{"id":1383797,"date":"2022-03-16T10:22:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T14:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1383797"},"modified":"2022-03-16T10:22:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T14:22:36","slug":"zelenskyy-invokes-pearl-harbor-9-11-in-plea-to-us-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/zelenskyy-invokes-pearl-harbor-9-11-in-plea-to-us-lawmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy Invokes Pearl Harbor, 9\/11 In Plea To US Lawmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fzelenskyy-invokes-pearl-harbor-9-11-in-plea-to-us-lawmakers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1383797&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy invoked some of the biggest tragedies in U.S. history as he pleaded to lawmakers for more help Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/15\/joe-biden-signs-government-funding-ukraine-aid-bill\/\">Zelenskyy<\/a> addressed Congress virtually, noting he remains in Kyiv as <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/08\/joe-biden-russia-ukraine-sanctions-no-fly-zone-poll\/\">Russia\u2019s<\/a> invasion of Ukraine continues. The Ukrainian president thanked the U.S. for its support, but said more is needed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemember Pearl Harbor, the terrible\u00a0morning of Dec. 7, 1941,\u00a0when your sky was black from the\u00a0planes attacking you,\u201d Zelenskyy said. \u201cRemember Sept. 11, a terrible day in 2001 when evil tried to turn your cities, independent territories, into battlefields. When innocent people were attacked from the air.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur country is experiencing the same every day, right now, at this moment. Every night for three weeks now,\u201d he continued, trying to connect with Americans on what Ukraine is experiencing and reminding the U.S. what being under attack is like.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy reiterated his request for the U.S. to establish a no-fly zone \u2013 something the administration has repeatedly voiced opposition to. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/15\/joe-biden-signs-government-funding-ukraine-aid-bill\/\">(RELATED:\u00a0Biden Signs Government Funding, Ukrainian Aid Bill)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Though he continued to press for a no-fly zone, Zelenskyy acknowledged that the U.S. has <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/14\/the-view-hosts-debate-ukraine-russia-no-fly-zone\/\">nixed<\/a> the request. He offered up a secondary option during his address, asking for surface-to-air missile systems that could allow Ukraine to protect its sky.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy also pushed for more sanctions, asking President Joe Biden\u2019s administration that all Russian politicians be blacklisted. He pleaded with all American companies to leave the Russian market, as well.<\/p>\n<p>In the middle of his address to Congress, the Ukrainian president played a video for lawmakers. The video featured a compilation of viral photographs and clips showing some of the devastation going on in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>It included many dead women and children, bodies being thrown into mass graves, buildings being targeted and more.\u00a0The video concluded with a request to \u201cclose the skies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy ultimately ended his speech with a direct plea to Biden: \u201cBeing the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace,\u201d Zelenskyy declared.<\/p>\n<p>Biden will deliver remarks a few hours after Zelenskyy\u2019s address on Wednesday. He\u2019ll speak on how the U.S. is providing support to Ukraine and is expected to announce $800 million more for military aid, a White House official said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/zelensky-congress-address-ba4fb223-7df5-47ed-aa3b-097c21cb1eae.html\">according<\/a> to Axios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy invoked some of the biggest tragedies in U.S. history as he pleaded to lawmakers for more help Wednesday.Zelenskyy addressed Congress virtually, noting he remains in Kyiv<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1383797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1383797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1383797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1383797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1383797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}