GOP strained by Trump-influenced shift from Reagan on Russia | The Hill

It s not Ronald Reagan s GOP anymore. 

The Republican Party s shift from Russia hawk to something softer is straining the GOP at a crucial juncture, highlighting the ascendency of former President Trump s America First approach and exasperating old-guard conservatives who long for a return to the assertive foreign policy championed by the party through generations prior.

It s created nothing short of an identity crisis for those Republicans who still identify with the party of former President Reagan, a Cold War president long lionized within the GOP ranks for his aggressive confrontations with the Soviet Union.

via thehill.com

Ukraine consists of mostly ordinary people, not oligarchs. Most of them are fighting in the trenches or just enduring the war at home. I understand all the resentments against the CIA and the FBI. But Ukraine gets money to fight where it can find it. We can go back to isolationism the moment Russia pulls out of Ukraine and Hamas surrenders and returns its hostages. There aren’t a lot of battles of mostly good against mostly evil, but Ukraine (and Israel) are two of them.