Douglas Murray Is Wrong on Ukraine
“How can the right be so wrong?” This refreshingly provocative pun serves as the opening salvo in British author Douglas Murray’s broadside against MAGA’s stance on Ukraine. Murray, undeniably gifted with words — if less so with ideas — initially led me to suspect that this was a lazy editor’s bait, cast to hook as many closeted neocons as possible. Sadly, the rest of his piece proved me wrong.
In it, we never learn exactly how MAGA gets it so wrong regarding Ukraine because Murray busies himself chasing fringe conspiracies instead of addressing core arguments head-on.
For starters, he conveniently sidesteps the clear point Trump made directly to Zelenskyy last week in the Oval Office: continuing this path risks World War III and nuclear annihilation, while American taxpayers pour hundreds of billions annually into a bloody stalemate that claims two thousand lives each week — all without any clear resolution.
Instead of addressing the undeniable practical concerns of the present, Murray bases his argument on a perceived MAGA shortsightedness about the past. He contends that Ukraine only entered American consciousness twice in the past decade — through Hunter Biden’s shady dealings and Trump’s impeachment over a phone call with Zelenskyy. In doing so, he implicitly accuses MAGA supporters of behaving as if the war started in 2022. Ironically, by overlooking two critical issues consistently raised by MAGA — the U.S. support for the EU-driven overthrow of Ukraine’s pro-Russia government in 2014 (the Euromaidan affair) and NATO’s relentless eastward expansion — Murray himself might be guilty of such oversight.
As is often true, the accuser unwittingly exposes more about himself. Murray belittles MAGA a
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