There is nothing conservative about starving our foreign policy budget of a few billion dollars today in order to spend a trillion dollars later on when an otherwise avoidable crisis strikes or an armed conflict looms.
Cardin critiques cuts to foreign policy funding as shortsighted.
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You have found the Achilles hill of the Putin regime. They rape, torture and kill with impunity and keep their ill-gotten gains in the West.
If Putin is so mad about this, probably there will be some other dictators that would not like it as well
If we are going to carry this as a value on the international stage, that the United States stands up for human rights and certain values and the rule of law, is it not important that we be willing to apply these sanctions to accomplish…
Why do we not widen this piece of legislation out so it includes all human rights abusers in Russia?
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