{"id":2010838,"date":"2023-08-24T13:37:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T17:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/neocon-energy-republican-candidates-debate-audience-back-ukraine-against-russia\/"},"modified":"2023-08-24T13:38:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T17:38:44","slug":"neocon-energy-republican-candidates-debate-audience-back-ukraine-against-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/neocon-energy-republican-candidates-debate-audience-back-ukraine-against-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Neocon Energy: GOP Candidates, Debate Crowd Support Ukraine vs Russia"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fneocon-energy-republican-candidates-debate-audience-back-ukraine-against-russia%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=2010838&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>Republican Candidates Show Strong \u2064Support for Ukraine in Presidential \u2063Debate<\/h2>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption>\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.example.com\/image.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Win McNamee\/Getty \u200cImages\"><br \/>\n    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Most contenders in the Republican presidential primary field firmly rejected the \u200cparty&#8217;s rising isolationist tide \u2064during the debate on Wednesday, with\u200c nearly every GOP candidate saying they support continued military\u2064 aid to Ukraine \u2064in its defense against Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the eight candidates on \u200bstage, only Vivek\u2062 Ramaswamy said he would cut aid, while Florida governor\u200d Ron DeSantis gave a noncommittal response.\u200c The other candidates&#8217; defenses\u200b of \u200dAmerican support for Ukraine were met\u2064 with applause from the debate crowd.<\/p>\n<p>The strong show of \u2063support for Ukraine comes \u200bas some \u2063conservative pundits and activists have lobbied for the United States to stay out \u2063of\u2064 the conflict. On Thursday, the\u2063 Heritage Foundation launched an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/conservative-group-debut-ad-opposing-ukraine-aid-rnc-debate-preshow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ad campaign<\/a> opposing the Ukraine funding.<\/p>\n<p>Clifford \u200dMay, the president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said \u200bthere has always been a small group of isolationists in the GOP, but this group has been supplemented recently by some Republicans who either underestimate\u2062 Russian \u2064president Vladimir Putin or dislike Ukraine because of Hunter Biden&#8217;s influence-peddling in the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some conservatives \u200cdon&#8217;t understand \u2063who Putin is. They think he&#8217;s \u2064a defender\u2063 of Christendom,&#8221; said May. &#8220;His mission, and I think he \u2063feels\u200b this strongly, is to restore \u200bthe Russian empire, which for a time was rebranded as the Soviet empire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy, the only candidate who during the debate \u200bobjected\u2064 to the aid, was booed\u200d by the audience when he argued that\u200b &#8220;Ukraine\u200d is not a\u200b priority for the United States of America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that\u2062 this is disastrous, that we are protecting against an invasion \u2062across somebody else&#8217;s border, when we should use those same military resources to prevent \u200dthe invasion of our \u200dsouthern border in the United \u2063States of America,&#8221; said Ramaswamy.<\/p>\n<p>May said Ramaswamy&#8217;s position on Ukraine is likely an attempt to peel off votes from a segment of former president Donald Trump&#8217;s base, rather than a serious \u200bpolicy view.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My \u2062guess is he&#8217;s not looking carefully \u200cat the Ukraine-Russia equation as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-lays-out-his-middle-east-policy-supporting-israel\/\" title=\"DeSantis backs Israel in Middle East policy.\">foreign \u2062policy<\/a>, but\u200b looking where \u2062he can drive his poll numbers up,&#8221; said May.<\/p>\n<p>Other candidates on stage slammed Ramaswamy&#8217;s position, with former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley saying Ramaswamy has &#8220;no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nikki-haley-at-rjc-biden-admin-cant-be-trusted-to-stop-iran-nuclear-threat\/\" title=\"Nikki Haley at RJC: Biden Admin Can\u2019t Be Trusted to Stop Iran Nuclear Threat\">foreign policy experience<\/a>,\u2064 and it shows.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Former vice president \u200cMike Pence argued\u200c that the United States can protect its borders and \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/neocon-energy-republican-candidates-debate-audience-back-ukraine-against-russia\/\" title=\"Neocon Energy: GOP Candidates, Debate Crowd Support Ukraine vs Russia\">conduct\u2063 foreign policy<\/a> at the same time, saying that Ramaswamy \u200bhas a &#8220;pretty small view of\u2064 the greatest nation on earth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can do\u2062 both, Vivek,&#8221;\u200c said Pence. &#8220;We&#8217;ve done both. We&#8217;ve been the leader of the\u2063 free world and the arsenal \u200dof democracy for years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy shot back: &#8220;I have a news flash. The USSR does not exist anymore. It fell\u200b back in\u2062 1990.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry if I \u200cinsulted \u200b [Putin] \u2063 by calling him\u2062 a communist,&#8221;\u2063 responded Pence. &#8220;He is a dictator and a murderer, and the United States of America needs \u200dto\u200c stand against authoritarianism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Published \u200cunder:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/debate\/\" title=\"View all posts in Debate\">Debate<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/foreign-policy\/\" title=\"View all posts in Foreign Policy\">Foreign Policy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/gop-primary\/\" title=\"View all posts in GOP Primary\">GOP Primary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/isolationism\/\" title=\"View all posts in isolationism\">Isolationism<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/mike-pence\/\" title=\"View all posts in Mike Pence\">Mike\u2063 Pence<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/nikki-haley\/\" title=\"View all posts in Nikki Haley\">Nikki Haley<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/republicans\/\" title=\"View all posts in Republicans\">Republicans<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/russia\/\" title=\"View all posts in Russia\">Russia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/ukraine\/\" title=\"View all posts in Ukraine\">Ukraine<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/ukraine-invasion\/\" title=\"View all posts in Ukraine Invasion\">Ukraine Invasion<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/vivek-ramaswamy\/\" title=\"View all posts in Vivek Ramaswamy\">Vivek Ramaswamy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/vladimir-putin\/\" title=\"View all posts in Vladimir Putin\">Vladimir Putin<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>supports the party&#8217;s isolationist tide, while the rest firmly rejected it. 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