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...targeted defense cuts in US support for Ukraine.  Anything to help Putin.
Republicans don't want a strong America. Republicans don't believe in America. Republicans don't believe in defending freedom. Republicans are weak on national defense.
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This is where the party is truly split. There are are still old school Republican hawks that would spend lavishly on defense. Then their is another group, let’s call them Russian assets, whose job is to weaken NATO and alienate American Allies under the guise of fiscal responsibility. >

Bingo