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Former Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) warned successful a code Thursday that U.S. negotiators trying to extremity the warfare successful Ukraine are headed for a “Russia wins, America loses” header if they hold to a woody that achieves lone “illusory peace.”
McConnell made his comments successful absorption to caller events, notably President Trump’s nationalist scolding of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky astatine the White House and a Kremlin connection that the Trump administration’s overseas argumentation pivot connected the warfare “largely coincides with our vision.”
“When American officials tribunal the favour of an adversary astatine the disbursal of allies … When they mock our friends to impressment an force … They uncover their embarrassing naivete,” McConnell said successful remarks Thursday portion accepting the Star of Ukraine Award, the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation’s highest honor.
“Unless we alteration course, the result we’re headed for contiguous is the 1 we tin slightest afford: a header that reads ‘Russia wins, America loses,'" helium said.
“An illusory bid that shreds America’s credibility, leaves Ukraine nether threat, weakens our alliances, and emboldens our enemies,” helium said.
McConnell invoked failed efforts to appease Nazi Germany earlier World War II, quoting President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s informing that “no antheral tin tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.”
He reiterated that sending subject assistance to Ukraine is acold little costly than becoming embroiled successful a warfare successful Europe.
And helium questioned whether Trump’s advisers are afloat committed to subject deterrence and the rule of “peace done strength.”
“Too galore of those who usage it — peculiarly among the president’s advisers — don’t look acceptable to summon the resources and nationalist volition it requires,” helium said.
“We person a batch of enactment to bash connected this front. The ‘resolve of the West’ volition necessitate that we really basal with the West. Instead of mocking European allies and partners, it’ll mean gathering a stronger trans-Atlantic alliance,” helium argued.
Trump has repeatedly criticized different subordinate countries of NATO for not spending much connected their defence budgets, and members of the president’s nationalist information squad disparaged the subject capabilities of European allies connected a radical chat connected Signal, which included a writer for The Atlantic.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth slammed Europe for “free-loading” connected the United States’s subject spot successful the Red Sea, calling it “PATHETIC.”
