A year into the war in Ukraine, the United States's commitment to funding and supplying the fight against Russia has emerged as a dividing line in the nascent 2024 Republican presidential field.
Former President Donald Trump has warned that the conflict could metastasize into World War III with nuclear-armed Russia and has vowed to resolve it diplomatically within “24 hours.”
Former Vice President Mike Pence, who isn’t yet an announced candidate for the Republican nomination, is clearly eyeing the 2024 race and putting distance between his Ukraine stance and Trump’s. This reflects a larger split in the Republican Party over the war in Ukraine specifically and U.S. foreign policy more broadly. Many fiscal conservatives no longer wish to exempt the Pentagon from their budget scalpels. Populists would like to see greater focus on domestic problems, like the flow of fentanyl. Many inside the GOP would like to shift attention from Europe and the Middle East to the threat posed by China.
Trump attempted to make a clean break from Bush’s foreign policy during his term but relied heavily on Bush alumni and fellow travelers to staff his national security team. Some of those officials, like Pence, Haley, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and former national security adviser John Bolton, are part of the prospective field likely to run against him next year.
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