Make Ukraine Great Again
Posted on 07/05/2025 3:01:40 AM PDT by RandFan
@RepDonBacon
Mr President, your policy towards Russia is not working. While we negotiate, Putin bombs Ukrainian cities. Here is Kyiv today. It is time to change strategy. We and our allies must arm Ukraine to the teeth & we need the toughest sanctions. Putin is mocking you and America.
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Not content w/ the mega billions already in his pocket, Zelensky now says
he wants US tax dollars to Ukraine “according to the Israeli model”......here’s what he means:
Read:Congressional Research Service
US Foreign aid to Israel
60 page detailed report
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/RL/RL33222/44
The concerned Israeli lobby made sure Congress is required by law to ensure that U.S. military aid in the Middle East region doesn’t damage Israel’s military superiority over its neighbors. That requirement enjoys broad bipartisan support and has served as a benchmark for ensuring Israel receives robust U.S. support.
Biden keeps gaslighting Americans about the “need” for
American foreign aid tax dollars to Ukraine and Israel.
Here’s why they DONT need it:
About $113.1 billion in tax dollars were authorized in 2022 for Ukraine, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Most of it–about $67.1 billion–was defense-related. The other $46 billion included:
<><>$26.9 billion for economic support;
<><>$7.9 billion for international disaster assistance;
<><>$6.6 billion in assistance for refugees;
<><>$1.5 billion for assistance for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia;
<><>plus $3.1 billion for other non-defense spending.
US tax dollars helped Ukraine
<><>pay the salaries of 618,000 educators, 517,000 health workers, and 56,500 first responders
<><>helped sustain critical healthcare services,
<><>helped meet pension responsibilities for 9.8 million people,
<><>assisted 1.3 million internally displaced persons,
<><>provided housing assistance to 4.1 million people,
<><>provided social assistance to 240,000 low-income families
<><>helped subsidize 480,000 persons with disabilities,
<><>bought supplies for farmers,
<><>financed finding markets for small business.
Besides weaponry, Israel also receives economic and humanitarian foreign aid, which supports broad economic development and sociopolitical stability and can include non-military support related to the country’s pressing security needs.
Military aid from US taxpayers has blanketed Israel over the years. They have more than enough resources, now, to nail Hamas and Hezbollah. Wealthy Israel has very low debt, and actually had a budget surplus this year, while the US is $33 trillion in debt, a debt which future generations are saddled with.
You’re on fire this morning 🔥
He used July 4 to call for this. Very odd and I wonder what the founders thought about such entanglements.......... /s
Not content w/ the mega billions already in his pocket, the arms obsessed Zelensky now says
he wants US tax dollars to Ukraine “according to the Israeli model”......here’s what he means:
Read:Congressional Research Service
US Foreign aid to Israel
60 page detailed report
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/RL/RL33222/44
QME has been a conceptual backbone of U.S. military aid to Israel for decades, and it was formally enshrined in U.S. law in 2008 [PDF]. It requires the U.S. government to maintain Israel’s ability “to defeat any credible conventional military threat from any individual state or possible coalition of states or from non-state actors, while sustaining minimal damage and casualties.” QME is based on NATO military planning vis-a-vis a potential conflict with the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries during the Cold War.
Under the 2008 law, the United States must ensure that any weapons it provides to other countries in the Middle East do not compromise Israel’s QME. In several cases, this has required the United States to provide Israel with offsetting weaponry as part of larger regional arms sales. QME has also ensured that Israel is the first in the region to receive access to the most sophisticated U.S. military weapons and platforms, such as the F-35 stealth fighter, of which Israel has fifty.
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This includes the authorization of a Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA) package, which has an estimated value of $1.25 billion, to provide Ukraine additional capabilities to meet its most urgent needs, including: missiles for air defense; munitions for rocket systems and artillery; and anti-tank weapons. <>pIn addition, DoD announced an approximately $1.22 billion Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI) package to provide Ukraine with additional air defense, air-to-ground, Unmanned Aerial Systems, and other capabilities to fight Russian aggression.
This is the Biden Administration’s twenty-third aid package and seventy-third tranche of military equipment to be provided from DoD inventories for Ukraine since August 2021.
Biden Administration Announces Additional Security Assistance for Ukraine Dec. 30, 2024 | Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced additional security assistance support to meet Ukraine’s critical security and defense needs as part of the surge of security assistance the President directed to put Ukraine in the best possible position. This includes the authorization of a Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA) package, which has an estimated value of $1.25 billion, to provide Ukraine additional capabilities to meet its most urgent needs, including: missiles for air defense; munitions for rocket systems and artillery; and anti-tank weapons.
In addition, DoD announced an approximately $1.22 billion Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI) package to provide Ukraine with additional air defense, air-to-ground, Unmanned Aerial Systems, and other capabilities to fight Russian aggression. The capabilities in this announcement include:
• Munitions for National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS); • HAWK air defense munitions; • Stinger missiles; <>p• Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems (c-UAS) munitions; • Ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS); • 155mm and 105mm artillery ammunition;
• Air-to-ground munitions; • High-speed Anti-radiation missiles (HARMs); • Unmanned Aerials Systems (UASd Aerials Systems
They also point out in the comments Ukraine is not an ally of the U.S. official or otherwise!
He’s a U.S. Congressman and should know better
Pure grift it is.
Make Ukraine Great Again
Put Putin and Zel in a room together and fight to the death. No more dead civilians.
@RepDonBacon: “Mr President, your policy towards Russia is not working. While we negotiate, Putin bombs Ukrainian cities. Here is Kyiv today. It is time to change strategy. We and our allies must arm Ukraine to the teeth & we need the toughest sanctions. Putin is mocking you and America.”
This approach essentially means Ukraine is seeking
<><>a combination of arms sales,
<><>security commitments,
<><>and military training from US taxpayers.
Someone tell Don that is a war of attrition, and FJB already cleaned out the shelves and stores
Bacon can go hop in the skillet and STFU
No one here is arguing for American boots on the ground.
The article is titled:
Rep. Don Bacon: Arm Ukraine to the teethWe should arm Ukraine to the teeth!
Regards,
Mr Bacon suffers from Superman Syndrome
We’re the forking USA and no one defeats us!
Arming ukraine to the teeth will not change the grinding war of attrition that now sees thousands of drones over Ukraine in every attack, overwhelming air defense.
Arming ukraine to the teeth has only given the Russians 3 years to develop new weapons and tactics to defeat every western weapon sent to Ukraine
$300 billion US dollars, 3 years…name one Ukrainian strategic success that turned the tide of battle and gave the Russians cause to stop fighting and withdraw. Russian army ground over another hundreds of miles in past 60 days, and carried the war over 3 more oblasts since ukraines failed kursk operation that alone destroyed over 60,000 Ukrainians
Mr Bacon needs to go visit the frontlines and talk to the men there…without AZOV and SBU minders …or maybe visit the villages and talk to survivors who managed to return
Put Putin in a room filled with cyanogen gas. No more dead civilians.
Regards,
“Putin bombs Ukrainian cities”
Typical Ukraine supporters lies.
I don’t like when Mexican migrant protesters wave the Mexican flag. Or when congressmen wave the flag of Ukraine and Israel, and have it in their office.
In the 4th even. So much for independence….
He’s just like the democrats who always want to spend OTHER peoples money.
If he wants to help Ukraine, Don Bacon can go pick up a rifle and fight the Russians on the front line.
This is not the USA’s problem. Let the Eurotrash deal with it. /spit
This is not the Ukrainians fault because the foreign instigators of the war did not want a war that resolved the conflict with Russia, the wanted to create a proxy war with Russia to become a forever war
We are out of the weapons systems Ukraine wants more of and we have no more to give . It will take us years to replace the weapons that Biden squandered for his wag the dog proxy war intended d in part to distract voters from his disastrous policies and to deflect blame to Russia for the problems Biden created. .
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