GOP presidential primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy says that his foreign policy would center on dislocating Russia from its close partnership with China. Ramaswamy again emphasized his plan in an interview with Fox News on Friday.
"The Russia-China alliance is the greatest threat the United States faces," he continued,"I want to use the Ukraine war as a chance to break that alliance apart. That will be the single greatest advance in U.S. national security interests we've seen in a generation."
Moreover, Ukraine would never agree to Ramaswamy's use of it as a U.S. bargaining chip. Nor could Ramaswamy impose this expectation. While Ukraine's ability to conduct sustained counteroffensives against Russia is significantly dependent on U.S. aid, Kyiv could conduct effective defensive warfare in the absence of U.S. support.
In turn, to get Putin out of China's orbit and into America's corner, Ramaswamy would have to abandon U.S. treaty allies in the Baltic states and, eventually, Poland. These are America's best allies in Europe, nations whose populations love the United States and whose governments meet or exceed NATO's 2% of GDP defense spending target. These nations have sent troops to fight with the U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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