The Wall Street Journal called on Senate Republicans to take action against Russian President Vladimir Putin with economic sanctions while President Donald Trump vacillates between “begging for peace” and “scolding” the Russian dictator.
In an editorial posted Monday, the Journal asserted that the “genuine realists” in the Senate Republican conference need to act against Russia and do what former President Joe Biden “refused” to do and what Trump “can’t make up his mind” to do: apply secondary sanctions on Russia’s oil and gas.
“Mr. Trump and his advisers fancy themselves steely-eyed realists on foreign policy. No ‘neocon’ idealism for them. But on Mr. Putin they are starry-eyed idealists, mouthing ‘peace’ as if they can make it happen by wishing it were so. Mr. Trump’s naivete is helping Russia continue the killing as long as Mr. Putin wants,” the Journal wrote.
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