McConnell warns of naivety in Trump's Putin policy and criticizes Ukraine course
McConnell warns of naivety in Trump's Putin policy and criticizes Ukraine course
The former Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell sharply criticized the Ukraine policy of the Trump government and the phrase for isolation on Thursday evening. He threw the consultants of President Donald Trump to show "humiliating naivety" in the negotiations with the Russian President Vladimir Putin.
warnings before a retreat from Ukraine
McConnell, a permanent supporter of Ukraine, commented on the highest award of the US Ukraine Foundation and warned that "some advisors of the President" urge Trump to withdraw from the war-plagued land. He argued that such a step would be a sign of "weakness".
The global implications of the war
"This war reminds us that what happens in one region has consequences for another. Weakness to an enemy would invite aggression of another, even closer enemy. Our credibility is not divisible," said McConnell. "Allies on the other side of the world in Asia told us the same - that the defense of Ukraine against Russian aggression is important for those who live in the shade of China."
The influence of consultants on Trump's decisions
"America cannot afford to ignore these lessons. But that is exactly what some advisors of the president push him," continued McConnell.
a split republican warehouse
The clear words of McConnell come at a time when Trump has spoken to Putin twice since taking office and a phase of silence was broken between the White House and the Kremlin. This is also done after the President's heated meeting with the Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj at the end of the last month.
McConnell in conflict with Trump supporters
McConnell's desire for an active US role to contain aggression from Russia in Ukraine contradicts a growing part of the Republican spectrum of voters, which is inclined to the Trump's isolationist perspective. While he often agreed with Trump during his tenure, recently turned against almost all Senate Republic Cabinet nominations - including the important positions of the Minister of Defense and the Director of the National Secret Services, voted
McConnell, the longest incumbent Senate guide in history, experienced how Trump reproached him after his resignation in November 2022. McConnell found on Thursday that the allies and opponents of the United States observe exactly how the Putin government praised. "When the President's envoy prices the generosity of a tyrannical autocrat, this happens under the watchful eyes of his friends in Beijing, Tehran and Pyongyang. If his representatives in the negotiations camouflage themselves as a neutral referee or appeals to the appeals or treat them as morally equivalent, this happens in the full field of long -term partners around the world - some of them, which is Know the taste of aggression, and others who have good reasons to fear their upcoming arrival, ”said McConnell. "When American officials are looking for the favor of an enemy at the expense of allies. If they mock our friends to impress an enemy. Show their shameful naivety," added McConnell. The former GOP leader referred to the armaments of the former President Ronald Reagan and the end of the Cold War. He particularly emphasized what he described as "the most popular sentence in Washington today": peace through strength. "But too many of those who use it - especially among the presidents' consultants - do not seem to be willing to raise the necessary resources and the national will," he argued. McConnell concluded with an urgent warning: "Cut the Ukraine, means to stab ourselves in our back. The same applies to the discrediting of allies that have been fought and died at our side." weakening of credibility
The role of the Allies and opponents
The dangers of naivety
an appeal for strengthening
an urgent final appeal
Kommentare (0)