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Ukraine: the chapter records three competing conservative positions and picks none

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 6, p. 182. Written by Kiron K. Skinner.

Ukraine: the chapter records three competing conservative positions and picks none

The document says “must”Who acts: PresidentHow: not specifiedp. 182 in the PDF
What the document says

“continued U.S. involvement must be fully paid for; limited to military aid”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 182

This chapter does not resolve its own position on Ukraine. It sets out one view favoring continued involvement including military and economic aid and the presence of NATO and American troops if necessary, a second holding that European nations should aid Ukraine's defense while the United States ends its involvement and presses for a negotiated settlement, and a third that asks first what is in the interest of the American people. The quoted words come from that third position. The chapter states that the common ground is that presidential leadership in 2025 must chart the course.

What the document actually says

“continued U.S. involvement must be fully paid for; limited to military aid”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 182
That sentence, in plain words

If America stays involved, it must be paid for. It should be weapons only.

What this is about

The book does not settle what to do about Ukraine. It lays out three views. One says keep helping. One says stop. One says only help if it is paid for and limited.

Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. The chapter sets out three conservative positions on Ukraine and adopts none, so there is no proposal for an action to answer. The candidates include two annual notices continuing the national emergency with respect to Ukraine first declared in 2014 and an order modifying duties on the Russian Federation. Recording any of them here would attribute to the book a position it deliberately leaves open. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.

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    Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves (The Heritage Foundation, 2023), p. 182.
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    “Ukraine: the chapter records three competing conservative positions and picks none,” Project 2025, chapter 6, p. 182. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch06-ukraine-unresolved/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).

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