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Including in the republican party, is in favour of a strong american presence in the world, and the isolationists will find themselves isolated. if it fails to pass, that will be a real blow for biden and i would say for the united states more broadly. again, we can all see that this is a quite pivotal global moment in terms of the different conflicts that are going on. so, is the us facing an alliance set on destabilising the west or are these three independent conflicts, each of which happens ...

United states and european countries, through propaganda campaigns and supporting isolationist and extremist policies. russia is fomenting division over ukraine because it wants to weaken americas role in the world. in particular, one russian policy expert cited in one of these documents specifically calls on russia to continue to facilitate the coming to power of isolationists right-wing forces in america. just to put a finer point on this, russia very much wants the marjorie taylor greens of t...

The war that any loss is not their loss. this is an absolute misunderstanding. a defeat for ukraine, he said, means that many will fear stop fearing challenging the u.s. and the costs will increase. it feels like some people in the senate in the republican party understand the importance here of not empowering the isolationists, both as a matter of functionality and in terms of the cause of democracy in another world. do you think that speaker johnson is able to bring funding to the chagrin of t...

Because of the politics of this. on the other side of the aisle, that this may not happen at all. and so yeah, look, it is behind right. ukraine has lost ground because we have delayed because because of the politics of my colleagues across the aisle. but speaker johnson now has decided to move as hakeem jeffries, my leader said, this is a chamberlain or churchill moment and it looks like leader jeffries is going to help potentially mike johnson make this a churchill moment for all americans. be...

Senate in the republican party understand the importance here of not empowering the isolationists both as a matter of sort of republican functionality and also in terms of the cause of western-style liberal democracy all over the world. do you think speaker johnson is willing to bring up this ukraine aid funding to the chagrin of the far right is a signal theyve been employed by the use of the kremlin? >> i would not go that far. it seems speaker johnson has made an individual decision that it w...

Support individuals who are trying to argue against ukraine funding, and listen, theres no doubt that he is rooting very badly for donald trump. theres no doubt that he will likely play a big role in this upcoming election, because if we get this bill across the finish line, alex, if we do fund ukraine, itll only be through the beginning of next year. at a donald trump is elected, thats a pretty clear guarantee that this would be the last ukraine funding bill that whatever clear the house-senate...

Worthwhile to spend a little bit of time on. >> theres such a good twist when it comes to him. its a real -- anyway. >> but talk about him a little bit. >> so lawrence tennis had been a state department official. he had gone to harvard, he was a very erudite, very articulate guy. and he was, he had kind of a substack contrary next to him. you can compliment him without him insulting you for complimenting him. he was that kind of guy. but he also, in his gruffness and his contrarianism, made ever...

Him. >> terry, one thing that stuck out to me is how much there seemed to be the appetite on the stage to voice opposition to on some level to send u.s. aid and money to ukraine, and it is a big shift amongst people that relatively speaking are polling pretty high in the republican, you know, the republican leaders of the party, if you will. what do you see in that? >> that is a divide of the people who are calling neo cons and the isolationists, and the mainstream, and it is a little bit more o...

While republicans are split with 49% approving and the same number disapproving according to a pew survey conducted in march. 60% of the democrats in the same poll believe its best for the future of our country to be active in world affairs while only 39% felt we should pay attention to problems overseas and concentrate on problems here at home. for republicans, those numbers are essentially reversed with 70% wanting to focus at home and just 29% believing in an active world war for america. thi...

Senate Armed Services Committee ranking member Roger Wicker (R-MS) declared on Tuesday that a Russian fighter jet collision that effectively downed a U.S. drone should be a "wake-up call to isolationists."