Laura Loomer’s Reversal on Ukraine Stirs Up the MAGA Civil War

劳拉·卢默在乌克兰问题上的立场反转引发了“让美国再次伟大”（MAGA）阵营的内战

For years, Laura Loomer’s position on Ukraine was crystal clear. It was “a country full of Nazi apologists” led by “a Jihadi apologist.” Loomer, a conspiracy theorist and avid Trump supporter, called American politicians who supported Ukraine in its war against Russia “traitors.”

多年来，劳拉·卢默（Laura Loomer）在乌克兰问题上的立场一直非常明确。她曾称乌克兰是一个“充斥着纳粹辩护者”的国家，并由一位“圣战辩护者”领导。作为一名阴谋论者和特朗普的狂热支持者，卢默曾将那些在俄乌战争中支持乌克兰的美国政客称为“叛徒”。

But Loomer, who traveled to Ukraine last week, has changed her tune. She has posted a seemingly endless stream of content from the country, including a sit-down interview with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and pictures of her eating McDonald’s surrounded by bombed-out buildings in the capital, Kyiv.

然而，上周前往乌克兰的卢默改变了口径。她在社交媒体上发布了大量来自该国的内容，包括对乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基（Volodymyr Zelenskyy）的专访，以及她在首都基辅被炸毁的建筑群中吃麦当劳的照片。

Earlier this month, hours after news broke of Senator Lindsey Graham’s death, Loomer was the first to raise the conspiracy theory that Russia was responsible. “Did Russia just murder a US Senator?” Loomer wrote on X.

本月初，在参议员林赛·格雷厄姆（Lindsey Graham）去世的消息传出几小时后，卢默率先提出了俄罗斯对此负责的阴谋论。卢默在X（原推特）上写道：“俄罗斯刚刚谋杀了一位美国参议员吗？”

Loomer is on one side of a MAGA civil war that has split Trump’s supporter base over the course of the past year. It’s not just about Russia, either: While figures like far-right podcaster Candace Owens, former Fox News star Tucker Carlson, and former congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene have split with President Donald Trump over his failure to deliver on campaign promises, the war with Iran, and the administration’s close ties to the Israeli government, Loomer has remained loyal.

卢默处于MAGA内战的一方，这场内战在过去一年里分裂了特朗普的支持者基础。这不仅仅关乎俄罗斯：尽管像极右翼播客坎迪斯·欧文斯（Candace Owens）、前福克斯新闻明星塔克·卡尔森（Tucker Carlson）和前女众议员玛乔丽·泰勒·格林（Marjorie Taylor Greene）等人物，因特朗普未能兑现竞选承诺、与伊朗的战争以及政府与以色列政府的密切关系而与他分道扬镳，但卢默始终保持忠诚。

She has also spent the past year battling some of Trump’s detractors online. Following Owens’ trip to Russia in May, where the podcaster praised the country extensively, Loomer claimed that Owens was trying to “destroy MAGA.” (Loomer did not reply to a request for comment. Owens tells WIRED in a statement: “Laura Loomer is mentally unwell and has been committed against her will for psychiatric evaluation twice. We wish her well, but do not entertain her various documented delusions in the press or otherwise.”)

过去一年里，她还一直在网上与特朗普的批评者进行斗争。在欧文斯五月份访问俄罗斯并对该国大加赞赏后，卢默声称欧文斯试图“摧毁MAGA”。（卢默未回复置评请求。欧文斯在给《连线》杂志的一份声明中表示：“劳拉·卢默精神状况不佳，曾两次被强制送去进行精神评估。我们祝她一切顺利，但不会在媒体或其他场合理会她那些有据可查的妄想。”）

Loomer claims her change of heart about Ukraine was inspired by the realization that she had been “propagandized by Russian media.” Trump has a slightly different answer: “I think they support what I support,” Trump told reporters in the White House on Friday when asked about Loomer’s trip and some of the party’s reversal on Ukraine. “I know what MAGA wants better than anybody else.”

卢默声称，她对乌克兰态度的转变是因为意识到自己曾“受到俄罗斯媒体的宣传洗脑”。特朗普则给出了略有不同的回答：周五在白宫被问及卢默的行程以及党内部分人在乌克兰问题上的立场反转时，特朗普告诉记者：“我认为他们支持我所支持的。我比任何人都更了解MAGA想要什么。”

Trump has changed position on the Russia and Ukraine conflict many times over the past year. Last September, he surprised his NATO allies when he said Ukraine could win back land Russia had occupied since the beginning of the conflict, land he previously said Ukraine should just concede to Russia.

过去一年里，特朗普在俄乌冲突上的立场多次发生变化。去年9月，他曾令北约盟友感到惊讶，当时他表示乌克兰可以夺回俄罗斯自冲突开始以来占领的土地——而他此前曾表示乌克兰应该直接将这些土地让给俄罗斯。

But a month later, after a phone call with Russian president Vladimir Putin, Trump reversed course again.

但一个月后，在与俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京（Vladimir Putin）通电话后，特朗普再次改变了立场。

In recent months, Trump has continued to criticize Zelenskyy, derisively referring to him as “P. T. Barnum” in social media posts. But the administration has also turned to Ukraine for its expertise in countering drone attacks after six US service members were killed in an Iranian attack in Kuwait. On Tuesday, Zelenskyy visited the Oval Office while the Senate considered imposing harsher sanctions on Russia.

近几个月来，特朗普继续批评泽连斯基，在社交媒体帖子中嘲讽地称他为“P.T.巴纳姆”（P. T. Barnum，意指其为马戏团表演者）。但与此同时，在六名美军士兵在伊朗对科威特的袭击中丧生后，特朗普政府也向乌克兰寻求其在反无人机袭击方面的专业知识。周二，在参议院考虑对俄罗斯实施更严厉制裁之际，泽连斯基访问了椭圆形办公室。

“The primary driver of Loomer’s political posturing is her unwavering adoration of Trump, not a rigid set of ideological beliefs,” Jared Holt, senior researcher at Open Measures, tells WIRED. “While she maintains some core attitudes, including anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant beliefs, she has repeatedly shown a willingness to shift her positions if she believes it will help the president. Trump calls the tune, and Loomer follows his lead.”

“卢默政治姿态的主要驱动力是她对特朗普坚定不移的崇拜，而不是一套僵化的意识形态信仰，”Open Measures的高级研究员贾里德·霍尔特（Jared Holt）告诉《连线》杂志。“虽然她保持着一些核心态度，包括反穆斯林和反移民的信仰，但她一再表现出一种意愿：如果她认为这有助于总统，她就会改变自己的立场。特朗普定调，卢默跟随。”

What Loomer’s surprise trip to Ukraine once again shows is that the MAGA civil war is not playing out in the halls of Congress but on social media feeds, where some of Trump’s most loyal influencers have shown a willingness to do and say just about anything to maintain their standing with the MAGA base.

卢默此次对乌克兰的突访再次表明，MAGA内战并非发生在国会大厅，而是在社交媒体的信息流中。在那里，一些特朗普最忠诚的网红表现出愿意做和说任何事情，以维持他们在MAGA基本盘中的地位。