It is reported by some that Doanld Trump secretly wants to walk away from NATO….
President Trump actually wanted European Countries to ‘pay’ for American troops….
John McCain , a war prisoner, was NOT an isolationist ….
With money from the Biden admin still flowing to the Ukraine?
Some Republican’s want to stop it….
Other Rewpublicans strongly support the money going to what they see a fence against Russia’s Putin stealing back countries of the old Soviet Union without using American men and women…..
Left for politically dead in the summer of 2007, McCain turned around his presidential campaign by stumping for a more aggressive approach to the Iraq War. He regularly joked about how when he looked into the eyes of Russian President Vladimir Putin, he saw three letters: “KGB.”
“Those days are long gone,” Rick Davis, McCain’s 2008 campaign manager, lamented in a recent interview.
Davis serves on the board of the McCain Institute, founded in D.C. a few years before the senator’s death on Aug. 25, 2018. It promotes his views on defending democracy and human rights around the world. One of the institute’s central roles now is building outside coalitions to shore up political support for defending Ukraine against the Russian invasion.
Now five years after his death turned into a call to arms for Democrats and Republicans who believed in U.S. engagement abroad, McCain’s traditional Republican views of national security face their most difficult fight against the isolationist views of former president Donald Trump.
Congress returns this month to debate whether to authorize the more than $20 billion that President Biden has requested to boost Ukraine’swar against Russia and to back Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
That proposal has overwhelming support, except among House Republicans — some of whom are Trump’s most vocal supporters while many others fear his wrath should they oppose him. Trump, the leading GOP presidential contender for 2024, and his supporters do not view Ukraine as part of U.S. national security interests…..