Ramaswamy is clearly trying to ingratiate himself with the MAGA seditionist crowd, so perhaps his willful ignorance makes sense. And now, not having enough blood, he’s now going to Ukraine to murder innocent civilians and kidnap 20,000 children.” This is the person who is murdering people in his own country. “Look, Donald Trump said Vladimir Putin was brilliant and a great leader. And we are not going to solve it by going over and cuddling up to Vladimir Putin,” Christie added. “And the fact of the matter is, we need to say right now that the Chinese-Russian alliance is something we have to fight against. The naivete on this stage from some of these folks is extraordinary.” The Iranians are supplying more sophisticated weapons, and so are the North Koreans now as well, with the encouragement of the Chinese. The Chinese are paying for the Russian war in Ukraine. Are we focused too much on Ukraine, and not enough on this threat from the new world order?” Christie smashed it out of the ballpark: “No, they’re all connected, Stuart. China and Russia are already allies.Īfter that exchange, moderator and Fox Business host Stuart Varney teed up a softball for the rest of the pro-Ukraine candidates, asking, “ Christie, President Biden’s first two years have brought China, Russia, and Iran closer together. and Western power for years- since 2001, actually. They’ve been using the BRICS framework to try and balance out U.S. It would take an ignoramus conspiracy theorist like Ramaswamy, who has admitted to not knowing anything about foreign policy until six months ago, to think that supporting Ukraine would bring those two countries further together. Peace comes through strength.” Remember, China and Russia declared they had a “friendship with no limits” right before Russia invaded. Nikki Haley added, “A win for Russia is a win for China.”Īfter tech bro Vivek Ramaswamy claimed that supporting Ukraine was “driving Russia further into China’s arms,” former Vice President Mike Pence made the obvious point that, “Vivek, if you let Putin have Ukraine, that’s a green light to China to take Taiwan. “By degrading the Russian military, we actually keep our homeland safer, we keep our troops at home.” Former United Nations Ambassador and South Carolina Gov. “ur national vital interest is in degrading the Russian military,” said South Carolina Sen. But it did open up the field to more forceful defenses. “We are not going to have a blank check.” He then awkwardly pivoted to border border border. “It is in our interest to end this war, and that’s what I will do as president,” he answered impotently, spewing empty words. soldiers in the fight?”ĭeSantis, hack that he is, had nothing. But is it in our best interest to degrade Russia’s military for less than 5 percent of what we pay annually on defense, especially when there are no U.S. Today the Republican Party is at odds over aid to Ukraine. “President Reagan believed that if you want to prevent a war, you better be prepared to fight one. Experts say President Putin has ordered assassinations across Europe, cheated on arms control treaties with the U.S., and seeks to work with China to force our decline,” former White House press secretary and debate moderator Dana Perino asked Florida Gov. “So, Governor DeSantis, let me go to you. It got even better when the moderators adopted the ad’s narrative when asking the assembled candidates about Ukraine. But Trump’s MAGA cult has lined up behind their authoritarian pro-Putin leader, rupturing the Republican Party and leading to a seemingly inevitable government shutdown at midnight on Sept. This is all quite clear to Democrats and old-guard Republicans. Not only does Russia’s battlefield defeat have budgetary implications, but it will inform whether we have to fight a hot war against either China or North Korea that would cost trillions of dollars, claim untold lives, and destroy the world economy. Russia is a big part of the reason that the United States’ defense budget is north of $800 billion … and fast approaching $900 billion. Īnd then there are the strategic considerations. Remember, the one change that the Trump camp made to the 2016 Republican Party platform was watering down support for Ukraine. Ukraine was at the center of Donald Trump’s first impeachment, and featured heavily in internal Republican machinations. It might not be obvious, but the war in Ukraine has always been an issue of utmost domestic importance to the United States.
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