not as strong. initially in the first weeks of the war the republican party seemed to revert to its historic hawk i wishness on foreign policy, many of its older guard are vociferously anti-putin and pro-ukrainian but that would not describe the position of the man who is still its most popular leader, donald trump. who has praised putin since the invasion. why shouldn t i root for russia, which i am? fox news highest ranked leader tucker carlson who two years ago declared he was on russia s side against the battle for ukraine has repeated russian propaganda about alleged american sponsored bio weapons labs in ukraine. it s worth noting there are some mitigating factors at play here. viktor orban has manipulated hungary s democracy in ways that give him structural advantages. in 2010 he gave citizenship to 2.4 million ethnic hungriness living abroad and portrayed
frustrated by the hungarian leader s cozying up to putin volodymyr zelenskyy actually denounced orban, calling him virtually the only one in europe to openly support mr. putin. it didn t work. in america one sees similar forces at work though they are not as strong. initially in the first weeks of the war the republican party seemed to revert to its historic hawkishness on foreign policy, many of its older guard are vociferously anti-putin and pro-ukrainian but that would not describe the position of the man who is still its most popular leader, donald trump. who has praised putin since the invasion. why shouldn t i root for russia, which i am? fox news highest ranked leader tucker carlson who two years ago declared he was on russia s side against the battle for ukraine has repeated russian propaganda about alleged american sponsored bio weapons labs in ukraine. it s worth noting there are some mitigating factors at play here. viktor orban has manipulated hungary s democracy in wa