Maybe he was reading on the plane and read this part of the prescient Republican platform of 2016:
Eastern Europe. ***
For the people of Russia, we affirm our respect and our determination to maintain a friendship beyond the reach of those who wish to divide us. ...We also have a common problem: The continuing erosion of personal liberty a…
Maybe he was reading on the plane and read this part of the prescient Republican platform of 2016:
Eastern Europe. ***
For the people of Russia, we affirm our respect and our determination to maintain a friendship beyond the reach of those who wish to divide us. ...We also have a common problem: The continuing erosion of personal liberty and fundamental rights under the current officials in the Kremlin. Repressive at home and reckless abroad, their policies imperil the nations which regained their self-determination upon the collapse of the Soviet Union. We will meet the return of Russian belligerence with the same resolve that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. We will not accept any territorial change in Eastern Europe imposed by force, in Ukraine, Georgia, or elsewhere, and will use all appropriate constitutional measures to bring to justice the practitioners of aggression and assassination.
Maybe he was reading on the plane and read this part of the prescient Republican platform of 2016:
Eastern Europe. ***
For the people of Russia, we affirm our respect and our determination to maintain a friendship beyond the reach of those who wish to divide us. ...We also have a common problem: The continuing erosion of personal liberty and fundamental rights under the current officials in the Kremlin. Repressive at home and reckless abroad, their policies imperil the nations which regained their self-determination upon the collapse of the Soviet Union. We will meet the return of Russian belligerence with the same resolve that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. We will not accept any territorial change in Eastern Europe imposed by force, in Ukraine, Georgia, or elsewhere, and will use all appropriate constitutional measures to bring to justice the practitioners of aggression and assassination.
What happened to that position?