Maryland veterans join pro-Ukraine GOP group: ‘There’s nothing left of the Republican Party’

'Extremely upsetting': Republican vets leaving the GOP because of Trump policy

When U.S. President Donald Trump returned to the White House on January 20, one of the major policy changes from the Biden Administration involved the Ukraine-Russia War. Biden, a scathing critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, favored aggressive military aid to Ukraine. Trump, in contrast, says he is trying to negotiate a peace plan between Ukraine and Russia but angrily berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky when he visited the Wh…

Maryland veterans join pro-Ukraine GOP group: ‘There’s nothing left of the Republican Party’

In the depths of the ocean, a young submarine officer spent his part of the Cold War on the USS Bluefish (SSN-675), a Sturgeon-class fast-attack submarine built to track and sink Soviet ballistic missile subs. That officer was John Ronning, now 71, of Baltimore. A self-described lifelong Republican, he’s one of five Marylanders featured in Republicans for Ukraine, a national coalition launched by Defending Democracy Together, a nonprofit advocac…