Will the GOP’s Trumpist Wing Persist in Its Embrace of Putin

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“Russia is a Christian nationalist nation. … I actually support Putin’s right to protect his people and always put his people first but also protect their Christian values,” Lauren Witzke, the right-wing Republican nominee for Senate from Delaware in 2020, said this week in an interview that was picked up by Right Wing Watch. “I identify more with Putin’s Christian values than I do with Joe Biden.”

Now many on the right wing are parroting Moscow’s lies about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, claiming that Russia has legitimate national security interests there or that Ukraine’s government is so corrupt it doesn’t deserve U.S. support.

https://theintercept.com/2022/02/25/russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-trump/

 

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Putin did not move to invade Ukraine while Trump was president, and it is unclear why he waited until now, with Biden in the White House. But it seems possible that he held off to see if Trump would be reelected in 2020. Throughout his time in office, Trump talked about withdrawing the United States from NATO, the military alliance that guarantees the defense of Western Europe against Moscow. He reportedly confided to aides that he would wait until his second term to pull out of the alliance, to avoid any political blowback during the 2020 election.

 

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“Russia is a Christian nationalist nation. … I actually support Putin’s right to protect his people and always put his people first but also protect their Christian values,” Lauren Witzke, the right-wing Republican nominee for Senate from Delaware in 2020, said this week in an interview that was picked up by Right Wing Watch. “I identify more with Putin’s Christian values than I do with Joe Biden.”

Now many on the right wing are parroting Moscow’s lies about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, claiming that Russia has legitimate national security interests there or that Ukraine’s government is so corrupt it doesn’t deserve U.S. support.

https://theintercept.com/2022/02/25/russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-trump/

The GOP are all about embracing fascist dictators because they hate gays and minorities as well. That's why Tucker and the GOP love Victor Orban and that witch they just elected in Italy.