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Edward Luce

Trump’s Republicans are now Putin’s puppets

Republicans have a stark choice before the US presidential election: help Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky or pay fealty to Donald Trump.

The last time David Cameron, Britain’s foreign secretary, urged Capitol Hill to pass Ukraine aid, he was told to “kiss my ass” by Marjorie Taylor Greene, one of the most vocal pro-Russia Republicans.

Washington largely treated the Georgia legislator as a joke when she was first elected. Now Greene is threatening the speakership of her party leader, Mike Johnson, if he tries to pass Ukraine funding. Her threat is not empty.

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Edward Luce is the Washington columnist and commentator for the Financial Times. He writes about American politics and the economy.

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