I went from being neutral and just wanting Americans to stay out of the war to now being against Ukraine. People think the J6 “insurrection” was bad? A foreign flag is being flown inside the US Capitol while a foreign leader makes demands of the American people on American soil.
Ukraine should be regarded as a national security threat no different from any other hostile country.
I’m going to conclude that lib outrage at these tweets is the result of them knowing support for Ukraine is cracking. People don’t care about Zelensky. In fact, they hate him. They also hate his government for as long as it is associated with him and this grift.
It has taken a Herculean effort to create consensus around Ukraine with literally every political and cultural knife in the kitchen thrown at the problem. But you can only force this trash on people for so long.
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I think more people than seems obvious not only oppose US involvement in the Russo-Ukrainian War but resent Zelensky and the government of Ukraine for essentially extorting America with moral blackmail
Public polling is largely bullshit designed to tell the public *how* to think rather than revealing *what* the public thinks, so this is remarkable: “Roughly 30% of all voters think the U.S. is doing too much to support Ukraine, up from 6% in a March poll” forbes.com/sites/madeline…
Again, given how much has been done to create a consensus around the war, this is remarkable—and it will continue to crack
The right should oppose America launching wars of regime change. That is the definition of restraint
But constantly *intervening* abroad would completely negate that restraint—we would be constantly meddling or fighting, as we are now
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“I’m against regime change wars but I believe the US must intervene to prevent regime change abroad, from Europe to Africa and the Middle East, whenever the TV tells me that’s what’s happening”
So you’re going to get the Jacobin French Revolutionary Wars 2/
Just constant ideologically driven conflict that is, ironically, driven entirely by “feels” encapsulated in slogans urging us to “DO SOMETHING” 3/
The money we’re committing to @ZelenskyyUa is unjustifiable. He belongs in jail—not in the White House.
Before the war, he was considered an utterly corrupt failure of a politician who probably would have been forced out of office one way or another. 1/ kyivindependent.com/national/top-1…
Zelensky is an uppity foreigner who scoffed “Inflation is nothing” at Americans who had the audacity to suggest we should look out for America first. 2/ newsweek.com/ukraine-zelens…
The US has so far pledged significantly more money to this war than *all European Union countries combined,* according to data compiled by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. 3/ ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-aga…
Though Trump has publicly broken with Mitch McConnell, he and his camp are now fighting to keep two of the three top GOP leaders in power: Kevin McCarthy *and* RNC chair Ronna McDaniel.
Ronna is harder to publicly defend than McCarthy, and Trump has done that with him. In an interview with Breitbart on Dec. 16, he warned people to back off from challenging Kevin.
But Ronna is also receiving support, albeit more discretely.
Also on Dec. 16, the Associated Press reported that amid an “increasingly nasty leadership fight” over the RNC, McDaniel is “facing a rising wave of discontent from Trump’s ‘MAGA’ movement.” And while Trump is publicly neutral, his camp is helping McDaniel.apnews.com/article/politi…