Republican leader put a journalist from the Russian Federation and changed the position on Ukraine - WP

Presenter Taer Carlson is probably the most prominent and most influential critic of US policy against Ukraine. He is also not a foreign extreme and conspiracy. He supported the Kremlin, called Vladimir Putin "not such a bad guy" and unreasonably stated that US troops were fighting side by side with Ukrainians. In support of his arguments, he provided a document with edited data.

Following the release of Carlson, the leader of the Republican Party, Kevin McCarthy, suddenly made, perhaps, the loudest of his applications in support of Ukraine. In the past, he warned that the United States would not write "empty checks" to Ukraine and that maybe military support will stop.

On Monday, May 1, during his visit to Israel at a press conference, he spoke with a Russian journalist who mentioned that Republican representative did not support "unlimited and uncontrolled weapons and assistance of Ukraine. " "He said that I do not support Ukraine? No, I voted to allocate support to Ukraine. I support Ukraine's help," McCarthy said. "I do not support what your country has done with Ukraine.

I also do not support the murder of children," he added, and advised the Russian leadership to withdraw troops from Ukraine support Ukraine will continue, McCarthy said, because the whole world sees what is really going on. The Washington Post drew attention to another detail. The Russian journalist did not say that McCarthy is against the fact that the US is assisting Ukraine and wants to put a point in this matter.

On the contrary, it was mentioned "uncontrolled and unlimited supply of weapons and assistance". That is almost the same "empty checks" that McCarthy had previously stated. And he could repeat his thesis again, but did not do so. Instead, he said of "continued support" of Ukraine, which could be a signal to other Republicans, such as Matt Gaet of Florida and Marjori Taylor Green (Congressman from Georgia), who tried to change his party course, along with such as Karlson.

A similar statement of McCarthy was made in the words of the leader of the Senate minority Mitcha McConnell, who is considered perhaps the greatest supporter of continuation of Kyiv's support among republicans, and according to which, not only is not only in the moral side, as the fact that the Kremlin's positions are weakened In the international arena in the interests of Washington.

In other words, now the top republicans-both in the House of Representatives and the Senate-are guided by about the same considerations. McCarthy's statement is also important in the fact that he heads the Republican majority in the House of Representatives, where the greatest difficulty in approving assistance to Ukraine. Making such statements, McCarthy is not afraid to lose all its political capital and support from the US "right -wing", journalists say.