Marjorie Taylor Greene Claims Zelensky ‘Wants Our Sons and Daughters to Go Die’

A crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) booed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in absentia on Friday after Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R., Ga.) misleadingly claimed he “wants our sons and daughters to go die in Ukraine.”

Greene’s comments seemingly referred to a viral video in which Zelensky said, “The U.S. will have to send their sons and daughters exactly the same way as we are sending, their sons and daughters to war.”

However, that clip was missing additional context: Zelensky was suggesting that if Ukraine loses the war against Russia, Russia could go on to attack NATO member states. Under the NATO treaty, allies pledge that “an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all.”

Zelensky’s full quote read: “If it happens so that Ukraine, due to various opinions and weakening, depleting of assistance, loses, Russia is going to enter Baltic states, NATO member states, and then the U.S. will have to send their sons and daughters exactly the same way as we are sending, their sons and daughters to war.”