{"id":1845967,"date":"2023-02-14T07:34:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T12:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1845967"},"modified":"2023-02-14T07:35:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T12:35:37","slug":"republicans-who-want-war-to-the-hilt-against-russia-forget-the-lessons-of-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-who-want-war-to-the-hilt-against-russia-forget-the-lessons-of-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Who Want War \u2018To the Hilt\u2019 Against Russia Forget The Lessons Of Iraq"},"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%2Frepublicans-who-want-war-to-the-hilt-against-russia-forget-the-lessons-of-iraq%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=1845967&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-->\n<p>It didn\u2019t escape<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/02\/08\/with-his-sotu-ukraine-tie-mitch-mcconnell-advertised-which-country-hes-most-concerned-about\/\"> The notice<\/a> Conservatives, that Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was wearing the colors of his favorite team&#8217;s jersey on the evening of the State of the Union speech. Like millions of the virtue signalers on Facebook who replaced the Black Lives Matter or Covid vaccination logos on their profile pictures, McConnell\u2019s blue and yellow tie was a visual manifestation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/mitch-mcconnell-claims-we-all-agree-the-most-important-thing-going-on-in-the-world-right-now-is-the-war-in-ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">His belief<\/a> Support for Ukraine is the \u201cthe most important thing going on in the world.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As President Joe Biden\u2019s astonishing success in getting the Senate Republicans to rubber-stamp his decision to spend more than $100 billion on aid to Ukraine last year demonstrated, the Beltway GOP establishment is just as invested in the war in Ukraine as the Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Some of this is due to the remnants of Reaganite policy towards the Soviet Union. It rightly believed it was necessary to engage and defeat Moscow whenever it tried to expand its reach. Yet despite the fact that Vladimir Putin dreams of reassembling Stalin\u2019s empire, his Russia doesn\u2019t pose the same threat to the West that the Soviet Union did.<\/p>\n<p>That has been demonstrated by Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. It\u2019s been, to put it mildly, a fiasco that exposed systemic incompetence. Biden may be an option, but it is unlikely.https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/polish-scare-should-lesson-those-pushing-endless-war-ukraine-opinion-1760947&#8243;>blundering Into a nuclear Third World War scenario<\/a>The Russians do not pose a significant threat to NATO expansion.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Republicans, such as Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., are still sounding the same sort of critique of Biden\u2019s war policy that Republicans also used against weak-kneed Democrats who were soft on the communist threat in the last century. But according to Cotton\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-american-case-for-supporting-ukraine-china-russia-ukraine-national-secuirty-interests-global-leadership-11675781432\">pro-war manifesto<\/a> published earlier this month in The Wall Street Journal, in which he correctly states that Biden\u2019s indecisiveness and weakness encouraged Putin to do something he didn\u2019t dare try while Trump was president. He also argued Biden isn\u2019t doing enough to support Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky\u2019s ambitions in the region.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But a consensus about preserving Ukrainian independence against Putin\u2019s efforts to force it back into Soviet-era satellite status isn\u2019t good enough for GOP hawks. They want a full American commitment to Zelensky\u2019s quest to oust the Russians from every inch of soil that was under Ukrainian sovereignty in 2014. If that means giving Ukraine U.S. fighter jets, cluster bombs, and long-range missiles to hit targets deep inside Russia, then Cotton\u2019s all for it. He believes anything short of a complete Ukrainian victory \u2014 however improbable that might be \u2014 would be a disaster and wants an American commitment to \u201cwar to the hilt\u201d Russia.<\/p>\n<p>That may resonate with Republicans who came of age after the Vietnam War when Americans critiqued leaders who didn\u2019t fight to win the wars they blundered into. He believes America should have had a \u201cstrategy of victory\u201d that will put an end to Russia\u2019s ability to threaten Europe and deter China from invading Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing poses a threat to U.S. interests, but not like the Moscow regime that is in decline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans who want an endless war between Ukraine and Russia think they can buy \u2018victory\u2019 over Putin, but they are wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":1845970,"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":[546],"tags":[10954,14292,18568,17259,7843,3756,4280,6696],"class_list":["post-1845967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-to","tag-forget","tag-hilt","tag-iraq","tag-lessons","tag-republicans","tag-russia","tag-war"],"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\/1845967","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\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1845967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1845970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1845967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1845967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1845967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}