Posted on 03/08/2024 4:25:46 AM PST by RandFan
Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) pressed the House on Thursday to pass a Ukraine aid bill, as he launches a campaign to replace outgoing Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.).
“I think that the challenge, of course, right now, with the situation deteriorating there, is to try and feel a sense of urgency about this,” Thune said in a PBS “NewsHour” interview.
“I’m hoping the House can execute on getting something passed, ideally the Senate bill, but if not something that they could send to the Senate that we could then act on,“ Thune added.
McConnell and Thune have been among the GOP supporters in the Senate of sending additional aid to Ukraine.
Republicans in both chambers have grown divided over the issue, however, particularly as former President Trump has won primaries and become the near-certain GOP nominee for president.
The House has resisted bipartisan calls from the Senate to pass aid for Ukraine. The Senate passed an aid bill last month.
Thune emphasized the need for American aid in Ukraine, as the country struggles to hold back a surging Russian military.
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“Thune on Ukraine: ‘America cannot retreat from the world stage’”
Incredible how TONE DEAF some Republicans are. Ukraine is OVER, the Cookie Monster of Kiev was canned on Tuesday, we’re done, Russia won (like it ever could have been close - even Obama knew we’d lose a DECADE ago, and we were in far better condition to fight then).
Hey Thune, start up a war on some remote Pacific island, where we can still win...for now.
There has always been an isolationist component of the Republican party that is in opposition to any activity beyond the American borders. Being critical of Thune who expresses an American need to act in the World is neo isolationist.
Neo isolationist is now as opposed to the similar thoughts of the Republican isolationists of the 1930’s
Anyone of these people pushing for years on end for anything their constituents have no interest in or are opposed to is not from some idealism you want to make up or put them in
Absolutely correct. Thune and Cornyn would be terrible Senate minority leaders. They are establishment, lobbyist-owned insiders who will do nothing to change the direction of the government.
Anybody in an elected position at Foggy Bottom who supports foreign aid translates to they are siphoning some of that foreign aid cashola into their shell companies through kickbacks from the recipients of that said foreign aid.
“...to lose 30,000-60,000 men and a few trillion dollars to fight Russia...”
It’s more than just manpower losses. Russia controls a little over 10% of our natural gas usage. You can be assured if we put boots on the gound that will stop and Russia will raise the price in EU to cover the financial loss. Meantime, the primary use for natural gas in the US is to generate electrical power. Natural gas is the source of more than 25% of the nation’s electricity. With the Biden administration’s kulling of our own natural gas producers we will be in a considerable brownout nation wide shortly that will take years to catch up on if we can.
Add in the loss on transportation and manufacturing, and we come to a standstill. We need to back out while we can. And again, write it off as we will never get the money back we put into it. And besides saving money it might save a whole lot of lives from both here and in the Ukraine population.
The north during our civil war found out about fighting on their own turf when the south went clear into Pennsyvania. The bluecoats never planned on that either. Different weapons, same result.
wy69
Any American that cares more about Ukraine or Israel is a traitorous scumbag.
The point of no return domestically is near or passed already.
Not our monkeys, not our circus.
Figuring out priorities with very constrained resources and and exploding national debt is not isolationism. We need to set priorities and I am sorry that a lot of us think that your dysfunctional money laundering scam isn't on that list of global priorities.
That’s “Post of the Day” material right there.
Making a deal is not retreating
Afghanistan withdrawal was retreating
“Being critical of Thune who expresses an American need to act in the World is neo isolationist.”
Ukraine is none of our business. It’s a 400 year old border squabble between two hyper corrupt oligarchies. There are no good guys on either side. The idea that we need to sink billions of borrowed dollars into that quagmire is madness.
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Failureship is not Leadership. This “experiment” failed from the outset, Boris Johnson saw to that, Zielinski was onboard hook, line, and sinker.
“Jaw-Jaw is better than War-War” Harold Macmillan.
Too bad that consideration didn’t enter the room during the initial ramp up.
"He had to make a decision," she (KJP) told reporters, saying The US had poured "billions of dollars into a war with no end in sight" and that "he wanted to stop that, he wanted to end that."
IMHO, the same could be said about Ukraine.
Just attach legislation conscripting the Blood Relatives of EVERY Federal Employee between the age of 17-35 into the Armed forces, Give them 2 weeks training and send them straight to the Front Lines in Ukraine and this war will end immediately.
Thune on Ukraine: ‘America cannot retreat from the world stage’
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This is code for “More Imperialism”.
Hey Thune, the situation here in the USA is deteriorating rapidly as well. Now do something about it.
We can, and should, retreat when we are in the wrong fight against a nation that we have needlessly made into our enemy — and are befriending nations that are our actual enemies.
Exactly
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