Sympathy for the Devil

Looking at monetary cost instead of human rights or freedom is what passes for Republican foreign policy now. 

     Estase feels real nostalgia for the days when Republicans were strong on foreign policy and tough on Communism.  The viruses of isolationism and Jacksonian Nationalism are now combined with a ridiculous urge to blame the behavior of a foreign despot on Joe Biden. 

     Moonbat Taylor-Greene responded to Putin's disgusting invasion of Ukraine by tweeting that it was terrific that the Communist dictator was "standing up " to the U.S.  She then addressed obscenities to NATO, our State Department,  and our Department of Defense. 

     Such amazing foreign policy wisdom and patriotism is not limited to Orange Blatherskite,  Tucker Carlson,  or the mentally diminished representative from Georgia.  Fox News has invited on numerous ersatz foreign policy experts like Fred Fleitz and Christian Whiton.  On his March 7th broadcast,  Jesse Watters (whose first response to the invasion was a craven worry that Ukrainian refugees might be resettled in the U.S.), made a disgusting display of blaming the U.S. for the war.  Watters,  a lame Bill O'Reilly wannabe,  always had a Colbert Report feel to him.   If Orange Blatherskite were caught with a big stash of kiddie porn,  Jesse Watters would have claimed it was for research into the imaginary Deep State conspiracy to protect an underground network of pedophile Democrats.  Apparently Watters agrees with Josh Hawley that we should have agreed to Putin's demand that Ukraine never be allowed to join NATO,  because Watters basically accused our government of goading Putin into this war.  He prefaced a video of H-> on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow show by saying that Democrats intended to turn Ukraine into a "killing ground ."  Not unpredictably,  that wasn't really what Hillary Clinton said. 

      Estase understands that Fox News exists to blame everything on Joe Biden.   On the other hand,  it should be ashamed to remove the locus of responsibility for the war in Ukraine from Vladimir Putin.   There is no way around the fact that Tucker Carlson and Jesse Watters are offering sympathy to evil war criminal Vladimir Putin.