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Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by _heimdall on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @07:12AM (#42060940)
The republicans I know have pretty varying opinions on those two wars. One pretty common thread is that they don't want us involved though, regardless of which side of the wars they align with.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by TOMDM on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @07:19AM (#42061035)
Then call them what they are, isolationists not anti war then. Carrying water for Russia's invasion of Ukraine; opposing aid for Ukraine is incompatible.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by _heimdall on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @07:30AM (#42061196)
Sure, you could call them isolation if you prefer.

Many of the republicans I know sit in a gray area in between, they definitely don't want us involved but they also don't have a strong opinion on the wars either way and see them as someone else's fight. That definitely isn't the main narrative I see in the media, but I personally know very few republicans who care strongly about one side of either war.

That view is a bit like a libertarian anti-war view in my opinion. Its antiwar without attempting to get involved in anyone else's business.

Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by navigate8310 on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @08:19AM (#42061845)
Basically questioning tax-money spendings
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by philistine on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @07:18AM (#42061031)
Ultimately those opinions will not matter. The president has full control of the State department and will align with the autocrats who stroke his ego: Putin and Netanyahu.

Expect the money to stop flowing to Ukraine, and to keep going to Israel, and try to divine a logic for that.

Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by _heimdall on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @07:31AM (#42061217)
Thankfully the state department doesn't hold the purse strings, though the democratic party did so poorly that Congress may still be willing to approve whatever spending the Trump wants.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by cglace on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @08:07AM (#42061684)
All of the Trump voters I know think we should obliterate Iran.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by cynicalpeace on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @08:13AM (#42061768)
Here's 1 that doesn't think that.

Maybe you just don't know enough Trump voters?

Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by cglace on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @08:25AM (#42061921)
I live in Georgia; my family is from South Carolina, North Carolina, and Florida. Try again.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by _heimdall on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @08:39AM (#42062108)
Well that's interesting. I live in a very red area and have never heard this. At best I could hear it said as a joke, I don't know anyone that would actually think we should do that.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by BolexNOLA on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @08:00AM (#42061602)
Trump is going to send more money and armaments to Israel and not one of them will object because he will abandon Ukraine and they’ll all hold that up as an amazing thing.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by _heimdall on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @08:40AM (#42062120)
Maybe, at which point I expect their being pretty hypocritical. I wouldn't begin to say one side of either war is in the absolute right or wrong though. War is messy, terrible, and bloody. It'd never as simply as right vs wrong or good vs evil.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by BolexNOLA on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @12:03PM (#42065366)
When has hypocrisy ever caused self reflection when people are playing the team sport that is politics?

It’s always “your hypocrisy is worse than my hypocrisy” because even if they admit the hypocrisy exists (not a given) they just chalk it up to “both sides.“ We’ve seen this song and dance for a decade straight.