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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He was shot in the heel, wasn’t he?
I hope not because this would make nuclear war pretty likely when Putin starts to lose big time.
The colossal arrogance of this affirmative action feculent Geitenneuker is astounding. The U.S. already has troops in the Ukraine. What he is saying is that it will be publicly announced. How large is Austin’s cut of the Ukrainian swill?
Does anyone believe the U.S. congress will display any backbone? The U.S. Constitution was dead a long time ago.
Austin is an idiot.
That idiot clown does what he is told to do by the Easter Bunny.....
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