These are not serious people.
They are not moral people. They are the
Guilty Men of our era, more morally culpable than Chamberlain, Halifax, and the rest of pacifist magical thinkers in the days before World War II.
The entire charade of elaborate maneuvers in Washington in the last few weeks over the border issue has resolved down to a single cause: the desire by a meaningful and growing fraction of the Republican party to ensure Vladimir Putin’s victory in Ukraine.
Today, the majority of the Senate and all of the House Republicans are eagerly paving the road for Russian tanks to enter Kiev, slaughter the Ukrainians at scale, and watch gleefully as Putin reassembles the lost prize of the old Soviet empire. At the rate things are going, don’t be shocked if MAGAs from the House GOP start proposing military aid to Russia.
Trump is primarily to blame for this as part of his generally corrosive effect on a party once centered on national security. Still, more and more Republican elected officials are making it quite evident that they’re not on the side of NATO or any kind of American interests.