Why the clock is ticking on US support for Ukraine war effort
As Republican voters cool on Ukraine, there is a strong chance America’s next president will be an isolationist
The Sunday Times
As he surveyed the scene of the Normandy landings on the 40th anniversary of D-Day, Ronald Reagan set out the “bitter lesson” the US took from the Second World War: “It is better to be here ready to protect the peace than to take blind shelter across the sea, rushing to respond only after freedom is lost,” he said on June 6, 1984. “We’ve learnt that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments with an expansionist intent.”
For all the lip service paid by today’s Republican leaders to the party’s most popular modern president, their foreign policy approach could not be more different.
Joe Biden is fond of saying, “This ain’t your father’s Republican Party”, and when it comes
