{"id":1352663,"date":"2022-03-01T13:38:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T18:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1352663"},"modified":"2022-03-01T13:53:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T18:53:54","slug":"reckless-neocons-want-escalation-with-russia-in-order-to-regain-control-of-the-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reckless-neocons-want-escalation-with-russia-in-order-to-regain-control-of-the-gop\/","title":{"rendered":"Reckless Neocons Want Escalation With Russia In Order To Regain Control Of The GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freckless-neocons-want-escalation-with-russia-in-order-to-regain-control-of-the-gop%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1352663&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/F22-Raptor.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Russian invasion of Ukraine has brought Republican neocons out of the woodwork, agitating for escalation and U.S. military involvement. The same people who brought us the Iraq War and a 20-year occupation of Afghanistan that ended last year in an ignominious and chaotic U.S. withdrawal would now like us to go to war with Russia, a nuclear power, over Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Partly because they\u2019re reacting emotionally to the war, which is understandable up to a point. But mostly they would like to leverage a military conflict with Russia to regain control of the Republican Party, whose voters have become deeply disillusioned with foreign interventions \u2014 and with the neocons who peddled them to the American people.<\/p>\n<p>Just consider who\u2019s calling for escalation with Russia. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., a NeverTrump hack who has spent the last few days\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/02\/28\/ukraine-proves-our-ruling-class-only-cares-about-misinformation-when-its-politically-convenient\/\">posting misinformation about the war on Twitter<\/a>, over the weekend called for the United States to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"zHVLxvtIY29nEqdU6fj0ykX\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1) The fate of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ukraine?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ukraine<\/a> is being decided tonight, but also the fate of the west. Declare a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NoFlyZone?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NoFlyZone<\/a> over Ukraine at the invitation of their sovereign govt. Disrupt Russias air ops to give the heroic Ukrainians a fair fight.  It\u2019s now, or later.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adam Kinzinger (@AdamKinzinger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamKinzinger\/status\/1497354030904975364?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Somehow, the analysis of people like Kinzinger never gets past the part where we shoot down a Russian MiG-29. But of course a no-fly zone would mean just that: The U.S. would have to shoot down Russian warplanes, and Russian warplanes would very likely do the same to us. We would be in a shooting war with Russia before the no-fly zone was even established.<\/p>\n<p>To his credit, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., flatly rejected the idea, saying, \u201cthat would mean World War III.\u201d Even the Biden White House, which rarely misses the chance to fall for a bad idea, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/livecoverage\/russia-ukraine-latest-news-2022-02-28\/card\/white-house-dismisses-talk-of-ukraine-no-fly-zone-sOZhEEtjxsLCpv3pG0a6\">dismissed<\/a> Kinzinger\u2019s insane notion, calling it \u201cnot a good idea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not just nobody Republicans like Kinzinger saying this stuff. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., also endorsed the idea of creating a no-fly zone over Ukraine. \u201cClearly, in the absence of a U.N. resolution, which Russia would veto, a strong coalition of like-minded nations should step in and seriously consider this,\u201d Wicker\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/ukraine-russia-no-fly-zone-senator-roger-wicker_n_621d47c2e4b0afc668c4d0f1\">told HuffPost on Monday<\/a>. Wicker isn\u2019t some back-bencher. He\u2019ll likely become the next top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee after Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., resigns later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Joining Wicker in this loose talk is former NATO supreme commander and retired U.S. Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove, who also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2022\/02\/27\/breedlove-nato-commander-russia-ukraine-war\/\">called for a no-fly zone in Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The no-fly zone isn\u2019t the only terrible idea being bandied about by establishment Republicans and former generals. On Sunday, Sen. Rob Portman, an Ohio Republican and a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said on Meet The Press that we should\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/meet-the-press\/meet-press-february-27-2022-n1290124\">right away bring Ukraine and other countries, like Georgia, into NATO<\/a>. Bringing Ukraine into NATO, a mutual defense treaty, would of course trigger Article V, which obligates all NATO members to come to the defense of a member that\u2019s under attack. In this case, that would mean \u2014 you guessed it \u2014 the U.S. going to war with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>That would be the best-case scenario for Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on the West for arms and aid, and asked NATO to \u201cclose the skies.\u201d And while it\u2019s perfectly understandable why Zelensky would want a no-fly zone over his country, or NATO troops to attack Russian forces inside Ukraine, it doesn\u2019t make sense for the U.S. to entertain the idea, or even for U.S. politicians and former generals to talk about it seriously in public.<\/p>\n<p>Unless, that is, these politicians see an opportunity, which some of them no doubt do. If the last five or six years have revealed anything about American politics, it\u2019s that the Republican Party is no longer controlled by the neocon establishment. Donald Trump wrested the party from the neocons, and he did so partly by insisting during the 2016 primaries that the GOP have an honest reckoning about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.<\/p>\n<p>No other candidate (besides Sen. Rand Paul) wanted to talk about that, because none of them wanted to criticize George W. Bush or admit that going to war in the Middle East in the vain hope of spreading democracy was in retrospect a horrible idea. But Trump forced the issue, to his credit, and won the nomination partly on that basis. It was something Republican voters wanted and needed; confronting the folly of those wars was the only way to move forward as a party.<\/p>\n<p>But now the neocons are back, if only for a moment, and they\u2019d like you to consider the idea that we shoot down some Russian warplanes, or annex Ukraine into NATO, or do any number of other reckless and provocative things to get us into a war with Russia. Also, they would like to be the ones to lead this effort.<\/p>\n<p>Understand that these aren\u2019t just stupid ideas from small-minded people, it\u2019s part of a larger, desperate bid for relevance, a last-ditch attempt to regain influence in the GOP \u2014 influence that these people long ago squandered, and should never get back.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  John Daniel Davidson is a senior editor at The Federalist. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Claremont Review of Books, The New York Post, and elsewhere. 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