Republican Congressman Don Bacon told Drone Summit 2026 today that support for Baltic allies and Ukraine is strongly bipartisan in Congress, and that the current moment is a Churchill or Chamberlain choice.
Speaking in Riga, Bacon, a retired US Air Force brigadier general who represents Nebraska’s 2nd congressional district and sits on the House Armed Services Committee, opened by addressing concerns about US commitment to its allies directly. “Support for Latvia, but also their neighbors, is broadly and very strongly bipartisan. Congress stands with our Baltic allies. We also stand with our European friends and NATO,” he said, adding that a vote on sending further aid to Ukraine and toughening sanctions on Russia was due the following week.
Bacon spoke warmly of the Baltic states, drawing on their history of Soviet occupation. “These three countries are a bright beacon of freedom in the world. I think it inspires countries all over that they too can take the path of democracy and thrive,” he said, describing how Latvia in 1991 “rapidly pulled that band aid off and embraced democracy, free markets, rule of law.”
On Russia’s war in Ukraine, Bacon was unambiguous. “This fight in Ukraine is about good versus evil, a dictator versus a representative government, a government that wants to have rule of law and freedom, and countries are trying to take it away. It’s our national security interests that Russia fail.” He warned that Russian success would not stop at Ukraine’s borders. “If they succeed, Moldova will be next, and we know that they’re going to threaten the Baltics right here,” he said.
Bacon praised Ukraine’s battlefield innovation at length, noting the country is outnumbered four to one. “Ukraine had to innovate if they wanted to save their independence, their language, their culture, their history from Russian domination, and they’ve been extraordinarily effective. What they’re doing on the battlefield is incredible. They’re launching 10,000 drones a day, about 1,000 Russians are being killed or wounded a day, 900 of them from these drones, and they can do it with $5,000 drones.”
He argued the United States must adapt its own approach accordingly. “America has to figure out how to embrace this. We’re used to flying F-35s, Patriots, high-end expensive weapons, and we’ve got to learn how to adapt and also have these low-cost effective weapons,” he said, commending Latvia for positioning itself as a NATO leader on drone and counter-drone technology.
Bacon closed with a direct historical parallel. “This is our Winston Churchill or Neville Chamberlain moment, fighting for freedom or appeasing a dictator. I know where I stand. May God help us be the Churchills of today for freedom. If not, Russia and China will throw that away, and we’re going to live in a much more dangerous world.”
Bacon has been a member of the House Armed Services Committee since taking office in 2017 and has previously described certain approaches to adversaries as appeasement, consistently calling for a stronger and more robust Western posture toward Russia and China.
Best get rid of the fascist surrender-monkey traitor in the Whitehouse then.
Agree, it’s disgusting that guys like this can enable Trump then still have the brass neck to come to Europe and claim there is bi partisan support for Ukraine and NATO.
He should be called out on this along with all Republicans.
Spot on Jim these pathetic mixed messages do no one any good, including a rapidly decaying image of the US itself and thus its own safety. Where are these Republicans at home, all this is going to do is set the scene for a Russian mis-step by Russia (or others) that as in their duster in a Ukraine becomes something they can get out of and thus lead us to potential WW3. Only Trump’s weakness and feeble behaviours if his Republican accolytes allows Putin to continue in this or future mis-adventures. Indeed sadly we now have two deluded mis adventurists in charge, neither of whom want to look weak but to others are woefully so and thus, threats, double downing on failure and bully boy tactics multiply, not a great recipe for the World.
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A Republican not afraid to counter the Trump narrative. There is hope and I’ll follow the imminent votes in Congress which have been long in coming to fruition.
He is about to stand down and won’t be running in the mid term elections and he has still supported most of Trumps agenda. He has enabled Trump just as much as any Republican in Congress despite his supportive words for Ukraine.
We should not pretend that there is any branch of the Republican Party that has any time for Ukraine, NATO or Europe.
That party sees NATO as nothing more than a tool for US foreign policy in supplementing US military power.
Again spot on Jim. Look what’s happened to Massie for daring to encourage release of the Epstein files de-selected despite supposed superficial Republican support for it and even he apart from Epstein predominantly supported Trumps dodgy deeds. There’s going to be a war of the minnows when Trump finally goes and how that will turn out is anyone’s guess. But meanwhile words from feeble disingenuous acolytes like this one are not to be taken with any substance at all, it’s all merely on the whim of his Master in the Mad House. Thankfully the World is acting on what’s close to the worst case scenario where he is concerned.
I still hold out hope that some Republicans are growing a pair.
What I struggle with is that the checks and balances supposedly built into the US constitution have, so far, failed to curb Trump’s megalomaniac excesses. Apparently because successive generations of Congress have surrendered authority to the Executive.
it’s actually evil vs evil, but in this case the moral right is with russia, see ‘nsarchive, what gorbachev heard’, the west has reneged on its assurances nato would be allowed to spread eastwards
clearly this bloke is to young to remember when the USA threatened the world with nuclear armageddon to prevent the warsaw pact from spreading into a third country
Russian shill.
ahh yes, the russian shill trope, tell me, have you ever had a single original thought in your head, just one will do ?
You literally are shilling for Russia. What Gorbachev said has changed according to him several times, and even so verbal comment by an administration about foreign nations with their own agendas and goals is hardly legally binding.
And Ukraine isn’t in NATO, nor was in the process of joining NATO. Russia invaded because a more *Pro-EU* regimine came into power in 2014. So neither NATO nor the US had anything to do with that.
Also “When the USA threatened the world with nuclear armageddon to prevent the warsaw pacrt from spreading into a third country.” Wow, how much *did* the Krelmin pay for that bit of revisionism? Assuming you are referring to the Cuban Missile Crisis, the US did not do any such thing. First of all Cuba was already Soviet aligned when the crisis happened. Secondly there was never any question of Cuba joining the Warsaw pact. Thirdly what percipitated the crisis was Kruschkev placing Nuclear IRBM’s in Cuba in order to appease the Breshnev faction and enabling a decapitation strike on Washington, not the idea of Cuba becoming in anyway pro-communist.
Don’t be silly, it’s largely irrelevant what Gorbachev says was said, it only really màtters what actually was sàid, the record of which is best laid out in the research I refer you to, anything that has happened subsequently can only be understood in the context of those documents, legally enforceable or not
Do you understand now ?
So no comment on getting called out on Cuba or Ukraine, just winging because the “No NATO expansion” isn’t reliant on Gorbachev’s account even though it was a verbal comment made to him and he’s inconsistent about what the assurance actually was.
But please: Do show me any signed treaty between any NATO party and the *Russian Federation* that states NATO won’t expand eastwards.
Signed. Treaty. Not hearsay verbal promises that even the then head of state can’t be consistent about my little Kremlin stooge.
Again, the research is what was said to everybody, not just Gorbachev, as for Cuba, it was a third country the Warsaw pact was trying to place weapons on and the US made it clear they would resist militarily, they went to nuclear alerts, the highest state ever recorded outside actual nuclear war, your comments are just blather
Do you understand now ?
And what Gorbachev, the head of state who agreed to the Unification of Germany, says was agreed is what is important.
So you admit you where delierately misrepresenting the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Thanks for demonstrating that you are a paid Kremlin Troll.
We all understand what you are very clearly.
No, it’s not important, this process went on over years, it only needs to have been said once for it to be true, in fact the research shows it was said many times, and it’s clear, the actions of the USA during the Cuban missile crisis did bring the world to the brink of nuclear Armageddon
Do you understand now ?
Yawn. Learn to get a better sign off Russian Stooge.
Thanks for playing and proving what you are.
For other readers, please take note of how I answer every one of this paid Russian trolls point comprehensively but it avoids discussing anything that goes off it’s Kremlin provided script.
@dern learn to think
Do you understand now ?
@Russian Stooge.
Get better come backs.
Oh no, not the ‘russian stooge,’ trope, have you ever had an original thought in your head, just one ?
Wow it really took you two whole days to get that response approved by your handlers? At least I have thoughts that aren’t straight off a Kremlin script.
Hint: If you don’t want to be called a Russian Stooge. Don’t be one.
Didn’t think so, but don’t worry, your not alone, there are plenty more where you can from
“Didn’t think” it’s clear you didn’t.
Thinkings clearly so hard that you can’t even use the Reply button properly Vatnik.
Btw, sentences end in a .
bored with you now, and yes, I know you’ve heard that before
Run back to your handler in Moscow then, I guess the script has run out.
Bold of you to admit that you are too stupid to learn basic grammar too…
Didn’t think so, but don’t worry, your not alone, there are plenty more where you can from