Sean Penn urged the White House to take a more aggressive approach toward arming Ukraine, telling a crowd at a screening of his film Superpower that those who are influencing U.S.
policy “need to get out of the pure caution business.” “I don’t mind being foolish in saying that I deeply believe, whether Democrat or Republican, if this was an issue that one of the parties chose to commit to, in arming Ukraine, that not only would it be a principal win, but it would be a political win.
I think we are hungering for that kind of decisiveness,” Penn told CBS News’ Major Garrett. “Caution has been very important, humanly and politically … But many times in emergencies, restraint is the enemy of action,” Penn added. “I think that there are influential people, perhaps influential with our president, who they themselves need to be encouraged to get out of the pure caution business because it starts to translate into cowardice.” The screening at the Motion Picture Association on Thursday, drawing attendees including Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi, Rep.
Eric Swalwell and Oksana Markarova, comes as the Biden administration has requested more than $21 billion in additional defense and other aid to Ukraine.
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