Pro-Ukraine Republicans are committed to GOP isolationists

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In a recent closed meeting, Republican MP Michael McCaul criticized members of his party who parroted Russian disinformation and the viewpoints of President Vladimir Putin. McCaul, a former chairman of the Federal Foreign Committee of the House of Representatives from Texas and passionate supporter of Ukraine, noticed that his clear attitude for an active role in the United States for deterrent Russian aggression in Ukraine makes him a rare exception within the Republican Party.

McCaul's warnings of Russian propaganda

McCaul's offices did not want to comment on private statements. The MP previously warned that Russian propaganda could "achieve a significant number" of his party base. The change in the party away from Ronald Reagan's principle "Peace through strength" has created a kind of wire rope act for many Republicans who try to reconcile their support for Ukraine with the more isolationist perspective of President Donald Trump.

division within the Republican Party

Although the Republicans are split in the congress regarding the continuation of the help for Ukraine, there are still some party members who are publicly committed to the war. This week, the Republican MP Don Bacon expressed concerns that loud voices within his party, who pursue an isolationist approach, harm the US foreign capacities and possibly endanger the success of the party.

The relationship between Washington and Kyiv

The relationship between Washington and Kiev has been tense since Trump's office and includes the interruption and resumption of military and intelligence support for Ukraine as well as a controversial meeting in the Oval Office with the Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj. In the meantime, the US government has not imposed no sanctions against Russia, although Russia refuses to agree to a proposal from the White House for a 30-day ceasefire and impose conditions for a partial ceasefire in the Black Sea.

public calls to support Ukraine

So far, there have been only a few cases in this congress in which Republicans turned away from Trump, which makes the public positions of the self-proclaimed Reagan supporters all the more remarkable. Two days after the Oval Office confrontation with Selenskyj, Republican MP Brian Fitzpatrick turned to Selenskyj's chief of staff to "bring this train back onto the tracks".

criticism of the isolationism of the Trump administration

The former Republican Senate guide Mitch McConnell expressed sharp criticism of the Ukraine policy of the Trump administration and its avert from commitment by accusing Trump advisors "embarrassing naivety" in dealing with Putin. The Republican Senator Roger Wicker also gave a passionate speech in the Senate, in which he spoke against reports that indicated that the Trump administration was willing to lift some sanctions against Russia. In addition, Bacon published an opinion in the New York Times this week entitled "My Mit Republicans and President Trump, we have to oppose Putin".

The importance of cooperation and alliances

The Republican MP Dan Newhouse noted that he was not sure whether the approval of Trump's line would go back, only that the opposite way of thinking was now louder. "I think many people still feel obliged to stand by our friends. America needs its allies, they need us and it should be a symbiotic, consistently positive relationship," says Newhouse.

difficulties in strategic statements

A number of republicans who have opposed the position of administration - from the conviction of Trump's claim that Selenskyj is a "dictator", right down to disapproval of the administration approach for negotiations on negotiations on an armistice - admits that they have to strategically consider when they make public statements. "There are committee chairers who say: 'Don, you are the spokesman, you have to maintain this," including those who are not loud themselves, "says Bacon.

commitment to Ukraine despite internal differences

Although public pressure increases and sinks, GOP legislators assure CNN that they feel obliged to regularly argue behind the scenes convincingly towards those who are willing to listen to. Republican Dusty Johnson from South Dakota recognizes that there is sometimes a discrepancy between public and private statements. He explained: "The reality is that people tend to publicly praise their own people in the White House and to criticize privately. This is our job as good teammates."

symbolism of support for Ukraine

The Republican MP Joe Wilson from South Carolina always has badge with the Ukrainian and American flags. His cufflinks, a gift from the deputy mayor of Kiev, symbolize the success of the Ukrainian troops when the “mother ship” of the Russian Black Sea fleet sinks. "I am a history student and have the feeling that we are experiencing a kind of revival of 1939 when Hitler attacked Poland on September 1," said Wilson, the co-chair of the Bipartisan Helsinki Commission, and compared the beginning of the Second World War to Putin's invasion to Ukraine.

Although he said that he "has nothing against what Trump is doing", he would have liked the now notorious Oval Office meeting to have been a "private conversation". He proudly remembers a moment he had with the spokesman for the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, on which RNC congress in Milwaukee. Johnson validated in front of a room full of EU ambassadors that he was a "Reaganite"-which Wilson could only acknowledge with applause.

But Johnson, who campaigned for this to provide important means for foreign helpers at a critical moment last year, declined remarkably in the question and recently left Trump the first step. At the Conservative Political Action Conference in February, Johnson shook his head when he was asked if he was seeing another financing law for the war in Ukraine. "There is no appetite for that," said the speaker. "What do you think?" Thereupon the extremely right part of the audience broke out into a built.