Garcia-Navarro: There was just a poll out showing that Putin was more popular among Republicans than any senior Democratic leader, including the American president. We heard that former President Donald Trump seemingly praised Putin’s actions, calling them an act of genius. Ross, Republicans seem to be all over the place in regard to Russia. And on the one hand, there are decisions that President Biden will have to make. But we also have to look at what the American political landscape is.Douthat: I don’t think that poll quite captured what was going on. What it captures is that you have polarization in this country where Republicans don’t think well of any Democratic leader at all. But the number of Republicans who actually said they were favorably disposed to Putin was small, too, right? So you’re sort of conflating two different kinds of attitudes. If you polled liberals about Donald Trump at the height of the pandemic, they would have given him 5 percent approval ratings, too. So I’m a little skeptical of that.I think what you see from Republicans is there’s a mixture of things in play. There’s a faction in the Republican Party that is sort of shaped by the Iraq experience, shaped by the failures of U.S. foreign policy that has become distinctly noninterventionist in a way that shades into a kind of excuse-making for Putin, a kind of attitude of, why should we care? Basically what you get from Tucker Carlson’s broadcasts, right?But that’s not at all the dominant attitude in the Republican Party. The dominant attitude in the Republican Party is this more of a partisan-inflected view that says, this is really bad, and the problem is Joe Biden was weak and wasn’t tough enough. And Putin didn’t attack while Trump was president because he knew that Trump wouldn’t let him get away with it.Then there’s Trump himself, who clearly admires authoritarian leaders. That’s not in question, right? So when Putin does something like this, you get the immediate Trump sound bite of, he’s being very smart and very tough. But then Trump also wants to say, this never would have happened had I been president, right? So it’s a complicated mixture, but fundamentally, there isn’t a strong pro-Russian contingent in the Republican Party, outside of, you know, something Steve Bannon says on his —Garcia-Navarro: People though with pretty big megaphones.Douthat: Right, there are some people with big megaphones. But if you look at polls, there was a poll of how involved should the U.S. be in Ukraine. And what was striking, most people said not deeply involved, somewhat involved. The partisan breakdown was actually totally similar. Republicans, Democrats and independents looked quite similar. So I think there’s actually a fairly strong American consensus that this is bad. There’s also a fairly strong American consensus that we don’t want to send in ground troops. And most of our politicians, Republicans and Democrats, are going to operate within that consensus, at least until the next presidential cycle gets going, and then things could get a little crazier.Garcia-Navarro: So where does that leave President Biden, Farah, in your view?Stockman: He’s in a really tough space. This is the second big foreign policy crisis. And a lot of people will say, well, the way the U.S. got out of Afghanistan is partly responsible for this. Look, we need to show that NATO is going to be stronger and more united and more active along its actual borders than ever before and show Putin that whatever he’s doing right now is going to produce the exact opposite results of what he wants to achieve. I think that’s the best outcome we can get right now.