Maybe the color of the GOP really should be red. . .

 

Use IMF Funds Instead

Lummis believes funding for supporting Ukraine should come from the International Monetary Fund Special Drawing Rights, to which the United States is part of, “not from hardworking American families.” 

Lummis said the U.S. could use its IMF Special Drawing Rights to provide important weapons and humanitarian support to Ukraine through a long-term, no interest loan.

She has consistently opposed providing financial support to Ukraine since the start of the war.

“I have promoted that source of funding until I’m blue in the face, to no avail,” Lummis said. “I continue to support America’s resolve to defend Ukrainian self-governance, but without asking hardworking taxpayers to foot the bill, especially at a time when American families’ budgets are stretched due to record high inflation.”

From the Cowboy State Daily.

In other words, she supports knowing what will not come about, knowing that would come about would be a Ukrainian defeat, and expanded Russia, and a boosted Putin.

Maybe Red really is the appropriate color for the modern GOP.

We have to give some credit to Lummis here. This comment is nicely camouflaged with fiscal responsibility.  It implies, "I'm all for Ukraine, but the fiscally responsible way to aid Ukraine is. . ."  That's the sort of position that's likely to cut a little slack with the hard right isolationist populist, while also not seeming to suggest we let the Russian army roll up to the English Channel.

But that's basically what it really means, or more accurately that we turn a blind eye while Putin reassembles Imperial Russia, which is basically what he's attempting to do.

It would serve us well to remember the history of that, however.  In 1917 the Romanovs fell.  A democratic Russia briefly emerged, and Finland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, and Transcaucasia states declared their independence.  The Soviets deposed the government, war resulted, and the Soviet Union ultimately attacked all of those regions or co-opted them politically.

We struggled against that anti-democratic assembly for years.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

 George Santayana.