This is an opinion cartoon.

There’s only one word a goober needs to vote against aid for Ukraine: “NYET.”

The Russian word for “no” should roll naturally off the tongues of Alabama Putin finger puppet congressmen Jerry Carl, Barry Moore, Gary Palmer and Dale Strong. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, the former football coach who regularly spouts Trumpy disdain for Ukraine while licking up to the Russian war criminal, is ‘one for the thumb.’

Tuberville voted against a similar bipartisan Ukraine aid bill in February – as did Sen. Katie Britt. This time, Britt voted in favor of the bill while Tuberville chose not to vote at all.

Tuesday’s bill passed, 79-18, and is being sent to President Biden’s desk.

Related: Cameron Smith: Speaker Johnson understands Zelenskyy as a modern day Benjamin Franklin – al.com

Conservative AL.com columnist Cameron Smith makes some historically interesting points in his opinion piece, comparing Ukraine President Zelensky to Benjamin Franklin. Here are a few excerpts:

“I regard myself as a Reagan Republican. I understand the concept of maintaining peace through strength,” said Speaker Mike Johnson. In any other era, a Republican who supported the independence of a former Soviet state against the resurgence of the U.S.S.R would be hailed as a hero. Today, he’s not sure if he’ll even keep his job. History suggests that Johnson understands American DNA in a way his detractors do not.

Related: Tommy Tuberville is just another Putin propaganda parrot – al.com

Johnson understands the principle. He’s willing to lose one of the most powerful positions in American politics because of his willingness to support American interests abroad. Republicans need more leaders like him who aren’t swayed by the fevered threats of a vocal minority.

Too many of my Republican brethren cast aspersions on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for coming hat-in-hand to Congress for help in defending his country. We should remember that Benjamin Franklin did it first, and we’re free Americans because of it.

Read all of Cameron Smith’s column here.

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JD Crowe is the cartoonist for Alabama Media Group and AL.com. He won the RFK Human Rights Award for Editorial Cartoons in 2020. In 2018, he was awarded the Rex Babin Memorial Award for local and state cartoons by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Follow JD on Facebook, Twitter @Crowejam and Instagram @JDCrowepix. Give him a holler @[email protected].

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