{"id":589389,"date":"2023-09-01T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ramaswamy-isolates-himself-on-ukraine-with-proposed-putin-pact\/"},"modified":"2023-09-01T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T09:30:00","slug":"ramaswamy-isolates-himself-on-ukraine-with-proposed-putin-pact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ramaswamy-isolates-himself-on-ukraine-with-proposed-putin-pact\/","title":{"rendered":"#Ramaswamy isolates himself on Ukraine with proposed Putin pact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/08\/ramaswamyvivek_haleynikki_GOPdebate_AP.jpeg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>When the Fox <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> hosts asked the eight Republican presidential candidates on the debate stage last week who would not support continued funding for Ukraine, only Vivek Ramaswamy raised his hand.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old entrepreneur and political newcomer has laid out a radical stance on foreign policy, featuring what his critics see as a Putin-friendly proposal to end the Ukraine war.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Ramaswamy <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/a-viable-realism-and-revival-doctrine\/\">wants to cede territory taken by Russia <\/a>in eastern Ukraine in return for Moscow exiting its military alliance with China. He would also block Ukraine\u2019s candidacy to the Western security alliance NATO and end U.S. sanctions on Russia.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a position that has found little public support from fellow Republicans, but Americans are growing more tired of financing the war. And the two leading candidates for the GOP nomination, former President Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, have shared Ramaswamy\u2019s skepticism of U.S. support for Kyiv.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Justin Logan, the director of defense and foreign policy studies at the conservative think tank Cato Institute, said Ramaswamy is echoing popular <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">theme<\/a>s presented by former Fox News host Tucker Carlson about the Ukraine war \u201cpushing Russians into the arms of the Chinese.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would suspect that you would see a continued erosion of Republican support for funding Ukraine,\u201c Logan said. \u201cAnd then independents, who are not as partisan on the issue one way or the other, kind of calling balls and strikes, [asking if this is] good money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Logan, however, said ceding territory is \u201ca little bit less popular than these more abstract ideas of breaking apart Sino-Russian alliances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recent polling has shown that Americans are about evenly split on whether to continue sending Ukraine money, as some Republicans argue that tax dollars should be focused on domestic issues like disaster responses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Meena Bose, the chairwoman of presidential studies at Hofstra University, said Ramaswamy is speaking to Americans frustrated with conditions at home and delivering them a \u201cvery simplistic\u201d foreign policy message.<\/p>\n<p>But extended scrutiny could break apart his policy platform, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not clear that this will hold up,\u201d Bose said. \u201cThis will be a topic that Ramaswamy will be pressed on in a lot more detail.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>He\u2019s already come under fire. On the debate stage last week in Milwaukee, Wis., Ramaswamy\u2019s foreign policy stances came under attack from former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Vice President Mike Pence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Haley called out Ramaswamy\u2019s lack of foreign policy experience, saying his refusal to back Ukraine was playing into the hands of the \u201cmurderer\u201d Russian President Vladimir Putin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe wants to hand Ukraine to Russia,\u201d Haley said. \u201cYou don\u2019t do that to friends \u2026 Ukraine is a front line of defense. Putin has said once Russia takes Ukraine, Poland and the Baltics are next. That\u2019s a world war. We are trying to prevent war.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Ramaswamy said the U.S. should refocus military strength at the U.S.-Mexico border.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this is disastrous,\u201d Ramaswamy said of Ukraine support, \u201dthat we are protecting against an invasion across somebody else\u2019s border when we should use those same military resources to prevent the invasion of our own southern border.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy said in an email to The Hill that \u201cceasing Russia\u2019s growing military alliance with China\u201d should be the foremost priority after Moscow and Beijing <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fmprc.gov.cn\/mfa_eng\/wjdt_665385\/2649_665393\/200107\/t20010724_679026.html\">signed a treaty<\/a> in 2001 to establish closer relations and cemented the bond in 2022.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThe Sino-Russia alliance presents the greatest military risk the U.S. has ever faced. Russia and China together outmatch the U.S. in every area of great power competition,\u201d Ramaswamy said in the statement. \u201cBut in absence of Russia\u2019s support, China would have to think twice before risking war with the U.S. over Taiwan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As part of the deal, Russia would \u201cpermanently suspend all military-technical cooperation and joint military exercises with China,\u201d unpause a major nuclear pact with the U.S. and pull back its nuclear weapons abroad, Ramaswamy said.<\/p>\n<p>Along with reestablishing diplomatic ties, Ramaswamy says the plan would bring Russia \u201cinto the security infrastructure of Europe, reducing future catalysts that Russia could use as pretexts to invade its neighbors.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear if Russia would even accept such a deal. Ukraine and NATO allies are also unlikely to back those terms, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky repeatedly saying that Kyiv will not cede any Ukrainian territory in a peace deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy\u2019s proposal echoes Trump\u2019s claim that he is the one person capable of ending the war within 24 hours. The former president, however, has stayed away from offering details.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Genovese, the president of the Global Policy Institute at Loyola Marymount University, said Trump, as the de facto leader of the GOP, can afford to be nonspecific. It also has allowed him to avoid the blowback now facing Ramaswamy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cWhen Ramaswamy set out the plan, that\u2019s when his whole argument collapsed, because it\u2019s basically conceding defeat in giving up Ukraine to the Russians,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s everything that we would not as a country normally stand for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump can get away with that because he will be unspecific,\u201d Genovese continued. \u201cRamaswamy being so specific, he has laid out a plan for disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis faced backlash earlier this year when he said the Ukraine-Russia war was a \u201cterritorial dispute.\u201d He declined to raise his hand on the debate stage last week, indicating he would support Ukraine, though he said Europe should be footing more of the bill.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The candidates appear to be tapping into a growing desire among Americans to end the war, or at least scale back U.S. spending on it, but the divide among GOP candidates points to a broader debate over how America can help that happen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump has suggested withholding arms from Ukraine if it isn\u2019t moving toward peace, while President Biden insists that America should continue arming Ukraine until it ousts Russia or decides to negotiate an end to the war.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The partisan divide among voters is starting to show too. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/08\/04\/politics\/cnn-poll-ukraine\/index.html\">An Aug. 4 CNN poll<\/a> found 62 percent of Democrats support continued funding for Ukraine, while 71 percent of Republicans oppose it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the coming months, the Ukraine question is likely to be influenced by Kyiv\u2019s failures or successes on the battlefield. In its ongoing counteroffensive, Ukraine is struggling to achieve a breakthrough, as Ramaswamy pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>Congress is also gearing up for a spending fight that could signal whether the strong support for Ukraine, which has so far held up on both sides of the aisle, will continue.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy, meanwhile, faces an uphill battle in the election. He saw an increase of unfavorability among Republicans in a poll after the debate and remains third in the race, behind DeSantis and Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Bose, of Hofstra University, said it was unclear where primary voters will be in early 2024 on Ukraine. But she noted that \u201cworking with Ukraine to end the war could potentially become part of the Republican Party platform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout a doubt, the desire to see an end to the war in Ukraine strikes a chord for many Americans,\u201d she said. \u201cHow that\u2019s achieved is an entirely different story.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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