Michael Makouro, one of the GOP’s most well-known foreign hawks, announced he will retire on Sunday, warning that Russia is escalating with that escalation. Ukraine’s invasion“We had to be very careful not to be the cliff of World War II.”
McCole issued a statement to ABC News, as he discussed last week. Invasion of Polish airspace The Russian drone led to NATO scrambling the jets and intercepting the vehicle. Russia said the intrusion was false, but Poland and other European countries argued it was intentional. President Donald Trump said, “It could have been a mistake.”
McCaul said the movement was causing the alarm. “We’ve never seen anything like this recently,” the lawmaker said. “So what’s worrying about is that there is escalation and temperatures here, and we had to be very careful not to be on the cliffs of World War II.”
McCole has long pushed Trump to take a more harsh stance on Russia and its Ukrainian aggression, and he said he considers the president “wakes up” the Russian president. Vladimir Putin “We haven’t negotiated in good faith.”
Trump has repeatedly praised Putin over the years and moved to cut off military aid to Ukraine, but he has reversed the course and supported a new increase. he Putin has been invited to Alaska The Russian president has yet to commit to one regarding the debate over a ceasefire in Ukraine last month.
“I think he’s manipulating the president as a KGB officer,” McCor said of Putin, who worked for Russia’s intelligence agency. “The more President Putin stimulates the president, the better we will be in defending NATO and Ukraine.”
McCole, 63, a former anti-terrorism prosecutor and past chairman of the House Homeland Security and Foreign Affairs Committee, is part of an older generation of foreign policy hawks who have sought to counter the younger crops of Republicans who are more skeptical of US intervention elsewhere around the world.
McCole will become one of at least 10 House members and leave the Chamber of Commerce without seeking a higher office. This is a tally that includes Nebraska GOP Hawk Rep. Don Bacon, who is increasingly critical of Trump’s response to Putin.
McCole said he was finishing his term, but said, “I am looking for new challenges in the same space as national security, foreign policy, but just in another realm.”
