political spectrum

  6. I’m American and I don’t feel like we’re keeping our word with respect to defending Ukraine. We are doing the minimum required to make it plausible to claim that we are keeping our word. Call it “Plausible Undeniability”

  7. I don’t like Mike Pence and Chris Christie but they are absolutely right when it concerns helping Ukraine maintain their sovereignty. I guess it’s similar to Boris Johnson in the UK who had a bunch of scandals but was a stalwart supporter of Ukraine when they needed it the most.

  8. I will get downvoted for this but Chris Christie is plain wrong about the promise.

    The Budapest Memorandum says:”(…)prohibited the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States from threatening or using military force or economic coercion against Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan.”

    Meaning that the US promises NOT to attack Ukraine. The UK promises NOT to attack Ukraine etc.

    The Memorandum didn’t mean that the US had to defend Ukraine against other countries. The deal protects Ukraine against the US.

    [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum)

    I am pro-ukraine like any other guy – but I need to mention this. I wonder how he can be so wrong about it.

  9. Former Governor Chris Christie is not a bad guy. He did some unwise stuff but he is moderate as opposed to either extreme. Pretty straight shooter. I know some will disagree but behind the scenes he dropped the hammer on big pharma in NJ.

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