這和二戰開始時美國的孤立主義不是一回事兒。才把這個 Bill Kristol 的帖子貼在給古紙兄的回複下麵，再抄一遍：
FEB 19, 2024
Happy Presidents’ Day—a quick missive today, and we’ll let you get back to your holiday.
Hanging Putin Around Trump’s Neck
Not to be a Debbie Downer on Presidents’ Day, but I want to talk about Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
In the last few days, Vladimir Putin has murdered Alexei Navalny, and the New York Times has reported that Putin hopes to deploy anti-satellite weapons with nuclear warheads in space that would pose a clear and present danger to us.
And of course Putin’s brutal war against Ukraine is entering its third year. It’s also clear that Putin is a key figure in an axis of anti-American dictators in Iran, China, and North Korea.
We were slow in awakening to the threat of Putin. We have been sluggish in responding to that threat once awakened. But it is the most urgent foreign policy threat we face.
A broad coalition of political forces in the United States, ranging from Mike Pence on the right to Bernie Sanders on the left, is anti-Putin. Against them stand Donald Trump and some of his acolytes, who are pro-Putin.
The likely nominee of one of our two major political parties is pro-Vladimir Putin. This is an astonishing fact. It is an appalling fact. It has to be a central fact of the 2024 campaign.
But the political professionals say foreign policy doesn’t matter in elections. Americans vote on the economy. Or immigration. Or abortion rights.
That’s true to some degree. But not as much as we might think—particularly now that the post-Cold War era has ended in the wake of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. The world we now live in seems more like that of 1972, or 1980, or 1988. In such a world, issues of foreign policy and national security matter in selecting a president. Putin matters.
And American voters know who Putin is. In an August Gallup poll, 95 percent of all Americans had an opinion of the Russian dictator, making him better known than any American politicians other than Biden and Trump. In that poll, Trump was seen favorably by 41 percent of Americans and unfavorably by 55 percent, while Biden’s favorable/unfavorable split was 41 percent to 57 percent.
Putin’s numbers in that poll? 5 percent favorable, 90 percent unfavorable. A YouGov poll last week was a bit rosier: 13 percent in favor of the Russian dictator, 81 percent unfavorable.
It’s actually striking that all the work of the pro-Putin right—from Trump himself to Tucker Carlson—has had so little effect in improving Putin’s image. Putin turns out to be a very hard sell.
Which is all the more reason to hang Putin around Trump’s neck. It could well make Trump a harder sell to some number of swing voters.
Those who seek to save the country from a Trump second term can and should hammer home Trump’s fondness for Putin.
A Bush 1988 campaign operative was quoted as saying that they were going to make the American public believe that Willie Horton, the murderer paroled under a law signed by Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis, was Dukakis’s running mate. They did a pretty good job of that. There is far better justification for making Vladimir Putin into Donald Trump’s figurative running mate. Because it’s true: A vote for Trump is a vote for Putin.
—William Kristol
“不援烏”的情緒，是人造的假貨，不是美國此刻的民意。美援會到位。也許會有些折騰，但會到位。
土豆新的一周開心。
