New York TimesJonathan Weisman attempts to make the Republican Party appear extremist or hypocritical in relation to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. On March 10 he wrote “Republicans, Once Harsh Ukraine Critics, Pivot to Strong Support.”
In the final years of Donald J. Trump’s presidency, Republicans portrayed Ukraine as an Eastern European Wild West run by nefarious oligarchs and unlawful politicians, a bad actor that sought to tamper in American elections and channel millions of dollars to Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s son.
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These voices are now fadingThe Republican Party’s bulk tries to stay on the right side. amid a brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine….
It is also the Times As we will see, it is itself. Weisman allowed a Democratic senator to play partisan politics while the war was going on.
The Republican center of gravity has undergone what Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut and a longtime advocate for the Ukrainian community in his state, called a “sea change,” a swing of the pendulum so sharp that some fear it could lead Congress to unwittingly widen the war.
Weisman complied with even more Democratic instructions from Blumenthal.
Yet that story apparently didn’t take, forcing Weisman to write the same piece a week later, with more familiar Democratic names, on Friday: “Republicans Once Silent on Russia Ratchet Up Attacks on Biden.” After hearing out two Republican senators criticize Biden’s previous passivity on Russia, Weisman then lashed out:
Absent from that analysis were four years under President Donald Trump during which he repeatedly undermined NATO, sided with Mr. Putin over his own intelligence community on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and tried to bring Russia back into the community of developed economies….
The next sentence looks more partisan, considering the contents of this paragraph. Times is finally admitting about the reality of Hunter Biden’s laptop and the contents contained there:
Sen. Ron Johnson from Wisconsin also went to Moscow. then launched an investigation of Hunter Biden in Ukraine that sparked warnings by Democrats that he was serving as a conduit of Russian disinformation….
Only Republicans can be partisan.
Democrats claim that this criticism is a sign of how narrow-minded and determined the Republican Party is about taking down its rivals.
Weisman discovered another familiar face of the Democratic party:
“Republicans have defaulted to attacking Joe Biden in a moment of national crisis,” said Senator Christopher S. Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut….
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At the opposite end is Senator Mitt Romney (Republican of Utah). A more thorough historical analysis was provided.
“I wish we’d have armed Ukraine more than we did, but that’s true for not just Biden, but Trump and before him,” said Mr. Romney, who warned during the 2012 presidential debate of a looming threat from Russia….
Evidently, Times is also trying to get on the “right side of history” on Russia, given they mocked then-candidate Romney in 2012 for his Russia concerns, at least when he was criticizing sitting Democratic president Barack Obama.
Weisman is actually related to an old Times article by Richard Oppel Jr. critical of Romney’s suddenly wise words:
Mitt Romney’s recent declaration that Russia is America’s top geopolitical adversary drew raised eyebrows and worse from many Democrats, some Republicans and the Russians themselves, all of whom suggested that Mr. Romney was misguidedly stuck in a cold war mind-set.
March 2012 – Times editorial was even worse:
Two decades after the end of the cold war, Mitt Romney still considers Russia to be America’s ‘No. 1 geopolitical foe.’ His comments display either a shocking lack of knowledge about international affairs or just craven politics. These comments are dangerous and not worthy of being endorsed by a leading presidential contender.
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