Posted on 12/09/2023 4:38:01 PM PST by Mariner
WASHINGTON (AP) — A deal to provide further U.S. assistance to Ukraine by year-end appears to be increasingly out of reach for President Joe Biden. The impasse is deepening in Congress despite dire warnings from the White House about the consequences of inaction as Republicans insist on pairing the aid with changes to America's immigration and border policies.
After the Democratic president said this past week he was willing to “make significant compromises on the border,” Republicans quickly revived demands that they had earlier set aside, hardening their positions and attempting to shift the negotiations to the right, according to a person familiar with the talks who was not authorized to publicly discuss them and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The latest proposal, from the lead GOP negotiator, Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., came during a meeting with a core group of senators before they left Washington on Thursday afternoon. It could force the White House to consider ideas that many Democrats will seriously oppose, throwing new obstacles in the difficult negotiations.
Biden is facing the prospect of a cornerstone of his foreign policy — repelling Russian President Vladimir Putin from overtaking Ukraine — crumbling as U.S. support for funding the war wanes, especially among Republicans. The White House says a failure to approve more aid by year's end could have catastrophic consequences for Ukraine and its ability to fight.
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How about we send them some of our national debt? Equal to Ukraine aid and the money being spent on putting illegals up in nice hotels, flying and busing them all over the country.
If we give them money, we need to make sure they are using it for defense. They are corrupt.
Almost two years overdue.
Why did TBTB care more about Ukraine’s borders than our own?
[Biden got blamed for the disaster in Afghanistan. The GOP will bet blamed for allowing Russia to take over Ukraine. With that, the democrats will be pointing out all through the 2024 election cycle that, it’s the republicans who are to blame for Ukraine becoming part of Russia again.
IOW, republicans will have a very poor election cycle.
Right or wrong, republicans can’t win with Ukraine being abandoned.]
The GOP will bet blamed for allowing Russia to take over Ukraine.
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While I could certainly be wrong about this, I don’t see Russia “taking over Ukraine”. The Russians will be fortunate to hold onto what they have.
Americans need to be reminded every day Ukraine was Biden’s mess.
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“New US aid for Ukraine by year-end seems increasingly of out reach as GOP ties it to border security”
I’ve been around long enough to know that THE PURPOSE of these articles is to make the Conservatives think they’ve won...so that they won’t oppose the upcoming deal (as in caving).
“Biden got blamed for the disaster in Afghanistan.
The GOP will bet blamed for allowing Russia to take over Ukraine”
We have a very short attention span. Biden’s screw up in leaving Afghanistan was forgotten a long time ago, Ukraine is Biden’s war. We never had a vital national security interest there and Biden poking the Russian bear about moving next door to it by entertaining Zelensky’s desire to join NATO pushed Russia over the line. That war will be forgotten too within months of negotiating a loss of Eastern Ukraine to Russia.
talking about
From your lips to Santa’s ears have Greta Thunberg deliver a bucket of coal to Zelensky.
Kiev, Kiev, Kiev!
The cave is coming but I don’t care at this point I will not vote for any Republican who wants anything sent to Ukraine.
I keep getting pitches for David McCormick and he better say NO to Ukraine money for starters if he wants my vote for US Senate here in Pennsylvania.
Americans care most about what is Happening HERE.
There should be money for Border Security
WITHOUT strings attached
Like American taxpayers’ money
to protect American taxpayers
anyone who doesn’t blindly absorb Western propaganda knew that Putin was winning a long time ago.
15 years
Yeah.
A losers argument.
Forgotten is the Democrat-RINO corruption involving family and friends of Pelosi, Kerry and Romney, in addition to the Bidens. The cash cow, as it comes to an end, might well end with some Z-loyalists turning over documentation of the Americans deep into the grift.
And, Ukraine wouldn't have lost ANY territory if we had allowed the Minsk Accords to be implemented. Or if Biden had promised not to expand NATO into Ukraine when the Russians sought to negotiate in December, 2021. And, Ukraine would have lost far less territory of we and Boris Johnson hadn't killed peace deal in March of last year.
This proxy war we wanted, lost and Ukrainians are the ones suffering from it. Claiming anything else is a lie.
I’ll tell you what has lost. Free Republic has lost. Debate about foreign policy is one thing. A site overrun by blatant anti American pro Russian propagsndists is another.
If this is the best conservatism can offer, it’s over.
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