Posted on 10/21/2022 2:46:37 PM PDT by Kazan
As Congress approaches a lame-duck session, the legislative body is pursuing a roughly $50 billion Ukraine aid package, according to an NBC News report.
An NBC News report noted that lawmakers are considering a $50 billion aid package as House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy has said that House Republicans are not going to “write a blank check” to Ukraine.
Congress has so far appropriated $65 billion in military and economic aid to Ukraine since the conflict between Russia and the embattled nation began. Congress as recently as September allocated $12 billion in aid to Ukraine in a stop-gap spending bill to continue funding the government through December.
One Republican senator said that proposal would ensure that “[Ukraine] can get through the year.”
he senator added, “It’ll make the $12 billion look like pocket change.”
NBC News noted that the new spending figure would most likely become part of an omnibus spending bill, according to congressional aides and a source close to the Ukraine government.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said in a statement on Tuesday that aid to Ukraine must be expedited and that a potential Senate Republican majority must offer greater assistance:
For our part, the United States Congress has funded and approved ongoing aid on an overwhelming bipartisan basis. It is not enough for the Biden Administration to slowly, eventually get around to providing it. It must be expedited.
A Republican majority in the Senate will focus its oversight on ensuring timely delivery of needed weapons and greater allied assistance to Ukraine, rebuilding and modernizing our military capabilities, standing up to terrorist states like Iran, and shoring up our defenses in Asia to deter Chinese aggression.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
This is the UE’s war against Russia.
Let the EU pay for it.
ouch-——I’m feeling that pain in my wallet again. Getting worse.
Disgusting people consumed with lining their pockets.
RINOs are no different than Leftist progressive DEMs.
Uniparty for the win.
Long for the day that tarring and feathering become en vogue again.....
Well from what I see as MIC expenditures all Mitch is sending them is a bunch of Covid shots... Maybe that is what they mean when they mention “arms”.
Gee….it’s almost as if the USA has annexed the Ukraine..
They’re getting more of our tax dollars than any one state inn the union…(maybe not quite, but you get my point..)
Politico.com
By KENNETH P. VOGEL and DAVID STERN
01/11/2017
<>Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump backfire; foreign aid billions threatened
<>Kiev scrambles to make amends with president-elect Trump after working to boost Clinton.
<>President Petro Poroshenko’s administration, and the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, insists that Ukraine stayed neutral in the presidential race.
Donald Trump wasn’t the only presidential candidate whose campaign was boosted by officials of a former Soviet bloc country.
A Politico investigation found
<><>Ukrainian govt officials helped Hillary and trashed Trump, questioning his fitness for office.
<><>They disseminated documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption
<><>They suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election.
<><>They helped Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers.
A Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee met with top officials in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington in an effort to expose ties between Trump, top campaign aide Paul Manafort and Russia, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation.
The Ukrainian efforts had an impact in the race, helping to force Manafort’s resignation and advancing the narrative that Trump’s campaign was deeply connected to Ukraine’s foe to the east, Russia. But they were far less concerted or centrally directed than Russia’s alleged hacking and dissemination of Democratic emails.
Russia’s effort was personally directed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, involved the country’s military and foreign intelligence services, according to U.S. intelligence officials. They reportedly briefed Trump last week on the possibility that Russian operatives might have compromising information on the president-elect. And at a Senate hearing last week on the hacking, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said “I don’t think we’ve ever encountered a more aggressive or direct campaign to interfere in our election process than we’ve seen in this case.”
There’s little evidence of such a top-down effort by Ukraine. Longtime observers suggest that the rampant corruption, factionalism and economic struggles plaguing the country — not to mention its ongoing strife with Russia — would render it unable to pull off an ambitious covert interference campaign in another country’s election.
And President Petro Poroshenko’s administration, along with the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, insists that Ukraine stayed neutral in the race.Ukraine Worked With Democrats Against Trump in 2016 to Stop Putin. The Bet Backfired Badly.
Real Clear Investigations ^
Posted on 3/10/2022, 8:11:28 AM by FarCenter
Six years ago, before Russia’s full-scale invasion of their country, the Ukrainians bet that a Hillary Clinton presidency would offer better protection from Russian President Vladimir Putin, even though he had invaded Crimea during the Obama-Biden administration, whose Russian policies Clinton vowed to continue.
Working with both the Obama administration and the Clinton campaign, Ukrainian government officials intervened in the 2016 race to help Clinton and hurt Trump in a sweeping and systematic foreign influence operation that’s been largely ignored by the press. The improper, if not illegal, operation was run chiefly out of the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, where officials worked hand-in-glove with a Ukrainian-American activist and Clinton campaign operative to attack the Trump campaign. The Obama White House was also deeply involved in an effort to groom their own favored leader in Ukraine and then work with his government to dig up dirt on – and even investigate — their political rival.
Ukrainian and Democratic operatives also huddled with American journalists to spread damaging information on Trump and his advisers – including allegations of illicit Russian-tied payments that, though later proved false, forced the resignation of his campaign manager Paul Manafort. The embassy actually weighed a plan to get Congress to investigate Manafort and Trump and stage hearings in the run-up to the election.
As it worked behind the scenes to undermine Trump, Ukraine also tried to kneecap him publicly. Ukraine’s ambassador took the extraordinary step of attacking Trump in an Op-Ed article published in The Hill, an influential U.S. Capitol newspaper, while other top Ukrainian officials slammed the GOP candidate on social media.
Ya gotta send plenty of cash so they can kick some of it back to ya. . . .
“Gee….it’s almost as if the USA has annexed the Ukraine..”
Bingo... Now you see how it works. Iran, Central America, somolia, Etc.
The Russians are preparing to slice off Ukraine from the EU physically.
It’s an armistice now or a bigger Russian Federation later.
Mitch McConnell needs to be on the first thing making smoke out of the closest airport, be gone, and never heard from again.
Only morons support wars when there is zero national interest.
We are truly a stupid nation
And the greedy. Milk that cow again. Might go dry soon.
You as opposed to “liberal world order” slicing it off and absorbing it so our political elite and oligarchs can continue to make money there?
How much was the border wall gonna cost when the country was asking for it?
GIBS-ME-DAT new $50 billion!! Quick… before a more rational Congress takes over.
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