Scott Ritter on the proposed 40B failure

TheAltWorld ^ | Scott Ritter

[ganeemead]

"...On the surface, this would appear to be simply about weapons. However, buried in this funding is up to a billion dollars earmarked to pay the salaries and pensions of Ukrainian government workers and soldiers. This isn’t a one-time payment – the government of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has indicated that up to $7 billion per month will be needed to keep Ukraine functioning. While most US citizens might not blanch at the thought of their taxpayer dollars being used to underwrite Ukrainian soldiers and civil servants, the reality is that much of this money will be deployed to pay the salaries and pensions of ultra-right Ukrainian politicians and soldiers who espouse neo-Nazi ideology...."

[ganeemead]

IOW the price of cannon fodder has gone up recently...

[Houserino]

The convicted pedophile speaks again.

[Jonty30]

Those globalist soldiers will turn out to be government bureaucrats.

[ganeemead]

I don’t care if the guy was a member of the thugee society or the Green Dragon Tong. St. Paul started off his adult life as a Roman tax collector or some such as well. Ritter is speaking the truth.

[Houserino]

Yeah, and he was VERY popular on DU long ago, even they got rid of him. Amusing that he’s used as a source on here now.

[ganeemead]

Then again, YOU seem to be much more concerned with Ritter having once been cought up in some sort of a political honey-trap than with the prospect of Breadline Joe Biden and other major-league gangsters putting Americans on the hook for $40,000,000,000.00 that we don't have for a Nazi cause.

What is your thinking here, i.e. why would you want to do that??

[Gene Eric]

>> Amusing that he’s used as a source on here now.

There’s gotta be a Biblical passage concerning the inevitable emergence of truth from the dark crevices of existence...

[Houserino]

Political honey-trap. Heard it all now. You can hero-worship this convicted pedo all you want like the left does, but don’t expect anyone to take you or him seriously.

Kinda wondering if you might be him.

[ganeemead]

You didn’t answer the question.

[ganeemead]

Probably more like 60 B as this gentleman notes...

[Widget Jr]

A Internet Rule of Thumb is, if it is on RT.com like this is, it is fully approved Russian propaganda. When getting confirmation bias means Scott Ritter, finding someone better than him might be a good ideal.

[Widget Jr]

ideal = idea.

[ScottinVA]

Amazing that anyone here in FR would value the words of that pedophile Ritter.

[Houserino]

People on either side of the political spectrum will often sell their souls to satan like this if they think it’ll support their political beliefs and win points.

[Prince of Space]

Isn’t hero-worshipping exactly what you Zelenskyy fan boys do here every single day? Or is this you, Vlod? 🤣

[Travis McGee]

[Seems to be a bit of a morale problem among Ukrainian troops that is not being reported in the Western Mockingbird Media. Does not look like the $40 billion is reaching the frontline troops. Video at link. Below is a translation.]

1/7 In Ukrainian: "We, the military personnel of 13th motorized infantry Det, specifically RVP fire-support Co, petitioning the Commander-in-Chief of the AFU. We're the active military personnel of 58th Bde, 13th Bn. Petitioning the C-in-C of the AFU with a request to not use us.

2/7 as meat [fodder] and to withdraw us to a safe zone for resupplying us with materiel, arms, and personnel, because at present we are unable to carry out the missions we are tasked with. Also, in light of recent events, our personnel needs physical and morale-psychological.

3/7 rehabilitation to enable us to be accomplishing our missions 100%. We appeal to you b/c our commanders don't hear us, and ignore all our requests, and task us with further missions that we cannot accomplish. C-in-C, sir, in no way are we refusing to be defending our Fatherland.

4/7 or carrying out our direct obligations as military personnel, as we had pledged on the freedom of ppl of Ukraine and the independence of our State. We're hoping for your help and understanding. [End of prepared speech.] C-in-C, sir: today we were visited by the "management."

5/7 of the 58th Bde, namely Zampolit [Deputy Commander for Ideology] who already wants to be pulling us out 3-4 men at a time and be throwing them in prison as they speak up. Today is May 22nd. We don't want to be used as cannon fodder. We want to defend our State, but we're not

6/7 being enabled to. For, we're sent w/o any training. Among us, as you can see, there are many just-mobilized personnel. Some of them have never handled a firearm, not to mention any training. In this video you can see that these men don't even have any protective gear.

7/7 We're running out of food, drinking water. We're being constantly..." [the end!]

[Travis McGee]

Link to above video.

https://twitter.com/ResMvnita/status/1528564623842189312

[ganeemead]

Thank you very much. I’ll see that this gets into at least some of the proper hands.

[jacknhoo]

Wow, it’s hard to believe the Democrats were once against the so-called neo-Nazis (Nazis), especially Conyers:

Excerpt from the article:

On the surface, this would appear to be simply about weapons. However, buried in this funding is up to a billion dollars earmarked to pay the salaries and pensions of Ukrainian government workers and soldiers. This isn’t a one-time payment – the government of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has indicated that up to $7 billion per month will be needed to keep Ukraine functioning. While most US citizens might not blanch at the thought of their taxpayer dollars being used to underwrite Ukrainian soldiers and civil servants, the reality is that much of this money will be deployed to pay the salaries and pensions of ultra-right Ukrainian politicians and soldiers who espouse neo-Nazi ideology.

US Army soldiers from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th ID in Baghdad, Iraq. © Robert Nickelsberg / Getty Images
Context is everything. In the aftermath of embarrassing photographs showing US soldiers providing hands-on training to members of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, a former independent militia drawn from the ranks of Ukraine’s right-wing supporters of Stepan Bandera, a Ukrainian nationalist who fought alongside Nazi Germany during the Second World War, the US Congress, in June 2015, passed legislation that banned the training of Azov members by the US military, as well as any transfer of US weapons to Azov control.

“I am grateful that the House of Representatives unanimously passed my amendments last night to ensure that our military does not train members of the repulsive neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, along with my measures to keep the dangerous and easily trafficked MANPADs out of these unstable regions,” Representative John Conyers Jr., a Democrat from Michigan, remarked after the legislation was approved.

Within in a year, however, the Pentagon had lobbied the US Congress to remove Conyers’ amendment from the 2016 budget, claiming that the amendment was unnecessary in light of the existing Leahy Law, which prohibited funding to groups that have “committed a gross violation of human rights.” The problem, however, was that the US Congress had never formally designated the Azov Battalion as a group covered by the provisions of the Leahy Law. Accordingly, the US military was once again given the green light to train and equip Ukraine’s neo-Nazi military formations. Congress eventually woke up to the Pentagon’s end-around, and in 2018 reinserted the language of the 2015 Conyers amendment into the defense budget, stipulating that “none of the funds made available by this act may be used to provide arms, training or other assistance to the Azov Battalion.”

The Biden administration, together with the US Congress, seems content to ignore the restrictions imposed in 2018 – none of the current funds being allocated to Ukraine are hampered by any such restrictions. Underwriting the training, equipping, and sustainment of Ukraine’s neo-Nazi element is de rigueur for American politicians, it seems.

[ganeemead]

I say again, there is no definition of patriotism that includes stooging or siding with Nazis against Christians.