This week, some Republican lawmakers affixed their names to an open letter addressed to President Joe Biden in which they express “concern” over the “unrestrained” aid the administration is providing Ukraine in its effort to resist Russia’s invasion. Though it could not have been its authors’ intention, the letter reveals how little purchase these sentiments apparently have among congressional Republicans.
Conservatives and Republicans who support Ukraine in its defense against Moscow’s murderous effort to gobble up neighboring territory — the largest war on European soil since 1945 — are routinely told that they are on the wrong side of their party’s voters. With all the bombast and self-assuredness that accompanies a belief in their own historic inevitability, the loudest voices in the Republican conference insist that those within the GOP who support Ukrainian sovereignty have their priorities all wrong.
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