acknowledge that there is a fundamental division in your republican party right now between the america first trump supporters, who essentially have a message of american isolationism, and the old style security hawks who probably supported the bushes and reagan and their approach to security matters, who are much more interventionist. and there are colleagues of yours in this house of representatives, like matt rosendale, like paul gosar, who even today, three months into this war, are essentially saying there is no us interest in backing ukraine and volodymyr zelensky. what do you think of those people? well, ithink, you know, we re a very diverse party and it s good to have diverse opinion. but honestly, i also belong to people that say, you know what, we need to be smart when we engage in different conflicts, and to go and rebuild and spend a bunch of money in building democracy like in afghanistan, it wasn t a wise idea. i think we have to be smart where we spend money,
there is 80 tomahawks, they re going to fly to your base. he didn t move further. what happened in israel will happen in peace, abraham accords. when he said that europe is too dependent on russia and he was forced in germany to actually have lng terminals, and biden s, you know, pulled out of that when he was actually putting pressure and sanctions on nord stream 2. so there are a lot of talk, but actions of foreign policy was a big deterrent to further aggression, and i don t think he will ever get the credit for that. and i don t agree with him on every issue. but on foreign policy, his strength and unpredictability actually was very effective to deter a lot of aggressors, including putin. i just wonder whether you would acknowledge that there is a fundamental division in your republican party right now between the america first trump supporters, who essentially have a message of american isolationism, and the old style security hawks who probably supported the bushes and reagan an
is too dependent on russia and he was forced in germany to actually have lng terminals, and biden s, you know, pulled out of that when he was actually putting pressure and sanctions on nord stream 2. so there are a lot of talk, but actions of foreign policy was a big deterrent to further aggression, and i don t think he will ever get the credit for that. and i don t agree with him on every issue. but on foreign policy, his strength and unpredictability actually was very effective to deter a lot of aggressors, including putin. i just wonder whether you would acknowledge that there is a fundamental division in your republican party right now between the america first trump supporters, who essentially have a message of american isolationism, and the old style security hawks who probably supported the bushes and reagan and their approach to security matters, who are much more interventionist. and there are colleagues of yours in this house of representatives, like matt rosendale, like paul
the credit for that. and i don t agree with him on every issue. but on foreign policy, his strength and unpredictability actually was very effective to deter a lot of aggressors, including putin. i just wonder whether you would acknowledge that there is a fundamental division in your republican party right now between the america first trump supporters, who essentially have a message of american isolationism, and the old style security hawks who probably supported the bushes and reagan and their approach to security matters, who are much more interventionist. and there are colleagues of yours in this house of representatives, like matt rosendale, like paul gosar, who even today, three months into this war, are essentially saying there is no us interest in backing ukraine and vladimir zelensky. what do you think of those people? well, ithink, you know, we re a very diverse party and it s good to have diverse opinion.
of international relations it looks like it is looking increasingly isolated. kabul. increasingly isolated. kabul. . , increasingly isolated. kabul. , ., , kabul. biden has been largely disengaged kabul. biden has been largely disengaged especially - kabul. biden has been largely disengaged especially from i kabul. biden has been largely- disengaged especially from some major international crisis. as well as what russia is doing. but this was a moment whereby that needed to seize it, says to the world and certainly to those across europe whose spines needed to stiffen a bit, we re going to pursue this aggressively and not allow vladimir putin to block over the rights and territory of other countries. but after afghanistan, a lot of america s influence and credibility has been badly damaged and those who hoped american isolationism would end with donald trump, with disappointed to see this president also abandoning some of our allies.