Biden Is Arming Ukraine To ‘Play For a Tie,’ Some America-First GOPers Say (Defense One)

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    Biden Is Arming Ukraine To ‘Play For a Tie,’ Some America-First GOPers Say – By Jacqueline Feldscher (Defense One) / July 26, 2022

    The view reveals disagreement even among Trump-following Republicans about how to respond to Russia’s invasion.

    The America-first faction of the Republican party is at war with itself over how much the United States should be helping Ukraine in the lead-up to the November election.

    Some non-interventionist Republicans say President Joe Biden is doing too much to help Ukraine, sending massive amounts of money and weapons with no plan for how the war ends while ignoring trouble back home. Others in the Trump wing of the party, however, argued this week that Biden is acting too slowly. He is giving the Ukrainian troops just enough to prolong the conflict and prevent defeat, they say, when he should be sending even more weapons to score a decisive victory over Russia.

    “We’ve got to provide what it takes to win that war and the sooner the better,” Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, said Monday at the America First Agenda Summit in Washington, which also included a Tuesday keynote from former president Donald Trump that focused on public safety and police. “My outcome that I want to see…is that we absolutely annihilate the Russian forces and we get them to crawl back into Russia so bloodied and bruised that they can’t come back,” Ernst said.

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