Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has vowed to stay in the Senate to fight against what he called an “isolationist movement” within the GOP, referring to Republicans who oppose the proxy war in Ukraine.
Earlier this year, the 82-year-old said he would step down from his position as the Senate GOP leader this November after nearly two decades. In a radio interview on Monday, McConnell said he would stay in the Senate at least until his term ends in 2026.
“I’m particularly involved in actually fighting back against the isolationist movement in my own party. And some in the other as well. And the symbol of that lately is: Are we going to help Ukraine or not?” McConnell said, according to POLITICO. “I’ve got this sort of on my mind for the next couple years as something I’m going to focus on.”
McConnell has been leading the charge in the Senate on the Ukraine proxy war and previously declared arming Ukraine is the “number one priority” for Republicans in Congress.
In his interview on Monday, McConnell also discussed his fellow Kentucky Republican senator, Rand Paul, and said he was worried that more members of the GOP were beginning to align with him.
“What’s made it more troublesome is, it seems to me, others are heading in that direction, making arguments that are easily refuted. We’re not losing any of our troops, the Ukrainians are the ones doing the fighting,” he said.
While panning Republicans opposed more Ukraine aid as “isolationists,” virtually all GOP members in Congress are in favor of arming Israel to support the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. The majority of Republicans also believe the US should be building up its military in the Asia Pacific to prepare for a future war with China.
Infuriating how peace and non-interventionism proponents are smeared as “isolationists” by the cabal of US imperialism.
Looks like someone’s eager for World War 3
Apparently, Arming Ukraine is not the “#1 priority of Republicans in Congress” or he wouldn’t have been pushed aside from leadership.
And they can’t keep the distinction between “Isolationist” and “Protectionist” apart since they don’t have a governing principle that they’ve not abandoned.
Warmonger Mitch..nearing the John McCain level of blind militarism and globalist intervention…
He is a bit past Trumpolini but still lags Joe as the age and dementia factor are ramping up…..
a good shill for the MIC.
Sen. Mitch McConnell just another Kleptocrat!
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Can’t imagine what he gets if he kills 1/2 million more Ukrainians.
Haha. I don’t want to even know …
making arguments that are easily refuted.
Refuting strawman arguments is always easy.
The MAGA extremist’s opposition to Ukraine aid is based more on undermining Biden. It’s not based on principle. “Isolationism” means different things to different people. MAGA extremists are isolationist as far as goods and services crossing borders, along with people. They are very much pro-interventionist and for blowing up other countries and exporting brutalism in general….as long as a Trump is in power. They support foreign aid to the genocidal, apartheid government of Israel and the mass murder inflected upon Gaza.
Trump just called for Israel to return to peace.. Try and stay on the same page.
Yes. Return to peace. As in keep oppressing the Palestinians but don’t make it look so bad. That peace.
Peace process according to Trump: Keep genociding the Palestinians but censor media coverage. Peace process according to Biden: Do exactly the same but keep saying you’re “preventing genocide.”
as in “they make a desert and call it peace” …?
Whatever he meant it knocked the Zios doing the interview into stunned silence ( an achievment in itself ) and just maybe a little self reflection.
Maybe not in enough time enough to save Gaza but perhaps the West Bank.
The Lord moves in mysterious ways.
As in a return to a time before Biden stoled the office.
So, you mean the status quo, or pre-Oct 7th? If going back to Trump being rabidly pro-Israel because it’s better than Biden ‘s genocide, then we are truly scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Trumps rabitity for Israel will be tempered by Biden’s genocide.
You’re assuming a lot man. And for what reason, I have no idea.
To oust Biden. That is the reason and my only reason.
Wishful thinking won’t oust Biden.
Best chance there is.
That’s true. I misspoke. The wishful thinking part was about Trump being less loyal to Israel than he was while in office. Biden may be ousted but I don’t think it will because Trump is willing to cut ties with Israel or even lessen support. But that all is going to be relevant to what the status of the current situation is by November.
Unless Biden does a 180 on his blanket support for Israel he’ll be standing alone in a field of corpses. Israel will be universally loathed.
I don’t see Trump as going to the mat for Israel and dragging down his approval ratings.
A whole bunch of shit is going to happen before November. There are just too many people who could die before then for something big not to happen. And soon. I don’t think Trump will have to go to the mat for Israel by election time.
I was thinking it might be today with the hysteria being generated about an Iranian counter attack against Israel.
Lot of paranoia out there and it gets contagious.
Trying to stay on the same page as Trump would be a full-time job. He changes policy positions and justifications more often than those of us with reasonably good personal hygiene change underwear.
That’s because Trump doesn’t have principles. Instead, Trump has inclinations. Depending on whatever Trump has for breakfast, his inclinations can change.
You just don’t know how to read him. The important thing is he knows how to read the American public and they want out of Biden’s wars..
You do want out of those wars don’t you? Well Trump is the way so let’s all get behind him for the big push as he knocks down the War Party once and for all!
God bless America! 🇺🇸
If he knows how to read the American public so well, why did he get a minority of that publlic’s vote in both 2016 and 2020?
Trump reads ALL the people of the United States, not just high population zones.
That’s how he beat Her and won the Presidency.
Unfortunately, lax voting rules in ‘20 derailed his reelection. Now that integrity has been restored to the ballot box, his comeback as well as our own is all but assured.
Trump beat her because she was the least popular American political figure of the previous two decades and ran a piss-poor campaign.
He was able to scrape out 80,000 or so votes in three states by being slightly less unpopular and runninig a slightly less incompetent campaign.
After which he manage to lose to an also not very popular candidate, in between costing his party two midterms.
He’s a loser, and the only thing he reliably “reads” is his bank statements.
Hind-site being 20 20 we can say she ran a poor campaign but at the time just about everybody including me thought she was a shoo in.
Winning one upset State might be happenstance and two might be a coincidence but three is a sure sign of a winner!
You should also consider Trump cleared the field of all challengers in the primaries with ease.
And he’s doing it again, vanquishing one of the most popular Governors on the right without even showing up for one debate.
Bottom line – he did it before, he’ll do it again.
“at the time just about everybody including me thought she was a shoo in.”
I’ve always found that puzzling. I predicted his victory in May of 2016, and issued 50 state predictions, 48 of which were correct, that September. It wasn’t hard. I just looked at what was there instead of visualizing whatever I wanted to see. As did many others who made similarly accurate predictions.
Well I sincerely congratulate you and the “many others” who got it right but many many others assured us otherwise. I was hardly the only one who was misled by the polling and army of experts who predicted a Clinton win. Believe me that was NOT what I wanted to see.
Your Biden campaign commercial is noted.
More like spot on truths.
Both Dems and Repub’s are the same sack of shi#! Purge the DC Ghouls is the only answer, unless Russia does it first and all of us will be called, “Collateral Damage”.
True. But that comment wasn’t pro Biden. R’s and D’s are known for being against wars that happen while D’s and R’s are in the White House. Unfortunately, there are still plenty of republicans in favor of arming Ukraine and plenty more in favor of arming Tawain and Israel. Hardly “isolationists”.
No many of us do not support those policies you paint with an inaccurate broad brush.
Trump at least pretends to support the working and middle classes and infuriated the deep state questioning the relevance of NATO and hostility to Russia.
Hey the enemy of my enemy sort of thing for a substantial number of people.
I’d prefer a Ron Paul type but that will never be on the menu.
No many of us do not support those policies you paint with an inaccurate broad brush.
I think he meant those in congress. If not, then I agree with you.
I remember Antiwar’s Justin Raimondo & his relationship with now retired Patrick J. Buchanan. Kentucky Senators – Rand Paul and Mitch, now in the leadership ditch,McConnell. Let this juxtaposition of believes in this political party speak-for-itself.
Dave DeCamp is doing a great job.
Those two are the founding fathers of the modern peace movement we have today.
RIP Justin.
Long life to Pat!
Well, correction: He says he’ll stay in the Senate at least until his term ends, and after that he doesn’t know. It seems reasonable that a senator would sit out his term. As for Ukraine, he knows that the Russians are gaining ground every day, that Ukraine is out of soldiers, the West is out of ammunition to send, and Russia will wrap it up in the summer.
You … goddamn….
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The last time Congress voted to fund Ukraine was Sept 28, 2023 when I forced the $300 million for Ukraine out of the DOD approps bill and we had a separate vote on the floor.
Republicans:
YEA: 101
NAY: 117
Democrats:
YEA: 210
NAY: 0
“What’s made it more troublesome is, it seems to me, others are heading in that direction, making arguments that are easily refuted. We’re not losing any of our troops, the Ukrainians are the ones doing the fighting,” he said.
Yes, easily refuted. They’re dying and we’re not. Hear that Ukraine. Mitch cares. And he didn’t even have to use “but the money stays right here in the US” argument.
Here he comes again with that trope of equating isolationism with military noninterventionism. Commerce and good relations with all is not isolationist.
military noninterventionism
Such a mouthful.. Why not Neutrality? Simple and to the point – and covered in international law.
We ain’t gotta dog in this fight.
Corrupt pos.
Ya gotta love the way they redefine words in order to use them against people who oppose their hellish schemes.
I can’t wait for McConnell to get his just desserts.
Come on, Mitch, that’s not antiUSwars.
Not helping Putin.
So according to old turtle face, you’re either a warmonger or an isolationist. That’s how they gaslight the public, by narrowing and controlling our choices.
We should be cheering for genocidal psychopaths. The world has bifurcated- you are for declared, not even hidden genocide, the humans are not. Demons are showing their true face. We should be thankful to those Palestinian sacrificial lambs alliwing us to see demons. We need exorcists,
Another demented piece of crap infesting the congress. Mold is already growing on him.