George Will calls out 'shape-shifting' J.D. Vance and MAGA isolationists over foreign policy hypocrisy

President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken were facing major foreign policy challenges before Saturday, October 7, including Ukraine's war with Russia. But things became even more complicated when Hamas launched a deadly terrorist assault against Israel that day.

Thousands of people have since been killed in the Israel-Hamas War, which foreign policy and political science experts fear could turn into a broader regional conflict if the Lebanon-based Hezbollah declares war against Israel. Biden has been lobbying Congress for military aid to both Ukraine and Israel, but some MAGA Republicans have called for the U.S. to abandon Ukraine — including Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri).

In a scathing Washington Post opinion column published on November 1, Never Trump conservative George Will slams MAGA Republicans for having "isolationist" tendencies during what he describes as "the most dangerous U.S. moment since World War II — more menacing than the October 1962 Cuban missile crisis."

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"Explaining his support for U.S. aid to Israel but not Ukraine, Sen. J.D. Vance, the shape-shifting Ohio Republican, wrote: 'Israel has an achievable objective. Ukraine does not,'" the 82-year-old Will writes. "Actually, their objectives are identical: national survival while living in proximity to enemies whose objective is national annihilation."

The conservative columnist continues, "Vance's categorical conclusion, that Ukraine's survival is unachievable, makes him a momentous symptom of Donald Trump's transformation of the Republican Party. If Trump becomes, for the third consecutive time, the party's presidential candidate, one of our two major parties will be more isolationist than either party was during the 1930s high tide of 'America First' isolationism."

Will delves into U.S. history, noting that Vance reflects a "long-lingering" isolationism within the Republican Party and arguing that in 1941, the "cure for 1930s isolationism was Pearl Harbor."

"Populists call the war in Ukraine a 'forever war,'" Will writes. "It is 20 months old. Twenty months into World War 2 in Europe — May 1941 — Hitler was triumphant from Norway to North Africa, and Victory in Europe Day was four years distant. World War 2 was not forever; it was worth winning."

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