Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville says Ukraine CANNOT win the war because they are a ‘junior high team playing against a college team’

Senator Tommy Tuberville said Monday he didn’t think Ukraine could ever win the war against Russia.

“At the end of the day, it’s a junior high team playing against a college team,” the Alaska Republican told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham Monday night.

“They can’t win. We can spend as much money as we want, but unless we send NATO and our troops, which we’re not going to do, if I have anything to do with it, there’s no chance.”

That’s why Tuberville said he has not supported a single dollar going to the Eastern European nation.

“I didn’t vote for a dime to send Ukraine,” Tuberville told Ingraham. ‘I am for Ukraine. Russia should never have done this. I was in Ukraine with President (Volodymyr) Zelensky for three months before this started. Up to that point they were already fighting.’

The senator’s comments come as a funding battle rages between Congress and President Biden, as the White House prepares to ask for billions more to be sent to Ukraine.

It’s also because Tuberville has remained steadfast in preventing Pentagon promotions from continuing with the Defense Department’s policy of financially assisting military personnel if they must leave the state to have an abortion.

So far, the senator has stood in the way of some 300 promotions that must be ratified by the senate.

The White House is expected to formally ask Congress for potentially more than $10 billion in additional military and humanitarian aid for the country amid Ukraine’s lackluster counter-offensive and Russia’s continued bombing of the country.

Ukrainian aid workers clear debris from an abandoned building that once housed the headquarters of the Security Services of Ukraine (SBU) after it was hit by a Russian missile at night on July 29, 2020 in Dnipro, eastern Ukraine.

In this photo from a video released by the press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense on Tuesday, August 8, 2023, a Russian howitzer fires at Ukrainian positions in an undisclosed location

A final number has not yet been finalized, and moving additional funding will be an uphill battle in the divided Congress. The US has already provided more than $60 billion for the war.

Last month, some 70 House Republicans voted to scrap Ukraine’s funding from its annual defense spending bill — the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has said he has no plans to include additional defense spending beyond the $886 billion defense cap agreed to in the debt limit deal he negotiated with Biden.

Tuberville’s comments came in response to a CNN poll that found 55 percent of Americans don’t think Congress should approve more money for Ukraine. As many as 8 in 10 Americans said they worry that the war will go on for a long time without resolution.

Since the start of the war in February 2021, more than 62,000 people have lost their lives and some 17 million people have been displaced from their homes.