Speaking of the intersection of domestic politics and Ukraine war.....
[Robert Kagan, William Kristol's longtime collaborator and Victoria Nuland's husband, has been an unremitting opponent of Donald Trump.
The prominent neoconservative Robert Kagan
has resigned his position as an editor at large at the
Washington Post due to the paper's Friday decision
not to endorse a candidate for president. ]
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/neocon-grandee-kagan-resigns-over-post-non-endorsement/[Kagan has had a long career within neoconservative politics,
founding with William Kristol of the Project for a New American Century. Both Kagan and Kristol advocating for regime-change in Iraq long-before the Iraq war, including in a
New York Times op-ed in 1998. Throughout the conflict, Kagan
repeatedly praised the Iraq War, declaring victory multiple times,
praising the "surge," and claiming after the invasion that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction were merely yet to be found. More recently, Kagan has served as a senior fellow at the
Brookings Institution.
Kagan is married to Victoria Nuland, a State Department official best known for her hawkish and anti-Russian views, including for her role in Ukraine's 2014 "Maidan" Color Revolution, and her promotion of the Russiagate hoax.]