Former Vice President Mike Pence deserves credit for forthrightly explaining the United States's interest in Ukraine when some in his Republican Party are singing an isolationist (or even demagogic) tune, writes QuinHillyer.
“This is not America’s war,” Pence said at the University of Texas. “But if we falter in our commitment to providing the support to the people of Ukraine to defend their freedom, our sons and daughters may soon be called upon to defend ours. If we surrender to the siren song of those in this country who argue that America has no interest in freedom’s cause, history teaches we may soon send our own into harm’s way to defend our freedom and the freedom of nations in our alliance.
This is bracing stuff. It comes as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Speaker Kevin McCarthy send smoke signals to the isolationist right by adopting the “no blank check for Ukraine” line. In one sense, the line is just common sense; but when it is uttered without any concomitant expression of support for Ukraine’s effort in general, it risks undermining U.S. public approval for assistance to a brave people battling a terroristic U.S. adversary.
Sen. Josh Hawley gave the starkest example of this when he told anti-Ukraine Fox News opinionator Tucker Carlson that he has a “message to congressional Republicans: You can either be the party of Ukraine and the globalists, or you can be the party of East Palestine and the working people of America.”
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