While US MSM mostly subscribes the Evil Russia, Righteous Ukraine view, Americans see the situation differently.Up From Chaos.” Mr. Kent, who is challenging Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R., Wash.) in a primary, called Mr. Putin’s demand that Ukraine cede Donetsk and Luhansk “very reasonable.” Helen Andrews, a senior editor for American Conservative magazine
"That split within the right has emerged publicly as well. “Putin has laid out what he wants in Ukraine—a decent starting point,” congressional candidate Joe Kent said March 31, speaking at what was styled an “emergency” conference called “
Also on March 31, Compact magazine released a declaration, signed by 33 people on both the right and left, including former Trump White House aide Michael Anton and journalist Glenn Greenwald. It calls for “de-escalation” and “good-faith” peacetalks that acknowledge Russia’s “legitimate security needs” and demands that President Biden disavow “regime change” in Moscow.
Other America-firsters have made comments that sound like Russian propaganda. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R., Ga.) tweeted that U.S. tax dollars shouldn’t be spent on “lethal aid to be given to possible Nazi militias that are torturing innocentpeople, especially young children and women.” Charlie Kirk, president of Turning Point USA, tweeted that “if you are mindlessly supporting Ukraine . . . you might be cheering for literal Nazis.”
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