U.S. President Donald Trump in New York, U.S., on June 9, 2026. (Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Images)A widening split inside the online pro-Trump political ecosystem is exposing a growing ideological fracture over U.S. foreign policy, particularly America's war against Iran and Russia's all-out assault on Ukraine.What some analysts and participants describe as a "MAGA civil war" has emerged as a visible rupture within the American conservative movement, dividing former allies of U.S. President Donald Trump who have turned sharply critical of his foreign policy positions from those who remain aligned with him.American journalist and commentator Michael Weiss describes the breakaway group as the "conspiratorial wing of MAGA," a faction he says includes former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, commentator Candace Owens, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, and former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.Then-U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks alongside then-presidential candidate Donald Trump at a campaign event in Rome, Georgia, U.S., on March 9, 2024. (Elijah Nouvelage / AFP / Getty Images)"They have decided that U.S. foreign policy after the October 7 attack, Gaza, and Iran can only be explained by Trump having fallen under the sway of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a certain ethnic group," Weiss told the Kyiv Independent. "This group has long been anti-Ukraine and pro-Russia, but now they're also anti-Trump because they oppose Israel and he's the first U.S. president to have gone to war alongside Israel."The split has played out across podcasts, social media platforms, and international events, where figures once firmly associated with Trump's political rise have increasingly broken from him or reframed his foreign policy positions as a betrayal of "America First" principles.One of the most visible figures in that breakaway cohort has been Owens, who recently appeared as a featured American guest at Russia's attempted alternative to Davos, where she was received warmly by attendees and echoed themes long associated by critics with Kremlin messaging.U.S. alt-right influencer Candace Owens attends the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on June 4, 2026. (Olga Maltseva / AFP / Getty Images)"The Russians see the defectors from Trump's movement — such as Owens, Carlson, and Marjorie Taylor Greene — as a political insurgency worth cultivating because rapprochement with the U.S. has failed and Ukraine is not only surviving but thriving," Weiss said.Ahead of the event, Owens posted on social media praising Moscow as "clean, beautiful, and ordered," and said, "The Christian expression and heritage here is unmatched," while visiting the Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces, a recently built complex honoring Russia's military.