Members of the GOP’s large presidential primary field are aligned on taxes, health care and energy. But on whether to continue U.S. assistance to Ukraine, the candidates fall into two camps: skeptics and full-throated supporters.
, though, DeSantis has echoed Trump’s call for a settlement of the war, a position that critics say would effectively reward Putin’s aggression.Ramaswamy, the only major primary candidate who has not served in public office, attracted notice in early June when hean armistice similar to the one that has been in force on the Korean peninsula for nearly 70 years, as long as Russia ended its alliance with China.
"I don't think that's a top foreign policy priority," Ramaswamy said."I don't think it is preferable for Russia to be able to invade a sovereign country that is its neighbor. But ... I think the No. 1 threat to the U.S. military is right now, our top military threat, is the China-Russian alliance. I think that by fighting further in Russia, by further arming Ukraine, we are driving Russia into China's hands.
"This is bigger than Ukraine," she said."This is a war about freedom. And it's one we have to win. You look at those Ukrainians, and what did they do when Russia invaded their freedoms? They moved in there, went to the front lines, and fought for their country. The women said, we're not going to stay back. They made Molotov cocktails to defend their country.
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