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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone explain in a non partisan way the Republican talking points on why they want to defund the war in Ukraine and not Israel? [/quote]

[b]Why MAGA Loves Russia and Hates Ukraine[/b]
Feb. 8, 2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/08/opinion/why-maga-loves-russia-and-hates-ukraine.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

1. Remember the  conspiracy theory that was prevalent at the time of Donald Trump’s first impeachment? Trump asked Zelensky about a “CrowdStrike” server allegedly being held in Ukraine.
This is a reference to a longstanding [u]MAGA claim that it was Ukraine and not Russia that interfered with the 2016 election. There’s no evidence of any kind to support the allegation[/u], and Trump’s own advisers repeatedly debunked it.

MAGA social media Continues to speculate about evil manipulation by CrowdStrike and secret maneuvers by Ukrainians — often inflamed by Mr. Trump’s own statements.”

2. MAGA is incensed that Hunter Biden had a lucrative business relationship with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma.  MAGA found itself with the perfect villain to counter the Trump-Russia narrative. [u]Trump wasn’t in bed with a hostile power in Russia; the Democrats were in bed with a hostile power in Ukraine.[/u]

3. [u]To MAGA, Putin isn’t just innocent; he’s admirable.[/u] Heroic, even, in some ways. He isn’t defined as an authoritarian dictator at the helm of one of America’s chief geopolitical rivals. No, he’s defined as an anti-woke leader who defends Christian civilization by taking on the decadent West. Putin “is not the president of a feminist NGO. He is not a transgender-rights activist. He is not an ombudsman appointed by the United Nations to make and deliver slide shows about green energy.

In 2021, The American Conservative’s Rod Dreher praised a Putin speech condemning the West and said that Putin and Hungary’s Viktor Orban were “completely clear and completely correct on the society-destroying nature of wokeness and postliberal leftism.”

Nonetheless, Dreher has unequivocally condemned Putin’s invasion.

…. 
So basically, like the Big Lie that Trump won the 2020 election, it is manufactured nonsense to justify Trump’s embrace of the world’s worst war criminal as a good thing 
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