Posted on 12/06/2023 11:19:01 AM PST by Enterprise
During a private briefing before Congress on Tuesday, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin threatened to deploy American troops to Ukraine if further aid funding for the war-torn nation is not approved by Congress.
Breitbart reports that during the briefing, Congressman Michael McCaul (R-Texas), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, took Austin’s side and claimed without evidence that “if [Vladimir] Putin takes over Ukraine, he’ll get Moldova, Georgia, then maybe the Baltics.”
“And then the idea that we’ll have to put troops on the ground in Secretary Austin’s word was very likely,” McCaul continued. “That’s what we’re trying to avoid.”
Meanwhile, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) disagreed with McCaul and Austin’s assessments, saying “I don’t think we got the clarity that we’ve been requesting,” and adding that “it remains to be seen whether members are satisfied with the answers provided.”
Congressman John Duarte (R-Calif.) said that he believed the briefing was “prescriptive and staged,” and that he “didn’t get a sense that any minds were changed in there.”
“It wasn’t impressive or insightful in any way other than what you might see in the news. It was just a hopeful pressure effort,” Duarte continued, before saying that his advice to Biden was to “start negotiating and quit screwing around with vacuous briefings that tell us things we already know.”
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Musk’s response to blackmail threats is appropriate here.
Would Biden actually dare do this?
What about the domestic white supremasist threat?
It would happen and Biden wouldn't know about it.
I’ve got news for Lloyd, Putin’s pretty much already taken over the Ukraine. 😏
Biden cant even find his way off the stage. This is turning out to be a redo of Blazing Saddles.
That will be the excuse, somehow.
They'll have to put that on hold. The globalhomos MUST get access to the oil and mineral wealth, and child trafficking of Ukraine first.
Ditto!
just in..
Cabinet memeber declares WWIII if Ukraine does not get money..
It’s time to deploy Austin to a retirement home
What's infuriating is that Austin knows that, yet he would send thousands of Americans to their deaths to appease the globalhomos.
Hey Lloyd. Deploy them and watch them start throwing hissy fits. If they don’t want vaccine shot, they sure as hell aren’t going to want to be sent to a place where they can die just as suddenly as if they received a vaccine shot. This isn’t the old patriotic Army anymore. These guys love man buns, selfies, getting vasectomies for their girlfriends and eating at Taco Bell.
I’m sure Austin is eager to strap on a couple of pearl handled revolvers, suit up in a tank, and go over there and git ‘er done.
“if [Vladimir] Putin takes over Ukraine....”
Not at all likely given the Russians learned painful lessons near Kiev.
Austin don’t need no stinking congress ,D’oh
This Veteran of the Vietnam war suggests no, but thanks very much anyway.
I don’t think there’s any chance of that happening. Its all rhetoric. I don’t think Austin is in control of our troops. Just my opinion.
Is that what they are doing? Using the money Biden is giving them to buy off Pooty Pooh?
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