“We have issued the last package that we had withdrawn and for which we had funding,” John Kirby said. White House National Security Council strategic communications coordinator John Kirby said at a briefing Thursday that “the assistance we were providing has come to a halt.”
The White House official also said it is very important that Congress continues to approve the allocation of money to Ukraine. He stressed that Kiev needs help more urgently during the winter period.
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Putin is going to give all of his U.S. congressional pawns a big bonus this week.
MTG and Boebert will be dining out at the finest roadside BBQ restaurant in their districts tonight
maybe even see a movie, exchange dick pics…
a nice handjob between courses
That does sound nice.
It’s sad to watch these world leaders who understand long strategy use the short American attention span to twist global politics to their own ends.
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Ruble isn’t doing great tho 🤣
That’s fine, he’ll just take the money out of one of his Swiss bank accounts.
I could have sworn that The Swiss froze all Russian accounts. Like I vaguely remember a major headline that The Swiss had broken a several hundred year “neutrality” streak.
I think it’s OK to put the blame where appropriate here. “U.S. Republican Congressional pawns.”
The headline is a bit misleading, as you can see in the 2nd paragraph of the submission text, it’s the current round of assistance that has halted, and they’re pushing for Congress to continue their support of Ukraine.
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How the hell did we go from McCarthyism to “hurting Russia is less important than hurting democrats” in this hellhole?
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It’s pretty easy for a foreign government to buy a small handful of US Congresspeople or Senators to do their bidding.
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Because McCarthyism wasn’t about being anti-Russia, it was about being anti-communist. And since Communism is generally (always?) politically left, it’s still and always has been about being reactionary conservative.
It wasn’t even about political alignment, it was about trotting out a bogeyman to scare people into reactionary voting instead of informed voting.
Same as it ever was.
Same as it ever was.
Well there’s been about forty to fifty years between them. So… a lot?
Dark money and the southern strategy.
Once the cold war was over they needed a new enemy to vilify.
Purposely so, that site was using sources and links to RT news.
Yeah, the site is suspect. The article uses the Russian spelling “Kiev” instead of the Ukranian “Kyiv,” which is a giveaway that the site might be spreading Russian propaganda. Also:
Argentina seems to show a particularly interesting trend. The country has the region’s highest number of RT online readers, and, in 2014, it was one of the first countries in the region to allow RT to broadcast on public television. Current Argentine President Alberto Fernandez has since added Telesur, the Venezuelan television network, to his country’s basic national television service. Telesur now streams Russian propaganda and disinformation to 83% of the Argentine population. Given the reach of these outlets, it is an unlikely coincidence that 67.4% of Argentinian residents said in 2020 that they view Russia favorably.
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Argentina has a lot of Russians that go there to have their baby. Apparently the baby gets citizenship if born there. So a lot of Russian young couples go there apparently.
What does having Argentinian citizenship get you though, from a Russian’s perspective?
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And it’s not that it has halted.
It has concluded.
It being halted would mean that that which was meant to be allocated is stopped from being allocated before all of it was allocated.
I’m sure Ukraine appreciates the difference.
If Zelensky and Ukrainians actions and words are an indicator, yes, they appreciate the difference between bullshit and saying what’s what.
Have you missed them pleading for continued US support?
It’s clear that Ukraine is of “National Security Interests”. So I vote we just take a lil bit of the budget allocated for military spending and use it where it would be best served.
it’s mostly a gear refresh for our military anyway. we send them stuff we have stockpiled, then we spend the allocated money on new shit for us.
That’s exactly what the US was doing.
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I say we send volunteers from the US military directly, and all their equipment too. I’m sure we can find plenty of right wing dumbasses in the ranks to chew up. Solves three problems at once!
I say that if we’re volunteering other people’s lives we start with yours. You can’t simultaneously say that the Russian military threat is real and also that people in the military have disposable lives. That’s precisely how Republicans view the military.
That is how all militaries work though.
Funny how are government starts fucking up the war most Americans support AND fucking up the other one that most Americans don’t support.
One of those effects the transfer of capital far more than the other. The whole reason we have a navy is to police international waters for commerce.
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A Navy in general, Yes. Our Navy was specifically set up to kick pirate ass, and make the high seas safe for trade. It’s in the first paragraph of the charter. Jefferson super babby hated pirates.
To the shores of Tripoli!
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Just so we’re paying attention to our news sources,
i can post peoples world as a counter source
Take the Israel weapon donations, ship them through a sketchy ukranian subcontractor in Ukraine, “lose them” in such a way the ukraine government “aquires” them. Two problems solved.
There isn’t any funding for Israel either. The bill they’re working on now has Israel, Ukraine, and additional US border security dollars in there.
That is selling arms to Israel, doesn’t require US funding.
Israel didn’t get donations. They paid for them. If Ukraine showed up with $1B, the US would sell them weapons too.
(Ignoring that US gives Israel and Egypt billions just to not fight.)
We could send all of the people fighting the war on drugs, they’re used to achieving nothing.
Most cops would never make it through that much required training, tbh.
Still, more training than the Russians are given, and no one wants the boys in blue back, so: win/win.
