Republicans\u2019 outgoing US Senate leader takes issue with foreign policy thinking in party\u2019s Maga movement<\/p>\n
Mitch McConnell<\/a>, the Republicans\u2019 outgoing leader in the US Senate, has called on Donald Trump<\/a> to avoid an \u201cisolationist\u201d foreign policy during his looming second presidency \u2013 and urged him to back up a surge in American \u201chard power\u201d by continuing to support Ukraine in its war against Russia.<\/p>\n In a 5,000-word essay in Foreign Affairs<\/a> magazine, McConnell, 82 \u2013 who retires as the GOP Senate leader at the end of this term in 2027 \u2013 takes issue with a strand of foreign policy thinking in the party\u2019s pro-Trump \u201cMake America great again\u201d (Maga) movement, which casts China as the US\u2019s biggest threat and advocates turning away from the war in Ukraine to tackle challenges in Asia.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Republicans\u2019 outgoing US Senate leader takes issue with foreign policy thinking in party\u2019s Maga movement Mitch McConnell, the Republicans\u2019 outgoing leader in the US Senate, has called on Donald Trump to avoid an \u201cisolationist\u201d foreign policy during his looming second presidency \u2013 and urged him to back up a surge in American \u201chard power\u201d by … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}