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Posted on 05/17/2022 4:17:18 AM PDT by RandFan
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is stamping out former President Trump’s efforts to sow dissension in the Republican Party over whether to send tens of billions of dollars in new assistance to Ukraine.
McConnell is framing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a clear threat to U.S. national security interests, espousing the muscular foreign policy worldview that Republicans were known for before Trump took office in 2017.
He traveled to the country over the weekend as part of an all-Republican Senate delegation to personally assure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that there’s strong Republican support for Kyiv, despite criticism of the latest Ukraine aid package from Trump and his allies, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).
McConnell has feuded with Trump since he excoriated the former president on the Senate floor for inciting the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, but he has mostly played defense, dodging repeated questions about Trump and ignoring the former president’s scathing mockery and attack.
Now McConnell has a chance to go on offense by pushing his party to embrace the strong national security and foreign policy vision that it was known for under former Presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, a worldview that Trump stepped away from.
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Reagan’s approach to the Cold War: “We win, they lose.”
Gorbachev: “You won.”
McConnell: “Let’s try again, because we’re on a losing streak, and I think you’ll have a better chance this time.”
First, don’t completely buy the premise of the article. Yes Trump criticized the bill, but he’s supported massive aid for Ukraine.
Can’t this asshole drop dead already? He’s Schumer with more chins.
Have we learned nothing from previous military excursions with the GOPe? We need new leaders
Mitch doesn’t have to convince our Ukraine shills that sending $50 billion to Zelenskyy is a good idea. They are leading the cheers!!
Link please.
That's the reason Trump was elected. Twice. Has McConnell ever visited our border? Now that's in our national security interest.
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And our own borders aren”t a national security issue ? FMM !
Go find it yourself.
Glad I’m not on McConnell’s side regarding Ukraine.
He was always a snake, never trusted him and his Kabal. He was facing trump while stabbing him in the back like most did
It doesn’t exist. Are you making things up?
Don’t the people in Kentucky realize that this five chinned dope does not represent their best interests? Gee whiz.
McConnell is framing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a clear threat to U.S. national security interests, espousing the muscular foreign policy worldview that Republicans were known for before Trump took office in 2017.
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How’d that work out in the Middle East? After pouring in billions in military equipment and the loss of thousands of U.S. military, an unstable region was made more unstable.
“Obviously there’s merit in the proposal to help out the Ukrainian people. I think there’s a strong will within the Republican Party to provide support to Ukraine,” he said. “But I think Rand Paul, Donald Trump and others make important points. If we’re going to spend money like this, we need to find offsets. We need to have some responsibility in how we spend money.”
If Trump was in office I doubt the Russians attack. If they did our economy would be a lot better off and sending ukraine some money wouldn’t hurt very bad. Our borders would be protected and gas would be cheaper. They now want to send the money to a dirty corrupt government so they can launder it and possibly send it back to the politicians. Does anyone think bidens family was the only one getting paid through there kids “business” in ukraine. No over sight on what the money is used for.
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