The criminal Putin is making every effort to restore the failed Soviet Union, said Congressman Joe Wilson said during a hearing in Congress.

He spoke about Russia's actions in Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus and Romania.

“In my opinion, what we are seeing is that the criminal Putin is making every effort to restore the failed Soviet Union.

The Russian military has never actually left Transnistria in Moldova. They were supposed to leave [Transnistria], but they didn’t, so they have occupied part of Moldova.

In addition, we know that they rigged the elections in Belarus.

Then there was the invasion of Georgia and the annexation of “South Ossetia” and Abkhazia. And then there was the invasion of Ukraine, in which tens of thousands of people died, in 2014 and 2022. And then there was the rigging of the national elections in Georgia on October 26, 2024, when an effort was made to replace the very brave President Salome Zurabishvili.

Recently, we saw an effort to rig the Romanian elections, but fortunately, it was not successful," Wilson said.