{"id":1978650,"date":"2023-07-20T15:35:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T19:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukraine-inner-cities-and-character-attacks\/"},"modified":"2023-07-20T15:36:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T19:36:09","slug":"ukraine-inner-cities-and-character-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukraine-inner-cities-and-character-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine: Urban Areas and Personal Attacks"},"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\">12<\/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%2Fukraine-inner-cities-and-character-attacks%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=1978650&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--><h2>This weekend, Tucker \u2064Carlson \u2064interviewed a bevy \u2063of Republican presidential candidates in Iowa.<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite the fact that polls show that nearly zero Americans consider the war in Ukraine \u200dto be a\u200b top voting priority, Carlson spent a disproportionate share of his time grilling the\u2064 candidates over their position on Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Questioning Priorities<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As he\u2064 asked Mike Pence, \u201cEvery city in \u2063the United States has become\u2062 much worse over the past three years. \u2026 Our economy has degraded. The suicide rate has\u200d jumped. Public filth and disorder and\u2064 crime have exponentially increased.\u2062 And yet your concern is that the Ukrainians, a \u200ccountry most people can\u2019t find on a map, who\u2019ve received\u200c tens of billions of U.S. tax dollars, don\u2019t have enough tanks?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This same\u200b line of logic\u2062 was utilized over the weekend by Senator JD \u200dVance (R-OH), who spoke at the\u2064 Turning Point USA conference in Florida.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>False Accusations<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThere\u2019s no\u2062 issue that these people with the Ukrainian flags in their bio are more obsessed with, \u2064they call it entitlement reform but what they\u2019re saying is they want to cut social \u2064security \u2026 so we can send more money to Volodymyr Zelensky \u2063in Ukraine,\u201d Vance \u200dsaid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Never mind the fact that this is patently untrue: those with Ukraine flags in their Twitter bios are highly likely\u200d to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukraine-inner-cities-and-character-attacks\/\" title=\"Ukraine: Urban Areas and Personal Attacks\">favor massive governmental expenditures domestically<\/a>. Never mind the fact that Vance himself used to be a proponent of entitlement reform.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The true \u2063concern is the absolutely specious link between a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-endorses-cheneys-republican-challenger\/\" title=\"McCarthy Endorses Cheney\u2019s Republican Challenger\">hawkish foreign policy<\/a> and apathy about domestic concerns.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>False Linkage<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ukraine has become a\u2062 litmus test not because\u200c many Americans\u2063 care about it as a top issue \u2013 it has become a top issue\u2062 because many commentators and politicians now make the \u2064argument that if you wish to spend\u2064 a dollar in \u200cUkraine to fend off Russian predation, you must be unconcerned\u2063 about the suffering of \u200dAmerican citizens here at home.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are several problems\u200d with\u200b this logic.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The basic notion that pouring government money into inner cities somehow cures them of their problems is belied by 60 \u200dyears of trying just that strategy, to massive failure. In most cases, we\u2019d be better off not spending government dollars on boondoggle programs,\u200b no matter where else we \u200dspend money.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The argument that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/at-atlantic-council-koch-funded-effort-to-marginalize-human-rights-causes-uproar\/\" title=\"At Atlantic Council, Koch-Funded Effort to Marginalize Human Rights Causes Uproar\">isolationist foreign policy<\/a> somehow results\u200b in greater American prosperity\u2064 is disconnected from reality. It has no logical \u2062limits \u2014 why not let China take Taiwan or Russia \u200ctake Poland? What\u2019s the limiting principle? But it\u2062 also ignores the \u200bfact that American citizens have real interests abroad: the \u200dUkraine \u200bwar has disrupted supply lines in \u200dresources ranging \u200dfrom platinum\u2063 and titanium to \u2064grain and oil; Russia\u2019s routine threats against its neighbors and expansionism in regions ranging from \u2063Africa to Syria threaten American allies and strengthen America\u2019s enemies, who further threaten American \u200ceconomic and security interests; China, buoyed \u200dby a soft Western response, would presumably move towards a full-scale Taiwan invasion.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hawkishness is not allied \u2064to domestic poverty; in fact, hawkishness \u200cin the aftermath of World \u2064War\u2063 II helped protect the safety of the oceans and the skies, thus leading to the greatest outpouring of prosperity in history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But regardless of what you think of America\u2019s support for Ukraine, it is dishonest to suggest that those who seek to fund Ukraine are universally \u200capathetic about their fellow Americans.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Character Attacks<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That implication is \u200dyet another symptom of our broken and polarized politics, in which nuanced \u2062arguments are \u2063ignored in favor of character attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tucker Carlson focused on Ukraine during his interviews with Republican presidential candidates in Iowa, despite polls indicating it is not a top voting concern for Americans. He dedicated a significant portion of his time to questioning the candidates on their stance, taking a strong position on the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":1978651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-1978650","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\/1978650","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\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1978650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1978651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1978650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1978650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1978650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}