Jackie Calmes: The Republican Party can't decide if it's for Ukraine or not
by Jackie Calmes, Los Angeles Times
Feb 23, 2023
3 minutes
For years Joe Biden has told audiences, "This is not your father's Republican Party." He's right. And perhaps nothing better illustrates the shift than the party's eroding support for America's global role as leader of the free world and its embrace of Vladimir Putin's Russia.
Russia's year-old war on Ukraine is the crucible that will test which strain could come to define the 21st century Republican Party: its traditional internationalism or "America First" isolationism. Let's hope it's the former, for the sake of the nation and the international order.
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