President Joe Biden pleaded with Republicans on Wednesday for a fresh infusion of military aid for Ukraine, warning that a victory for Russia over Ukraine would leave Moscow in position to attack NATO allies and could draw U.S. troops into a war.

Biden spoke as the United States planned to announce $175 million in additional Ukraine aid from its dwindling supply of money for Kyiv. He signaled a willingness to make significant changes to U.S. migration policy along the border with Mexico to try to draw Republican support.

“If Putin takes Ukraine, he won’t stop there,” Biden said. Putin will attack a NATO ally, he predicted, and then “we’ll have something that we don’t seek and that we don’t have today: American troops fighting Russian troops,” Biden said.

“We can’t let Putin win,” he said, prompting an angry reaction from Moscow.

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    He’s pleading with traitors to not be traitors, I don’t see it happening

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    Where is the military industrial complex when you need them? Come on guys, we know you want the bomb money. Send your lobbyists to threaten Republicans with a lot of ads about how they’re un-Patriotic and anti-American for opposing new war funding.

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    A goddamn disgrace AND they’re hurting America in the long-term. If America can’t even back up Ukraine in delivering them aid, literally a drop in the bucket compared to how much we spend on our own military, what the hell are we good for anymore? American foreign policy is so dysfunctional and schizophrenic, we’re absolutely unreliable thanks to these dumb Republicans doing the bidding of Putin. We’re getting the best return on our investment in helping the Ukrainians compared to most of the Cold War era spending on our own military. We could spend 20 years throwing money into the trash trying to help Afghanistan and yet somehow only 2 years of fighting in Ukraine is too much?

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      we’re absolutely unreliable

      You’ve always been unreliable allies. You entered WWI & II only after the wars were starting to be won. You’re closest allies (UK) fought the Battle of Britain and suffered the Blitz while your congress sat on it’s arse proclaiming neutrality and isolationism.

      There’s nothing unusual about this and the people of Europe know this. The Western Betrayal in Poland. France leaving NATO becaus eit didn’t trust the US nuclear umbrella.

      You’re Congress has always been a bunch of self-serving cowards. You’re people were supportive of Hitler in the early days of Nazism. Same shit, different Century.

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    What a fucking disgraceful and monstrous bunch. This is a scourge that must be goddamn excised, each one of them.

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        Honestly, its just the goddamn selfishness and refusal to understand it will always come back and bite us all in the ass. So damn nearsighted + short-term crackhead thinking. They always think they’ll be long gone and skip town when the bill comes due and their fraud is exposed

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    Ukrainians fighting and spending blood against Russians armed with US arms, sounds like a good plan to send more arms to them.

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    Republicans hold our own government hostage by refusing to pass continuing resolutions and allowing government debt to be paid. You expect them to give a damn about anyone else?

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    As if we can, lol. Pamfilova will pull rabbit from her ass 80/80 from ДЭГ

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    Genocide Joe just wants to give billions to israel. He doesn’t care about Ukraine they are already talking about dropping them.

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    Why aren’t we allowed to start asking questions about all this foreign aid without being crucified? Is it really that unimportant that Republicans ask for more border funds and funds for Israel with these propose aids for other countries? It’s amazing that the rest of the world shits on America for getting in everyone else’s business, but then, always wants us to do more…

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      Ask question but commit to defending Democracy without playing games then. And how about outing most of your party for being on the take with Russian funding?