Speaking about Russia’s large-scale attack on Ukraine on 29 December, US President Joe Biden has emphasised that Congress must act quickly to approve more aid for Kyiv.
Source: European Pravda with reference to the White House
Details: The American president stressed that the most recent Russian attack is “a stark reminder to the world that, after nearly two years of this devastating war, Putin’s objective remains unchanged. He seeks to obliterate Ukraine and subjugate its people.”
Meanwhile, Israel: “Hey, we need some more shit. Get on that will you?!”
Biden: “Yes yes! I’ll just… go around congress, do some other fancy talking and you can keep doing your genocide; but more efficiently now.”I think part of the difference is that Israel is a paying customer on that last deal.
Probably paying us money we sent them in the first place.
I don’t think that’s the case for this specific package of 155 mm shell accessories.
I could be wrong.
Meanwhile… I’m voting for Trump next election if the democrats run biden.
Trump backed an Israeli Single State Solution (which means the annihilation of Palestine). He also tried to withhold all aid to Ukraine.
Vote for a third party so they will at least see the numbers of their voters leaving.
What do you dislike about Biden that Trump doesn’t have? What do you like about Trump that Biden doesn’t have?
Legitimate question: Why?
some people just want the world to burn.
That, or, they’re plotting world domination, and getting trump re-elected would make that simpler. no matter how evil you get, people will be like “well, at least, they’re not trump.”
the fuck is the west doing?
I mean it should be obvious that it will get a lot worse and a lot more expensive if we allow the Russians to win, not to mention that we then share a border with a country lead by a complete degenerate dictator who wants to eradicate our way of life.
And all I see is the US and my own country Germany fucking around and providing only the bare minimum…
In 2016 the US Republican Party radically changed to support Trump. Moderates became radicals overnight. There was always a specter of Russia compromising a lot of them.
The republicans represent Putin.
Putin is playing the long game by buying up political parties all over Europe and the US for the last decade, and now it’s starting to pay off.
They’re busy financing the genocide in Gaza. Ukrainians can go fuck themselves apparently.
I am from slovakia and the support for the Ukraine war is dwindling among the boomers, listening to my family regurgitate russian fake news about how Zelinsky bought a five million dollar villa in Egypt and then had the journalist killed is just fucked.
I guess it shows the strength of Orbans propaganda machine since we are hungarian and they watch those channels
I think the best way to look at it is to see their side. If your relatives are similar to mine, they don’t really care about Ukraine or Zelensky. Not even in a negative way. They just want simple solutions to their problems that are actually very complex.
You understand that having a fleet of Migs that depend on russian technicians is not a reasonable thing if the biggest warmonger in the neighborhood is russia itself. You understand that Slovakia can’t depend on russian gas or oil after russia proved many times, that they will not hesitate to use this dependency every opportunity they get. You understand that making concessions to russia for a promise of peace isn’t going to stop them, because we tried that many times before. You understand that none of these problems have simple solutions.
But many people choose to be ignorant and believe politicians that promise simple solutions. “We will stop supporting war, negotiate peace in Ukraine and buy cheap reliable russian energy again” It sounds good, it sounds easy. So they will believe any lie that supports this “solution”. Or pretend they believe it, because frankly in many cases I know they aren’t really that stupid to believe some of the lies. They just choose to be ignorant and don’t ask questions.
How can you depend on russian gas again if you saw them draining EU gas storage year before the invasion and after you saw them cheerfully proclaiming that your family will freeze to death? You can’t. But people choose to ignore reality, because they don’t like how it looks.
When you look at it this way, you understand that there’s no reason to discuss Ukraine with your family. Because it’s really not about Ukraine. It’s about how much they pay for their groceries. And it’s easier to believe that corrupt Zelensky is to be blamed for expensive bread rather than the fact that we trusted corrupt unstable country with our energy dependency and now have a lot of work, tears and blood ahead of us to dig ourselves from the hole we dug for decades.
Why doesn’t Biden just bypass Congress for Ukraine like he does for Israel’s genocide?
Because Israel is buying weapons with cash. Ukraine needs aid. Congress controls the money.
If Ukraine showed up with cash to buy weapons, Biden could immediately approve it.
I believe he has. The President has some emergency spending authority, some amount of any type of aid he can give before congressional authorization but it’s limited in both amount and time. The goal is to allow faster response in emergencies but not usurp congress’ control over budgeting. Congress has approved several packages of aid and the President has executed them. It’s time for another
In particular, the temporary measure to prevent government shutdown specifically did not include more aid to Ukraine. Among the many reasons I hope that’s approved quickly is they do need to approve longer term budgets before the temporary measure runs out, and it would be unfortunate if it turns into another political stunt
No lobbyists
Fucking do it
I agree with him here, I just wish he was consistent.
“I did an executive order twice to give Israel weapons and money but am going to pretend that I can not do the same thing for Ukraine (or legalization of Marijuana)”
The United States still does not have a federal budget.
