Posted on 05/14/2022 5:10:35 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Video Transcript: "The US Anti-War Left is Dead. The Squad's $40b War Vote Just Killed It." Many Dems voting YES have long denounced exactly these sorts of bills. What happened? May 14, 2022
After Joe Biden announced his extraordinary request for $33 billion more for the war in Ukraine — on top of the $14 billion the U.S. has already spent just ten weeks into this war — congressional leaders of both parties immediately decided the amount was insufficient. They arbitrarily increased the amount by $7 billion to a total of $40 billion, then fast-tracked the bill for immediate approval. As we reported on Tuesday night, the House overwhelmingly voted to approve the bill by a vote of 388-57. All fifty-seven NO votes came from Republican House members. Except for two missing members, all House Democrats — every last one, including all six members of the revolutionary, subversive Squad — voted for this gigantic war package, one of the largest the U.S. has spent at once in decades.
While a small portion of these funds will go to humanitarian aid for Ukraine, the vast majority will go into the coffers of weapons manufacturers such as Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing and the usual suspects. Some of it will go to the CIA for unspecified reasons. The extreme speed with which this was all approved means there is little to no oversight over how the funds will be spent, who will profit and how much, and what the effects will be for Ukraine and the world.
“The Democrats repeat the same failed policies expecting different results. Is that not the definition of “stupid?”
Gee, that’s exactly what Republicans do.
Hey it’s for war, itemization only figures in for the results of the war. Never mind the fact we are already spending multi-billions more (Maybe hundreds) under the table by using military tech (Some probably not even Janes weekly defense magazine even knows about) helping with whatever plan Russia is messing up with the invasion and all that. Interesting times, yay!
Those first couple of years saw high inflation.
Ukraine is NOT on the threshold of victory. Many of their forces are surrounded and cut off from food and ammunition. Russia will not sit idly and watch military support pour into Ukraine. They will blow up every form of weaponry as it enters the country.
If Ukraine is doing so well why does the $40 billion have to flood into the country by NEXT WEEK?
This $40 billion is probably a last-gasp source of kickbacks to be hauled in by crooked American politicians.
You may recall Afghanistan had billions of dollars of U.S. weapons and equipment, years of U.S. training and massive military infrastructure WE built and still folded like a cheap suit in the blink of an eye.
The idea Ukraine can prevail against Russia is preposterous.
There is no place for Russia to go and they will NEVER surrender anything.
Even Sun-tzu warned never to trap an enemy with no means of retreat. Every warrior will fight to the death with the strength of TEN WARRIORS. That fight, in the case of Russia, could easily become nuclear.
The idea that a backwater, thoroughly corrupt place like Ukraine could extinguish much life on planet Earth, in a nuclear war, is pure madness. Ukraine has NO strategic value to the United States of America and is nothing but an organized crime syndicate and money laundering operation for crooked American politicians.
Nobody in charge in America gives a damn about the poor Ukrainian people or they would press for a negotiated solution.
Well my stock in Boeing and Raytheon have dropped over the last 60 days. If they are investing in these companies the stock should be up.
Well-said, wholehearted agreement bump!
“ The extreme speed with which this was all approved means there is little to no oversight over how the funds will be spent, who will profit and how much, and what the effects will be for Ukraine and the world.”
That’s the way crooks like it so there’s no accountability and they fill their pockets with kickback loot 🤪
100% agree. We need remove these greedy malfeasance and actually have a Republic.
Did you actually refer to me as a “chicken hawk”? Really?
Check out my bio before rolling out the insults, Bub.
We've stupidly entered into a hot war against the second most deadly military in history. Unlike the Afghani, who just humiliated America, the Russians can shoot back, and nuke any Democrat voter concentration off the map.
One political observation is robots aren't counted as soldiers. Had we built out an army of ground robots, we could have sent them into Ukraine rather than the $40 billion.
Not only are armored tanks obsolete, but so are human artillery shell catchers. Hopefully the Ukrainian amateur artillery catchers don't run out before they've blasted through our $40 billion in borrowed money.
What language are you actually fluent in? What is an “amateur artillery shell catcher?”
Unlike you, I have about 40 years in actual military experience, so you should translate your odd phraseology.
Thanks for posting that. Well said. Logic is too hard for some of the good folks on FR. But your effort is admirable.
Dear Chainmail,
The Pentagon has lots of peeps with a similar record as you claim. Some of them have risen to very high levels. Lots of them are dopes. So your bonafides (or claims thereof) are just sawdust at the moment.
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-bizarre-unanimous-dem-support-426?utm_source=email&s=r
This is what I got via email. I’m not a paid subscriber, so
And many here are right on-board with their Democrat brethren.
That I can see all of. I probably have it in email too. Don’t understand or approve of the gay thing but he is a smart person. I managed to get through Tucker’s one hour interview of Greenwald. Can be found on bitchute.
Looking at Russia's current military efficacy, it's starting to look like all that Cold War blood and treasure was a colossal waste.
And you join a long line of ungrateful know-it-all’s and poseurs on the Freerepublic.
I could care less of your opinions, since we haven’t heard anything of you military record. Not likely to either, are we?
Do pound sand, Bub.
Greenwald could have answered his own question about why the dims are doing this with three words:
Donald. J. Trump.
They actually think that by supporting Ukraine, they are attacking Trump.
I wish it weren’t that simple, but it is.
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