{"id":56058,"date":"2023-10-23T00:01:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T00:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56058"},"modified":"2023-10-23T00:01:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T00:01:13","slug":"partisan-fight-over-aid-to-fight-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56058","title":{"rendered":"Partisan fight over aid to fight Russia?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>You live\u00a0 long enough and you&#8217;re liable to see all kinds of manifestations of principle you once thought were set in steel-enforced concrete.<\/p>\n<p>Take the U.S. position regarding aggression by Russian armed forces &#8230; for example.<\/p>\n<p>Russia invaded Ukraine a year-plus ago. President Biden said this country would stand foursquare against the Russian aggressors. He vowed to stitch together a strong alliance of nations to resist the Russians. He succeeded.<\/p>\n<p>We have helped Ukraine turn back the Russians. Ukrainian armed forces launched a counteroffensive. You&#8217;d think the Democratic U.S. president would enjoy the support of long-standing anti-Russian pols who belong to the Republican Party. Right? Guess again, pilgrim.<\/p>\n<p>We now have the MAGA crowd resisting efforts to back Ukraine &#8230; for reasons that totally escape me! It has to be that their guy, the former POTUS, thinks the sun rises and sets on Russian goon\/strongman Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>The MAGA cult seemingly doesn&#8217;t believe as much in democratic principles as their political forebears &#8212; the real Republicans who fought the Russians and the Soviet Union with a passion. Then again, I don&#8217;t consider the MAGA morons to be real Republicans. They are political perverts who have twisted longstanding U.S. policy into something unrecognizable.<\/p>\n<p>It is an evolution I never envisioned I would see.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You live\u00a0 long enough and you&#8217;re liable to see all kinds of manifestations of principle you once thought were set in steel-enforced concrete. Take the U.S. position regarding aggression by Russian armed forces &#8230; for example. Russia invaded Ukraine a year-plus ago. President Biden said this country would stand foursquare against the Russian aggressors. He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56058\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Partisan fight over aid to fight Russia?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9597,13],"tags":[2505,7419,7018,9899],"class_list":["post-56058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-joe-biden","category-national-news","tag-joe-biden","tag-maga","tag-putin","tag-ukraine-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56059,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56058\/revisions\/56059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}