What does ‘isolationist’ even mean in 2024?
What does ‘isolationist’ even mean in 2024?
In February, Mitch McConnell announced he would be stepping down as the longest-serving Senate leader in history.
But he’s not leaving the Senate. He insists he still has fight in him.
“I’m particularly involved in actually fighting back against the isolationist movement in my own party. And some in the other as well,” McConnell recently said.
To be clear, he added, “And the symbol of that lately is: Are we going to help Ukraine or not?”
McConnell’s question about whether or not those in Congress are going to ‘help’ Ukraine indicates his support for a $60 billion package currently being held up for the beleaguered country, after $113 billion has already been sent.
But to what end? Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky was ready to negotiate, by his own words, early into the war and even before, a position that U.S. relations and boatloads of American money seemingly changed. Responsible Statecraft reported in February that “The U.S. estimated in August that 70,000 Ukrainian soldiers had died and an additional 100,000 to 120,000 had been injured, putting the number of total casualties at over 170,000” and also that “The war has killed at least 10,378 civilians and injured an additional 19,632, according to the UN.” The country’s remaining military is exhausted and some politicians, in the U.S. and Ukraine, favor loosening conscription requirements.
Outside of hawks in Washington, DC and perhaps Ukraine leadership, it’s also become something of a consensus that this is a war Ukraine simply can’t win.
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