Credit a headline in Le Monde for christening the alliance that has introduced a new world order, though perhaps Putin-Trump Axis would be more apt, since Trump inevitably bends a knee to Putin.
Trump has initiated negotiations with Russia, excluding Europeans and Ukrainians, to end the war started with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“You should have never started it. You could have made a deal,” President Trump said of Ukraine’s leaders. He went on to call President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “a Dictator without Elections.”
Dismissing the threat to our European allies, Trump has pledged a U.S. partnership with Russia.
Meanwhile, back home, Republicans have abandoned decades embracing a strong national defense, while opposing the U.S.S.R. and then Russia. Now Republican Senators have changed their tunes or held their tongues.
This shameful, foolish alliance that will damage our country’s security is not just Trump’s policy. This is the foreign policy of the contemporary Republican Party. The ‘serious’ Republican senators (and a smaller sample of House Republicans) we’ve read about in recent years, who put national security issues above partisan politics — they have switched sides or they lack the courage of their convictions.
This is their policy. They can’t escape it. Trump’s siding with Vladimir Putin and pushing away our allies is the foreign policy position of the Republican Party.
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