The latest request of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, elected there after the leftist revolution in 2014 and supported by a billionaire media oligarch, concerns modern funds from the West in the amount of $50 billion and a personal visit by Joe Biden. The White House responded “no,” but only for the part about Biden’s visit.
Biden and Congress have already given 13.6 billion US dollars to liberal Ukrainian politicians. But Zelensky is back and asking for more than three times as much in grants or loan guarantees from the United States this week, and there’s no end in sight to how much it will ultimately cost Americans.
Biden has drawn the United States into this conflict far more deeply than Congress ever authorized him to do. By sending weapons to Ukraine, Biden wrongly exposed our country and Americans to deadly retaliation from Russiaas Russian President Vladimir Putin recently warned, it may come in unexpected ways.
Some Republican candidates for office in the upcoming primaries do not support it, unlike politicians entrenched in Washington. One of the skeptics JD Vance was just endorsed by Trump for a key open U.S. Senate seat in Ohio, whose primary election will be held in just two weeks.
Retiring Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) is co-chair of the Senate Ukraine Caucus. A crowded Republican field of many talented candidates is vying to replace Portman as the Russia-Ukraine war escalates.
Many Ukrainian immigrants settled in Ohio beginning around 1900, but most assimilated into American culture, like other waves of European immigrants of the period. It seems doubtful that many GOP voters support Biden’s misguided approach to this conflict.
The anti-Trump candidate, state Sen. Matt Dolan, is polling a distant fourth in this race. On Monday, he appeared on the Today show and said he wanted the United States to accept 100,000 Ukrainian refugees “to start with.”
This approach could result in the United States accepting more than a million refugeesespecially if Democrats think they will vote for their proposal. Poland has accepted over 2.5 million Ukrainian refugees and is trying to relocate them.
Last Friday, Donald Trump enthusiastically endorsed JD Vance, who criticized Biden for spending so much time in Ukraine. In an interview with Steve Bannon on February 19, Vance stated that “I think it’s ridiculous that we’re focusing on this border in Ukraine.”
Trump made a bold endorsement of Vance as he was losing third place with a polling average of 7 points behind the front-runner. Vance is a conservative populist, like several other candidates Trump has endorsed, and Trump is once again proving that he is not interested in supporting only frontrunners in the polls.
A Marine veteran previously endorsed by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), Vance continues to campaign rejuvenating manufacturing in Ohiowhere the auto parts and steel industries once thrived. Both are ravaged by false free trade policies that have also devastated neighboring countries.
Vance draws a contrast with rival candidate Mike Gibbons, who declared last year that the middle class somehow does not pay its fair share of taxes. Vance responded that Republicans should defend “middle-class people who can raise a family and do it on one income.”
Vance wants to break up Big Tech, which would lend a hand end the stifling censorship emanating from the Left Coast. Even the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, can’t stop the censorship imposed by the liberals who control Twitter as his board took a poison pill to thwart his takeover attempt.
Vance fully supports Trump’s agenda to end illegal immigration at our southern border and build the wall. The recent grim story of how smugglers, known as “coyotes,” left a woman trapped in a rope while trying to scale the border wall in Arizona to her death shows just how ruthless the immigration smuggling operation is.
Several congressmen, also taking part in the primaries, openly spoke out against giving left-wing politicians in Ukraine a blank check at the expense of Americans. Both Reps. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) have been leaders in opposing Biden’s senseless entanglement in the Russia-Ukraine war.
Marine Le Pen, once marginalized as an “extreme right-winger,” has skyrocketed in popularity in France by calling for a refrain from escalating hostilities with Russia. She stunningly passed the final round of the French presidential election and warns against pushing Russia into a closer alliance with communist China, which already opposes Hollywood’s liberal cultural influence.
China recently ordered a film studio to remove pro-LGBTQ dialogue from the children’s animation Fantastic Beasts: Dumbledore’s Secrets, and the studio obediently gave in to the communists. This contrasts with how Disney today aggressively challenges American cultural norms, in contrast to the patriotism of its founder Walt Disney.
John and Andy Schlafly are the sons of Phyllis Schlafly (1924–2016) and run the continuing Phyllis Schlafly Eagles writing and policy work.
