Real Republicans know that Our Beloved President will (try to) do what is best for the United States, and dictator Putin will do what he thinks is best for Russia. Whether Putin is a bad person or not doesn't enter into it.
Therefore, our motivation in the current mess is NOT to punish Russia for being BAD, but rather to convince Russia that a peaceful resolution of the conflict is in its best interests.
Parenthetically, it is not clear to rational observers that continuing to feed the Ukrainian war machine is being "pro-Ukraine." Ukraine will be much better off with peace and a ton of Western investment, even if it has to give up a few acres of territory, along with Zelensky's hope of NATO membership.
I am pro-Ukraine and I want the carnage to stop.
An interesting follow-up matter is this: What shall "we" do with the fact that Ukraine now has some of the best-trained warriors on the planet? For example, no American fighter pilots have as much real combat experience as the few lucky Ukrainians who have flying those F-16's for the past year.
dictatorships and for a strong, united West.
