Posted on 11/09/2023 10:54:46 AM PST by RandFan
GOP Sens. Marco Rubio and Rand Paul on Wednesday during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on emergency funding for Ukraine pushed back on the Biden administration's request for more aid for Kyiv.
"You can have all of this goodwill, and try to fix the world's problems, but you are ignoring the rot and ruin you are creating in your own country," Kentucky's Paul told the State Department's James O'Brien. "What is being done at the State Department to search for an offramp?"
O'Brien, the assistant secretary of the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, responded: "If we don't stand with Ukraine now, we will be spending much more on defense in the future. Much of the supplemental goes to reinvest in the United States, so, far from rot and ruin. We are shoring up the foundations in our energy sector."
The aid package, Paul countered, is a gift for the defense industry.
"So, your argument is that war and funding war around the world is good for our armaments industry," Paul said. "Really, it is a justification of war. To me, that is sort of reprehensible."
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neoCONs don’t care about no stinking morals!
Keep that war money flowing to the MIC!!!! Fund this war until the last ukrainian dies fighting it!!!
neoCONs dont’ need no stinking peace talks!
Zelenskyy is gone. His act is over. He’ll be living in Italy by Hanukkah. Happy Holidays!
"Sens. Rubio, Paul Push Back on Ukraine Funding"
If Sens. Rubio, Paul were reading FR, then they would be able to argue that Justice Joseph Story had clarified that peacetime foreign aid is unconstitutional.
“If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
I thought that negotiations for peace in Ukraine were underway!
No more dumping of US taxpayer money on the Ukraine war!
Pray for Peace!!
Time for Ukraine’s Nazis to get rid of Zelensky anyhow.
” He’ll be living in Italy by Hanukkah. “
I thought he bought a mansion in Miami.
After they already sent $100 BILLION, weapons and oil for nothing, now they decide to push back. No, far too late for that barn door.
Good for them. Time to put a stop to this.
He has at last four or five choices. One is in Crimea. LOL
Gospodi pomiljoy!
(Lord have mercy!)
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