Welcome to Beg to Beg to Differ,

The Bullworks Weekly Roundtable discussion

featuring civil conversation across the political spectrum.

We range from center left to center right.

I'm Mona Charon, syndicated columnist and policy editor at the Bulwark, and I'm joined

by our regulars Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution in the Wall Street Journal and Damon Linker who writes the sub-stack newsletter Eyes on the right.

And Linda Chavez of the Niskannon Center will be joining us just a few minutes later today.

Our special guest this week is Bill Crystal, editor at large of the Bullwork.

So welcome, one and all. Bill, thanks for joining us. I was very

interested in a piece you had this week, Bill, in American Purpose, which was sort of a warning call about how we are handling the matter of

Ukraine, and you asked whether we are losing our nerve.

And along those lines, let me just set this up

by pointing out that a few days ago,

a group of 11 House Republicans,

led by Representative Matt Gates unveiled what they called a quote

Ukraine fatigue unquote resolution which stated that the US must end its

military and financial aid to Ukraine and

urge the combatants to reach a peace agreement. Now he doesn't speak for the

majority of the party but there's a big strain of Ukraine fatigue among

Republicans and even among some Democrats. Well there's some strain and the

question is how big it gets and some of that is in our control or in the control of others who sort of give it a lot of oxygen or don't, you know, and argue back.

But first of all, it's good to be with all of you and so Jeff Gedman my friend and friend I think of most of us on this

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