Militaristic Isolationism

   What used to be the party of strong foreign policy has become the party of moral equivocation. A perfect example is Tucker Carlson excusing the murderous war criminal Vladimir Putin by saying that "leadership involves killing. " Similarly, Donald Trump wants to act as though his criminal prosecutions are equal to Putin murdering Navalny.

"Tough" in the lexicon of Trump supporters always means unethical or illegal. Wanting to kill the wives and children of terrorists isn't a war crime, it's "tough. "Running your business in a way that's dishonest and semi-legal is also "tough. "

Estase assumes that Orange Blatherskite sees Russia's invasion of Ukraine as "tough " too. It's amusing to see the disparity between the way Republicans treat the first front of World War III and its second front. Republicans want to let the people of Ukraine twist in the wind, but they are falling all over themselves to arm Israel against a Russian proxy, HAMAS. 

The MAGA/NTC view of the world doesn't recognize the changes to international order resulting from World War II. The UN Charter considers collective self defense legally preferable. This is why the United States needs NATO. 

The assumption that America can practice some sort of militaristic isolationism is one reason Ukraine is being hung out to dry. At some point, America will need allies, but no one will help such an unreliable country that can only be counted on to care about itself.