LOS ANGELES.–Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), 82, told the Financial Times that Trump “will not be made great again” by ending the Ukraine War, something McConnell thinks is necessary to preventing WW III. McConnell Support 82-year-old President Joe Biden’s war in Ukraine believing that it stops 72-yer-old Russian President Vladimir Putin from taking over more European countries. McConnell believes Biden’s excuses for funding the Ukraine proxy war with the Kremlin that it stops Russia from advancing on more European countries. Biden has no facts to back up his assertions, capitalizing in the U.S. Congress on longstanding anti-Russian sentiment. McConnell compared today’s atmosphere to that of the 1930s when Germany’s Adolf Hitler began conquering European countries. McConnell is so off-the-wall there’s few that are willing to call him out for spewing such rubbish because of his age and public seizures, freezing in from of audiences.
McConnell had his run-ins with Trump while he was president, working with other never Trumpers to oppose Trump’s America First policies. McConnell sees them as an example of the kind of isolationism that got the U.S. into WW I and WW II because of a lack of foreign involvement before wars broke out in Europe. “We’re in a very, very dangerouos world right now, reminiscent of before WW II,” McConnell said. “Even the slogan is the same ‘America First.’ That was what they said in the ‘30s,” McConnell said. McConnell’s too wrapped up in his own bubble to realize that the greatest danger to world peace is the Ukraine War. Biden and Ukraine’s 46-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky keep provoking Putin by firing U.S. missiles deep into Russian territory. Biden approved air strikes into Russian territory Nov. 18, escalating the current war.
McConnell who’s lost his leadership position to Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) has only sour grapes, supporting Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, though refusing to admit it. McConnell has nothing good to say about Trump because he can’t stand the fact that Trump is president-elect, completing the most remarkable political comeback in U.S. history. McConnell never had Trump’s charisma or following, content to hide behind the Senate’s arcane procedures to advance his agenda or to oppose Trump. What’s McConnell talking about that keeping the Ukraine War going is in American’s national security interests? Repeating Biden’s talking points is strange for the former GOP Senate Majority Leader who wholeheartedly backs the Ukraine War with Russia.
McConnell claims the Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance don’t share Ronald Reagan’s “peace through strength,” only talk about strength. “To most American voters, I think the simple answer is stay out of it,” McCaonnell said. That was the argument made in the ‘30s and that just won’t work,” McConnell, said making another false comparison. Putin isn’t picking off European countries like Hitler did in the 1930s. He invaded Ukraine Feb. 24, 2022 because Biden refused to discuss new security arrangement for months, continuing to arm Ukraine to the teeth with lethal U.S. weapons. Putin’s was provoked into invading by Biden who kept threatening to put Ukraine into NATO where it would enjoy Article 5 military protections. Putin said he went into Ukraine to stop the militarization that threatened Russian national security requiring a “special military operation.”
McConnell barks up the wrong tree pushing to continue Biden’s Ukraine War policy. Trump opposes the war because it drains the U.S. Treasury and does nothing to deter Russia from any possible ambitions in Europe or anywhere else. “Within the party Ronald Reagan once led so capably, it is increasingly fashionable to suggest that the sort of global leadership he modeled is no longer America’s place,” McConnell said Dec. 7 at the Reagan Global Defense Forum. What’s McConnell talking about? Reagan would have never backed a war against the Russian Federation. What’s Reagan have to do with anything related to Biden’s reckless, destructive and costly proxy war in Ukraine. Ukraine has lost the war and continues to destroy itself and lose sovereign territory. McConnell panders to the anti-Trump crowd in the Republican Party but has no influence.
McConnell has been long overdue for retirement, only recently fallen again injuring his face and wrist. He’s frozen in a kind of seizure in public several times in the last few years attesting to his declining health. Yet, to the bitter end, McConnell takes his shots at Trump, this time around defending Biden’s reckless, destructive and costly proxy war in Ukraine with the Kremlin. Reagan would have never gone to war with the Kremlin, he would have worked out whatever problems with Russian leadership. Biden ignored diplomacy because of his well-known cognitive impairments prevent him from engaging in normal diplomacy. Trump isn’t taking U.S. foreign policy back to isolationist days, he’s trying to stop the senseless bloodshed for an unending war. McConnell thinks war with the Kremlin helps U.S. foreign policy and national security. Trump thinks the opposite.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
