[sebazzz]

They literally said: “This makes great TV” - and both right-wing Fox and the Russian media are cheering.

It worries me that no-one in the Republican Party looks at it and says: Russia is our enemy right, why are we doing exactly what they want and benefits them?

[masklinn]

> It worries me that no-one in the Republican Party looks at it and says: Russia is our enemy right, why are we doing exactly what they want and benefits them?

Why would they? GOP senators literally spent independence day in russia a few years back. Multiple GOP congressmembers voted against various resolutions to support the people of ukraine[0], condemn russia for its kidnapping of ukrainian children[1], or direct the administration to collect evidence of russian war crimes[2].

The GOP has had a strongly pro-putin wing for a decade, and Trump has been in russia's pocket for longer than that: ignoring claims that he's a hard KGB asset, the trump family has been reliant on russian money (investments and loans) for at least two decades. With trump being the uncontested leader of the GOP, the party is very much pro russia.

[0]: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202251?Page=3

[1]: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202488

[2]: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2022121

[n4r9]

I believe this is exactly what sebazzz finds worrying. Combined with the fact that:

* Russia will betray the GOP in an instant if it serves their geopolitical goals

* Russia is increasingly allying with Iran, North Korea and probably China

* Russia doing well out of the Ukraine invasion will embolden China to move in on Taiwan and potentially other Pacific territories

[masklinn]

> I believe this is exactly what sebazzz finds worrying.

But none of these are anything new. This is all years old stuff. It does not make sense that it "worries", either you've never cared before and things have not changed, or you should be several steps beyond "worry".

[n4r9]

It's fair to be more worried than usual in light of recent geopolitical developments.

[lyu07282]

But the votes you cited have 3, 9 and 7 republicans? How do you arrive at "the party is very much pro russia" if for all this time republicans have always voted for Ukraine military aid? What about the other almost 200 people? The pro-Putin freakshow has the White House sure, but can he really turn the entire republican party to side with our enemy? Against all the interests of the military industrial complex that pays for all their campaigns no less.

[disgruntledphd2]

It looks like he can, to be honest. It's pretty sad.

[zo1]

Russia is an enemy of the Left and "wokeness" specifically at this point, for sure. I'd oddly posit that Russia is at least semi-aligned with the "sane & conservative" values that the MAGA movement represents, so it all makes sense.

Personally, I think all Western nations need to be in partnership-with and promoting Democracy in a relatively-sane and ethnically-white country like Russia. Short of a few eastern-European countries and Israel, Russia has until recently been the only such country that hasn't fallen prey to "pretty please invade us we'll even pay you" kind of left-wing socialism that's fallen upon most of the west. A movement that oddly hasn't fallen-upon any non-majority-white country around the world.