Republicans aren't on the same page about how to respond to Russian aggression. What does unite them, though, is the conviction that President Biden cannot be entrusted with America’s national security. ed_kilgore writes
Senator Mitt Romney speaks with reporters just outside of the Senate chamber during a vote on Capitol Hill on February 10, 2022. Photo: Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images A decade ago, Mitt Romney, who would soon clinch the Republican 2012 presidential nomination, made headlines by telling CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that Russia was “without question, our number one geopolitical foe.
Senators Mitch McConnell, Tom Cotton, and Tommy Tuberville were prominent among those claiming that Biden should not have waited for overt Russian military action before imposing sanctions on Russia and its economic interests.
Trump has characteristically mixed his attacks on his successor with gestures of admiration toward Putin for his shrewd ruthlessness. During a fundraiser on Wednesday, he said of the Russian president, “He’s taking over a country for $2 worth of sanctions. I’d say that’s pretty smart.” In the MAGA commentariat, the highly influential Tucker Carlson has taken a tack that one analyst called “anti-anti-Putin,” arguing that conservatives should remain focused on the terrible deeds of Joe Biden instead of the relatively less threatening Putin.
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