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Old 04-07-2022, 01:24 PM   #721
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Even a purely symbolic vote in support of NATO and its principles was opposed by 30 percent of House Republicans on Tuesday.


Why would republicans be against such a vote

Here some reasons Among the emerging views he isolated: that NATO was at fault for provoking Vladimir Putin, that we should focus instead on our own Southern border, and that the United States has no business defending European allies, whether in NATO or otherwise.

Yet. The Senate in 2018 passed a bill reaffirming support for NATO 97-2 — a pretty direct rebuke to Trump given that he was, at that precise time, traveling to a NATO summit in Brussels

Seems Republicans are becoming isolationist.. they should change the party name to the revisionist part

Trying hard to push America back to a point in Time that never existed..
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"Why would republicans be against such a vote

Here some reasons Among the emerging views he isolated: that NATO was at fault for provoking Vladimir Putin, that we should focus instead on our own Southern border, and that the United States has no business defending European allies, whether in NATO or otherwise."

So you ask why they opposed the bill, then list some speculative reasons (naturally, ugly reasons) why they might have opposed it.

If you actually wanted to know why they opposed it, you could have spent 10 seconds googling it, as some of them were happy to say why they opposed it...this isn't all of the republicans who opposed it, but a few. The bill called for creating a new organization within NATO, and they wanted more time to understand how that would work. They felt rushed.

Those bastards!!

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/04...presentatives/

In the article you obviously stole from (I read the Washington Post article), another republican said it sounded like the new organizaqtion would get to influence the domestic politics of member nations, and he doesn't want NATO telling countries how to govern themselves.

You sure cherry-picked the Washington Post article to find the stiff that painted the GOP in the most negative possible light, didn't you?

Here's your article...here's what one the of the republicans said was his reason, not a very sinister reason, which is why you ignored it!

"We should be strengthening the alliance, not reimagining it as a tool to interfere in one another’s domestic politics.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...-nato-support/
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Old 04-07-2022, 01:44 PM   #722
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Jim 30 % of Republicans no cherry picking at all…. Learn what symbolic means .. please excuse away all of their arguments are built on sand and they’ll move again
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Old 04-07-2022, 01:50 PM   #723
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Wonder which members of the Republican Kremlin caucus are going to Moscow for the Fourth of July this year.
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Old 04-07-2022, 02:20 PM   #724
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Jim 30 % of Republicans no cherry picking at all…. Learn what symbolic means .. please excuse away all of their arguments are built on sand and they’ll move again
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you made made up the worst possible reasons for why they opposed it. when one of the actual ( but benign) reasons was right in that article but you ignored it. it wasn’t an accident that you highlighted the stupid reasons and ignored the reasonable reason.
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