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  • Mitch McConnell Defends Standing With Ukraine

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 2nd 2023 11:15am EST

    Mitch McConnell is back from his recent trip to Europe where he announced at the Munich Security Conference that only his own opinion and the views of House and Senate Republican leadership matter when it comes to our foreign policy and Standing With Ukraine. New York Times: “WASHINGTON — When he made his surprise wartime […]

  • Vladimir Putin Addresses Nation After a Year of War

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 26th 2023 2:59pm EST

    We are now entering Year Two of this.

  • Joe Biden Delivers Address On Ukraine War

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 21st 2023 1:37pm EST

    He can’t go fast enough. NBC News:

  • David French: America Can’t Go “Wobbly” On Ukraine

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 20th 2023 12:52pm EST

    This is good news. By chiming in on the importance of Standing With Ukraine, David French will only ensure that support for it will continue to plummet on the Right simply by being associated with him. New York Times: “As we approach the first anniversary of Russia’s brutal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, two ominous […]

  • National Review: Reagan Republicans Take On Putin Republicans

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 20th 2023 12:11pm EST

    The standard bearer of Reagan Republicanism in 2024 is currently polling around 3 percent, 2/3rds of Republican voters are tired of Standing With Ukraine and over 1/2 of Republican voters say that Standing With Ukraine makes them less likely to support a Reaganite presidential candidate. We’re also around a year out from the Iowa Caucus […]

  • The Political Cesspool: The War In Ukraine and Trump 2024

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 20th 2023 9:47am EST

    LISTEN HERE I appeared on The Political Cesspool this weekend to discuss the very real possibility that the 2024 presidential election is shaping up to be a contest between Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis and Joe Biden and that Trump is the only candidate that could be running on getting out of Ukraine. Note: The rest […]

  • Poll Watch: Republican Voters Are No Longer Standing With Ukraine

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 15th 2023 9:55am EST

    79% of Democrats say lawmakers from their party mostly agree about the Democratic Party’s values; 58% of Republicans say the same about Republican lawmakers. https://t.co/ZKPRLJOtBW pic.twitter.com/8Hc6iGiPpE — AP-NORC Center (@APNORC) February 14, 2023 21% of Republican voters support sending government funds to Ukraine. 39% of Republican voters support sending weapons to Ukraine. 58% of Republican […]

  • Breaking Points: Pulitzer Journo: U.S. Blew Up Nordstream Pipeline

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 10th 2023 9:49am EST

    This one was always a real mystery. Seymour Hersh: “The U.S. Navy’s Diving and Salvage Center can be found in a location as obscure as its name—down what was once a country lane in rural Panama City, a now-booming resort city in the southwestern panhandle of Florida, 70 miles south of the Alabama border. The […]

  • Rachel Maddow: Give War a Chance!

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 9th 2023 10:28am EST

    Donald Trump is no longer the president. As bad as Trump was on foreign policy though, I have been convinced by the Biden administration that these people are a lot worse.

  • Poll Watch: Most Republican Voters Now Oppose “Providing More Funding and Weapons To Ukraine”

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 7th 2023 2:33pm EST

    As I pointed out on Gab, Republican politicians have always tried to screw over their own voters by pushing unpopular legislation like all the amnesties for illegal aliens or most recently the gay marriage bill. Public opinion is a ceiling on how far they can go with this though. We never got comprehensive immigration reform […]

  • Poll Watch: One Year Later, Republican Voters Are Split On Ukraine

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 6th 2023 12:00pm EST

    A year into the war in Ukraine, it is still basically MAGA Republicans vs. everyone else who support Joe Biden in prolonging the conflict. Democrats are now the War Party. Gallup: “WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nearly one year into the war between Russia and Ukraine, Americans’ support for Ukraine holds steady. A stable 65% of U.S. […]

  • National Review: The World and Ron DeSantis

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 6th 2023 10:11am EST

    Unlike Trump, Ron DeSantis has little to say about continuing to support Joe Biden’s foreign policy of Standing With Ukraine. He is obviously afraid of being boxed into the declining neocon Reaganite lane with Mike Pence and Nikki Haley. National Review: “Not since George W. Bush in 1999 has a sitting governor contemplating a run […]

  • Politico: Trump’s ’24 Game Plan Is To Run Against The Hawks

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 6th 2023 9:45am EST

    Donald Trump is trying to win me back. Politico: “Donald Trump is settling on a simple foreign policy pitch in his second bid for the White House: Want World War 3? Vote for the other guy. Over the past week, Trump has assailed President Joe Biden’s handling of Afghanistan. He has said he could end […]

  • Boris Johnson Attacks Tucker Carlson Over Ukraine

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 2nd 2023 10:08am EST

    Boris Johnson wades into the culture wars at @AtlanticCouncil this morning with this broadside against Tucker Carlson. pic.twitter.com/fHNm5u20JY — Ben Judah (@b_judah) February 1, 2023 On the two issues that define our moment — immigration and foreign policy — Lindsey Graham is strongly on Joe Biden’s side. He believes that Ukraine’s borders are far more […]

  • Poll Watch: Americans Grow More Skeptical of Ukraine Aid

    Occidental Dissent - Jan 31st 2023 7:19pm EST

    As the political class in Washington sends tanks to Ukraine and continues to escalate its involvement in the conflict, the American public is moving in the opposite direction. Pew Research Center:

  • Douglas Murray: Right and Wrong on Ukraine

    Occidental Dissent - Jan 23rd 2023 10:35am EST

    Douglas Murray is wondering in National Review why his camp is losing the foreign policy debate on Ukraine on the Right. National Review: “Why has the debate on the Ukraine–Russia war become so fetid, especially on the political right? Why are members of Congress from the Republican Party the ones most outspoken against support for […]

  • Poll Watch: Republican Voters Oppose Further Ukraine Funding

    Occidental Dissent - Jan 12th 2023 10:30am EST

    According to Mitch McConnell, standing with Ukraine is the top priority of Republican voters. Washington Post: “A new CBS News/YouGov poll this week — the first to test the issue since Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke before Congress in December — is the latest to illustrate that drift. And despite Zelensky’s plea for American resolve, it shows […]

  • John Bolton Is Running For President

    Occidental Dissent - Jan 6th 2023 9:26am EST

    According to Mitch McConnell, Ukraine is the top priority of Republican voters. If that is true, maybe John Bolton has a chance in 2024. Daily Mail: “Donald Trump‘s ex-national security adviser John Bolton has revealed he will stand against his former boss in the 2024 election. The veteran foreign policy hawk, who was branded Mr […]

  • Politico: The Looming GOP Crisis Over Ukraine

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 30th 2022 10:58am EST

    This is more or less what I said here the other day. The GOP is divided by age and old people whose early lives were defined by the Cold War are dramatically overrepresented in the Senate which has long been a gerontocracy. The fact that elderly people have controlled the White House and Congress for […]

  • Joe Biden Meets With Zelensky In DC

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 21st 2022 3:44pm EST

    BIDEN TO ZELENSKYY: “We have a famous thing that occurs once a year, we pick the ‘Man of the Year’ in ‘TIME’ magazine. You are the man of the year in the United States of America.” pic.twitter.com/Wo1LGsyvXE — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) December 21, 2022 Zelensky has reportedly told Joe Biden that even this isn’t good enough. […]

  • Poll Watch: Support Is Slipping For Indefinite U.S. Aid To Ukraine

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 6th 2022 10:47am EST

    Good. This is what we wanted. Republicans will control the House for the next two years . Meanwhile, Republican support for aid for Ukraine is dropping like a rock and will likely plunge even further before the next Congress is sworn in. Global Affairs: “But, Republican support for aid to Ukraine has declined notably over […]

  • U.S. To Send Another $4.5 Billion To Ukraine

    Occidental Dissent - Nov 22nd 2022 1:37pm EST

    JUST IN – US is sending another $4.5 billion to Ukraine. — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) November 22, 2022 MORE – The disbursement of this direct budget support to Ukraine will begin in the coming weeks, US Treasury Secretary Yellen says. — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) November 22, 2022 Another multi million dollars budget support to Ukraine will begin […]

  • Jimmy Dore: Bernie Sanders Turned Progressive Movement Into Rotting Corpse

    Occidental Dissent - Nov 18th 2022 11:19pm EST

    So true. I used to think we had some common ground with the populist Left on foreign policy. Ukraine has shown us otherwise. Note: Jimmy Dore and Tulsi Gabbard are the exceptions to the rule.

  • Joe Biden Requests $37 Billion In Emergency Ukraine Aid

    Occidental Dissent - Nov 15th 2022 6:28pm EST

    Student loan debt relief … DEAD. $37 billion for Ukraine … INCOMING. AP: “WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is asking Congress to provide more than $37 billion in emergency aid to Ukraine, a massive infusion of cash that could help support the nation as Russian forces suffer battlefield losses in their nine-month-old invasion. The […]

  • AP: Russian Missiles Cross Into Poland During Strike on Ukraine

    Occidental Dissent - Nov 15th 2022 2:59pm EST

    Just perfect. AP: “KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian missile barrage on the Ukrainian power grid sent the war spilling over into neighboring countries Tuesday, hitting NATO member Poland and cutting electricity to much of Moldova. It was Russia’s biggest barrage yet, and some of the missiles crossed into Poland, where two people were killed, […]