[BroJoeK]

Candor7: "Congressman Matt Gaetz wants the SOuthern border closed as a predicate to further aid to Israel.
To simply say he is against Israel is not correct in simple truth or in any truthful context."

Sadly, Republicans have tied ourselves up in knots trying to negotiate with Democrats who refuse under all circumstances to make a "grand deal".
Democrats know their own existential priorities, and those are first and foremost, to keep our borders wide open to illegal immigrants -- the more the better they love it.

So, nothing can distract Democrats from their first priority -- not Ukraine, not Israel, not anything else Republicans might attempt to use as leverage against Democrats.
The only thing which can stop Democrats' insane policies is to vote them from power in November.

In the meantime, Republicans have tied ourselves up into the crazy position of appearing pro-Putin, anti-Ukraine, anti-Israel and who knows, maybe even anti-Taiwan -- seemingly just so we can gain leverage over Democrats regarding the US border.

It's a 100% wasted effort, will not succeed in anything except getting Republicans correctly blamed for hurting America's friends and allies in the world.

We simply cannot negotiate Democrats out of their own existential best interests.
We can only defeat them at the ballot boxes in November.
In the meantime, we should not knowingly abandon America's friends and allies in the world, because if we do, the negative consequences will be beyond our imaginations today.

[PIF]

Who in the House GOP were the geniuses that decided to hold up funds for peoples fighting for their existence in order to change a policy?

Rhetorical question. One that will cost the GOP the House at the least in Nov.

[Williams]

Bingo.
I would have supported a foreign aid / Southern border deal, but of course the democrats don’t care who dies or where, so long as they get their takeover off America.

This is what they did to California and they are close to achieving it nationwide.

I fear even Trump doesn’t plan enough deportations.

[USA-FRANCE]

“In the meantime, Republicans have tied ourselves up into the crazy position of appearing pro-Putin, anti-Ukraine, anti-Israel and who knows, maybe even anti-Taiwan — seemingly just so we can gain leverage over Democrats regarding the US border.”

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What you just wrote precisely defines and explains the paradoxical situation we Republicans have put ourselves into. Tying us up in a sitting duck situation, using our allies’ (Israel, Urkraine) catastrophic situation as leverage - against the Democrats.
Unfortunately, the Democrats have become fundamentalist fanatics, they prefer to die rather than protect America’s borders. Its crazy, but that’s how it is. Thus, the leverage we tried has failed... and now what?

In the meantime, the Kremlinists and Iran/Hamas are waging a general “war of replacment” against our allies, killing thousands upon thousands of innocent people.
We just can’t let this happen before our eyes anymore.
This is a moral issue.

Something must happen now.

[Candor7]

Agreed.