Posted on 04/28/2022 4:49:25 PM PDT by kiryandil
Good God, I hope everyone in Congress recognizes what this bill, which apparently has now passed and Biden will sign it (seeing as he asked for it directly), means.
Let's recap. Per our Constitution the military is under civilian control. That is, the actions of the military, including weapons used by same or suitable for same, are under the control of Congress and The Executive.
Congress must authorize anything that leads to expense, and such must come from The House. Again, this is basic Constitution stuff.
Now Congress has explicitly authorized, and Biden will sign, this bill that specifically permits the transfer to Ukraine of basically anything other than nuclear material. Seriously folks -- that's the only real exception found in the referenced definition.
By agreeing to provide direct weaponry that can be and will be used in the waging of war by one of the two parties to same we have entered the conflict. That our GIs are not directly there is of no consequence. This is no different than shipping arms to Britain during WWI in the Lusitania or the lend-lease provisions in early WWII that ultimately led us to get involved there in Europe. Indeed Pelosi directly referenced those early WWII provisions indicating that she knows damn well the implications of what Congress just did.
In fact it was lend-lease of March 1941 that led Hitler to come after the United States; we had entered the war as a belligerent by officially agreeing to supply war material to Britain.
In those two wars there was no realistic means for the Germans or other Axis powers to hit us directly on our own soil. But they did in fact do that in response when they sunk the Lusitania, which had a bunch of Americans on board. They could reach that ship...
(Excerpt) Read more at market-ticker.org ...
“...and they gathered to a place called Armageddon.”
N A M. II
Pat Buchanan wrote a book in the 90s with an alternative view of history WRT Pearl Harbor and the events that led up to it. It was an interesting read. I don’t necessarily agree with him but there were things that he put a different light on that should be at least considered and how Roosevelt baited the Japanese, the way Blinken et.al. are baiting the Rooskies.
In any event, this will not end well for any of us.
Apparently, the Ukrainian railroads are electric.
The Russians are targeting the substations which provide the juice.
These are apparently NOT diesel-electric locomotives, and their power supply being in a fixed location is bad news for their rail transport.
You know, marktwain - I have had to go offsite to get accurate information on this conflict.
This is unusual for Free Republic.
I'm watching The Duran daily, and also the two guys who make up the Duran channel have their own separate channels.
Alex Christoforou is the younger Greek guy in Greece and Cyprus [I like his style]: https://www.youtube.com/c/AlexChristoforou/videos channel
Alexander Mercouris is the older Greek-English gentleman in England [he's a character!]: https://www.youtube.com/c/AlexanderMercourisReal/videos channel
Indeed.
We will not fight or listen to the baby womb killers in government.
We never supplied OBL
Anyway, You remark is irrelevant to my point.
Again,
Another remark irrelevant to the point.
Yes we did. He was high up in the Mujahideen.
That’s who fought the Russians.
Money, weapons, and training.
But you support the Russian govt that kills babys in the womb in Russis and out of the womb in Ukraine.
Nope. NEver happened.
Again, irrelevant.
Good question.
No, I’m done.
The new president of Afghanistan was Nur Mohammad Taraki. He claimed that its policies were based on Afghan nationalism, Islamic principles, socioeconomic justice and nonalignment with foreign powers. The new regime announced its reform programs: elimination of usury, equal rights for women, land reforms, and administrative decrees. Many in Afghanistan felt threatened by the reforms. Tensions rose. The Taraki regime began arresting opponents, and it signed a treaty of friendship with the Soviet Union. Uncoordinated rebellions arose across Afghanistan. An Afghan guerrilla movement, the Mujahideen, was born. In 1979, Leonid Brezhnev of the Soviet Union sent 80,000 military personnel into Afghanistan, telling the administration of President Jimmy Carter that he was doing so at the request of Afghanistan's government.
The Saudis, with their abundance of petro-dollars, began aiding the Mujahideen – the Saudis spending from 20 to 25 million dollars a month. Maybe as many as 2,000 Arab volunteers went to Afghanistan to fight alongside the Mujahideen – some of them released from prisons in Egypt, the Egyptian government happy to be rid of them. Some Wahhabi fundamentalists from Saudi Arabia also joined with the Mujahideen. One of them was a 25-year-old idealist named Osama bin Laden. Rather than pursue pleasure that inherited wealth had made possible for him, bin Laden was interested in advancing the cause of Islam, and, in 1982, while fighting for the Mujahideen, he was wounded in the foot.
Yeppers.
Thanks. I knew but didn’t care to waste time showing it to a blind eye.
I am astonished to see that so many people on our “side” has gone along with the mass hysteria.
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Short memory, but no surprise here. The sheeple lined up for experimental jabs that didn’t work ( the Covid vax hoax) only months ago.
“I would imagine a lot of freepers are way too old to be very useful in a war.”
Hey! You aren’t supposed to make it personal! Quit looking in my window!
I must have missed that in the movie. :)
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