Vivek Ramaswamy, a candidate for the presidential nomination from the Republican Party of the USA, who is in the top three in terms of popularity among Republican supporters, promises to recognize the Russian occupation of Ukraine and block its path to NATO if elected president.
There’s that too, but as late as 2015 the GOP was still largely anti-Russia.
Some of them claimed that they were, but they do a lot of lying, and the money stream certainly goes back a lot further than that.