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Colby also determined that security assistance to Ukraine and America’s NATO allies in the Baltics was ‘wasteful’ and removed these long-standing efforts from the fiscal 2026 budget request,

McConnell, a Republican, criticizes Elbridge Colby (a Trump administration Defense Department official, generally aligned with the…Show full reasoning

This doesn’t seem to be a first for Colby. Last year, he was reportedly behind the decision to suspend arms shipments to Kyiv — a decision that one source said caught President Donald Trump ‘flat-footed,’

McConnell is criticizing Elbridge Colby, a Trump administration (Republican) official, over a specific reported action — suspending arms shipments to Kyiv — that reportedly blindsided President Trump.Show full reasoning

…part of a decade, Hungarian politics has persisted as an object of intense fascination in certain corners of the American right,

McConnell is commenting on a faction within the American right (his own party's ideological coalition) that has shown fascination with…Show full reasoning

This phenomenon is endlessly puzzling. America’s self-proclaimed national conservatives spoke of Orban’s Hungary as an oasis of traditionalism amid the wasteland of an ailing, liberal and decadent postmodern Europe. And some American politicians appear to have bought into the myth.

McConnell is criticizing a faction within his own party ('national conservatives' and unnamed 'American politicians') for admiring Viktor…Show full reasoning

fawning servitude to authoritarians,

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