Rep. Don Bacon leaves the Capitol Hill Club after a meeting of the House Republican Conference on March 25, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
"European Allies and U.S. should arm Ukraine to the max and help them defend their country against the Russians, and now the North Koreans and Chinese," Bacon declared in a post on X.
Some Americans oppose the prospect of providing additional aid to bolster Ukraine's war effort.
But Bacon contends that backing Ukraine is in America's interests.
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"Supporting Ukraine in its struggle against Russian aggression is not only morally right. It is also in our national interest, because the future cost of abandoning Ukraine would vastly outweigh the investment we have made in rejecting Russia’s aggression," he wrote in a New York Times piece.
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"In recent weeks, too many of my fellow Republicans – including Mr. Trump – have treated Russia with velvet gloves, shying away from calling out Mr. Putin’s flatly illegal war and even blaming Ukraine for starting it," Bacon declared in the piece.
Alex Nitzberg is a writer for Fox News Digital.
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