{"id":1710448,"date":"2022-10-25T12:47:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T16:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1710448"},"modified":"2022-10-25T12:48:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T16:48:15","slug":"leftists-push-biden-to-rethink-ukraine-strategy-seek-diplomatic-end-with-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftists-push-biden-to-rethink-ukraine-strategy-seek-diplomatic-end-with-moscow\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftists Push Biden To Rethink Ukraine Strategy, Seek \u2018Diplomatic\u2019 End With Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fleftists-push-biden-to-rethink-ukraine-strategy-seek-diplomatic-end-with-moscow%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=1710448&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--><p>Thirty House Democrats pushed President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Biden<\/a> in a Monday letter to open channels of communication with Moscow and seek a diplomatic end to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/ukraine-russia-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia-Ukraine war<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/progressives.house.gov\/_cache\/files\/5\/5\/5523c5cc-4028-4c46-8ee1-b56c7101c764\/B7B3674EFB12D933EA4A2B97C7405DD4.10-24-22-cpc-letter-for-diplomacy-on-russia-ukraine-conflict.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a> was led by the Progressive Caucus chair, Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/pramila-jayapal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pramila Jayapal<\/a> (D-WA). The document echoed sentiments expressed last week by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who said U.S. aid to Ukraine should not be a \u201cblank check.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The signers of the Monday letter credited Biden for his support for Ukraine. They said the United States should push for a diplomatic solution to the conflict soon because of the increasing threat of nuclear weapons, however. Toward that end, the U.S. should begin pulling back financial and military support for Ukraine, the Democrats said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the destruction created by this war for Ukraine and the world, as well as the risk of catastrophic escalation, we also believe it is in the interests of Ukraine, the United States, and the world to avoid a prolonged conflict. For this reason, we urge you to pair the military and economic support the United States has provided to Ukraine with a proactive diplomatic push, redoubling efforts to seek a realistic framework for a ceasefire,\u201d the letter says.<\/p>\n<p>The letter brought swift condemnation from the signers\u2019 Democratic colleagues. Some of the letter\u2019s endorsers walked back the document amid the backlash as the group was accused of trying to appease Russian President Vladimir Putin. Jayapal released a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USProgressives\/status\/1584687094508974081\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> attempting to soften the letter\u2019s claims, saying, \u201cwe support President Biden and his administration\u2019s commitment to nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVladimir Putin\u00a0would have signed that letter if asked,\u201d a member of the House Democratic leadership team told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/playbook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a>, \u201cThat bone-headed letter just put Dems in the same league as Kevin McCarthy, who said in the same week that Ukraine funding could be in jeopardy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy said last week that Ukraine\u2019s time with a \u201cblank check\u201d from the U.S. to fight Russia would be over should the GOP take over the House next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think people are gonna be sitting in a recession and they\u2019re not going to write a blank check to Ukraine,\u201d McCarthy told <a href=\"https:\/\/punchbowl.news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Punchbowl News<\/a>. \u201cThey just won\u2019t do it. \u2026 It\u2019s not a free blank check.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy\u2019s comments were a noticeable break with what had been the general Washington consensus: that Ukraine would take the lead in deciding when hostilities would end. Foreign policy experts have questioned that consensus and said it was never a viable long-term solution.<\/p>\n<p>George Beebe, director of grand strategy at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, endorsed the letter and said Biden\u2019s current approach to Ukraine is untenable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden said quite accurately that if present trends continue, we could be headed toward the most dangerous crisis we\u2019ve faced since the Cuban missile crisis. The question then is, what do we do about that?\u201d Beebe told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/10\/24\/biden-ukraine-liberals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Post<\/a>. \u201cSimply saying it\u2019s up to Ukraine to decide is abdicating the responsibility America\u2019s leaders have to safeguard the security in all of this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty House Democrats pushed President Joe Biden in a Monday letter to open channels of communication with Moscow and seek a diplomatic end to the Russia-Ukraine war. The letter was led by the Progressive Caucus chair, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA). The document echoed sentiments expressed last week by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1710451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1710448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1710448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1710451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1710448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1710448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1710448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}