It's still terrible framing for CPAC to use.
Simply demanding that equal funds be sent to secure our own border would make the point just as aggressively, without also pissing off the parts of the right that support the war in Ukraine.
Perhaps. But that's not a make or break deal. And maybe CPAC should clarify or fix their messaging. I don't know. I'm certainly sympathetic to Ukraine and what they're going through, but I'm tired of the NeoCons and Neolibs constantly doing this shit to us. People aren't just frustrated about this. People are angry.
I understand that phrasing the annexation and current status of those areas as 'Ukrainian occupied' helps lend legitimacy to Putin's claims and acts like those regions now belong to Russia.
I also understand 'fiscal conservatism' and complaints around it are a mostly a farce, and have been since we went off the Gold Standard to fiat currency the Federal Reserve can manipulate at will to do whatever they want.
The old ideology of 'fiscal conservatism' being the old standby for GOP rhetoric doesn't hold much sway outside the hardcore GOP base, and when the complaint is made to seem like aiding Ukraine is 'gift-giving', it makes it so much easier to paint the GOP as the party of Russia appeasers to much of the public, particularly after the years of the 'Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax' was spammed by the media.
Except annexation is exactly what Putin has done. And they'll stay annexed until they're liberated. That's not appeasement, that's just reality. And I resent the accusation. You are deliberately taking the worst possible take on this and running with it as fact. I thought you weren't a Leftist anymore? Cause they're the only ones who really do that.
As for Fiscal Conservatism not holding sway outside the core GOP base...well, that's part of the fucking problem, now isn't it? Do people not understand how money works? We are so in debt that our grand children will be middle age by the time it's paid off. If it's ever paid off. Spending and printing money has been so reckless and out of control we are in serious danger of an economic collapse that makes the great depression look like a day at the park. I bet you it'll suddenly be on everyone's mind then when every penny and dime is precious. As it damn well should have been from the start.
Ukraine will be a forgotten sideshow if and when that happens.