Russia invades Ukraine {2022-02-24} (Part 2)

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Summary

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Seldom does the US get conflicts like the one in Ukraine where there’s relative moral, political, and strategic clarity. That’s why it’s particularly baffling to me why certain elements on the right are opposed to supporting Ukraine. It’s like we’ve been handed the opportunity to give a strategic adversary a black eye on the cheap while spending no American blood in the process. Kinda like wrapping up the Cold War and putting a tidy bow on it.

I realised that the world had changed when Trump in his campaign openly called on “Russia, if you’re listening”, to hack the government e-mails of the former Secretary of State and publish them.

I remember thinking, “That’s it, he’s done.”

I was wrong. Turns out Republicans are fine with having their good friends in Russia hacking the Secretary of State and accessing confidential government documents, so long as it’s in the service of the Republican candidate.

Why this has happened, I don’t understand. But that episode, followed up by the Helsinki press conference, showed that for Republicans, the Russians are their friends.