Posted on 05/08/2024 9:23:11 AM PDT by delta7
The ink was barely dry on President Biden’s signature transferring another $61 billion to the black hole called Ukraine, when the mainstream media broke the news that this was not the parting shot in a failed US policy. The elites have no intention of shutting down this gravy train, which transports wealth from the middle and working class to the wealthy and connected class.
Reuters wrote right after the aid bill was passed that, “Ukraine’s $61 billion lifeline is not enough.” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell went on the Sunday shows after the bill was passed to say that $61 billion is “not a whole lot of money for us…” Well, that’s easy for him to say – after all it’s always easier to spend someone else’s money!
Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, was far from grateful for the $170 billion we have shipped thus far to his country. In an interview with Foreign Policy magazine as the aid package was passed, Kuleba had the nerve to criticize the US for not producing weapons fast enough. “If you cannot produce enough interceptors to help Ukraine win the war against the country that wants to destroy the world order, then how are you going to win in the war against perhaps an enemy who is stronger than Russia?” How’s that for a “thank you”?
It may be understandable why the Ukrainians are frustrated. Most of this money is not going to help them fight Russia. US military aid to Ukraine has left our own stockpiles of weapons depleted, so the money is going to create new production lines to replace weapons already sent to Ukraine. It’s all about the US weapons industry. President Biden admitted as much when he said, “we are helping Ukraine while at the same time investing in our own industrial base.”
This is why Washington Is desperate to make sure that if Donald Trump returns to the White House, the “Ukraine” gravy train cannot be shut down by his – or future – administrations. Last week news broke that the Ukrainian government was in negotiations with the Biden Administration to sign a ten-year security agreement that would lock in US funding for Ukraine for the next two and a half US Administrations. That would unconstitutionally tie future presidents’ hands when it comes to foreign policy and would leave Americans on the hook for untold billions more dollars taken from them and sent to the weapons industry and to a corrupt foreign government.
The US weapons industry and its cheerleaders in Washington DC are determined to keep Ukraine money flowing…until they can figure out a way to gin up a war with China after losing the current war with Russia. That, of course, depends on whether there is anything left of us when the smoke clears.
When President Biden signed the $95 billion bill to keep wars going in Ukraine and Gaza and to provoke a future war with China, he called it “a good day for world peace.” Yes, and “War is peace.” Debt is good. Freedom is slavery. We are living in a post-truth society where billions spent on pointless wars are “not a whole lot of money.” But the piper will be paid and the debt will be cleared.
Go Brics!
Seems to me it’s a failed Russian policy.
As for the people that seem to look towards the defeat of Ukraine with glee, I think you are despicable. True moral midgets.
It’s a Slavic thing apparently. Read an article yesterday that one of Putin’s inner circle has skimmed BILLIONS from their defense budget.
Still, anyone voting for one single US dollar to be just given away to ANY foreign Nation... free, gratis, in exchange for nothing... Should be executed for treason.
Now... allowing our private companies to SELL things to Ukraine... Sure. Have Zelenskyy break out his American Express card and we can have DHL start delivering stuff next week.
And when the next Continuing Resolution comes to the table (and there will be one, because there is no such thing as a “budget” anymore) there will be another $100 billion taxpayer dollars shoved into that bottomless, corrupt sh**-hole.
And then another Continuing Resolution and another $100 billion taxpayer dollars.
I wouldn’t go so far as to wish our own demise or greater troubles on the horizon.
I agree that we set huge wheels in motion which will cause us grief for years to come.
Russia isn’t some punk we can push around like we do with others using our military might, political influence, and economic weight. They can push back, and are.
But you shouldn’t be happy about this!
This is a horrible and unnecessary mess. Yes (((we))) the Biden administration caused this. But celebrating things which hurt us isn’t how we should look at it either.
I used to think Ron Paul was a great American. Then my eyes were opened, and I now know that he has never been anything more than an ignorant nihilist.
As long as Blackrock gets all the dead Ukrainian land (Russia doesn’t take),, everything is good for congress
He’s been right about damn near everything
But almost none of the money allocated goes to Ukraine. It goes to US based manufacturers of military equipment to buy new equipment that replaces the obsolete equipment and expired munitions being sent to Ukraine.
When an article starts out with a false premise there isn't much point in reading much more of it.
But thanks for sharing today's Russian propaganda talking point.
What about that burning Russian oil storage depot set on fire by one of those obsolete ATACMS missiles?
“The Great Ukraine Robbery”
lol.
Russia is busy killing off its men in Ukraine. Why is that?
This very thing could be said of the "Elite" Class in the USA during the 1850s and 1860s.
They had a system for moving money from the slave plantations into their own pockets.
What sent them to war was the cut off of that money, not any concern for the slaves.
We are still dealing with the corrupt Northeastern portion of the country using the Federal government to line their own pockets. It is the greatest threat we currently face, and it is exactly why they control the media.
You'll figure it out eventually, if you live as long as I have.
btt
In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled The Great Ukraine Robbery is Not Over Yet, freeandfreezing wrote: " transferring another $61 billion to the black hole called Ukraine" But almost none of the money allocated goes to Ukraine. It goes to US based manufacturers of military equipment to buy new equipment that replaces the obsolete equipment and expired munitions being sent to Ukraine.
When an article starts out with a false premise there isn't much point in reading much more of it.
But thanks for sharing today's Russian propaganda talking point.
What about that burning Russian oil storage depot set on fire by one of those obsolete ATACMS missiles?
In case you didn't read it, the article goes on to say the Ukraine is frustrated because most of the $61 Billion is not going to help them, but is paying off defense contractors.
Americans know we've already given the Ukraine far too much money while ignoring our own needs- opinions against giving them money don't have to be 'Russian Propaganda'. There are claims that the payoff to some defense contractors is for equipment already shipped to the Ukraine WITHOUT CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL. There's a lot to dislike about all of our interactions with Ukraine - not just the money laundering, extortion, blackmail, and Biden crime family activities there.
What about that Russian oil depot set on fire? It's a distraction from the sweep Russia is performing, taking over one city after another. QUICK! BOMB AN OIL DEPOT SO NOBODY NOTICES UKRAINIAN MILITARY IS COLLAPSING!
“”””But almost none of the money allocated goes to Ukraine. It goes to US based manufacturers of military equipment to buy new equipment that replaces the obsolete equipment and expired munitions being sent to Ukraine.””””
American needs right there, we can’t protect ourselves against Red China and Russia without the means to fight, and as countless posts made here over the last 27 months have said, our weapons and ammo production had stagnated and been reduced so much that we were not prepared to face them.
You did your best thinking when your eyes were closed.
That won’t change anything, I’ve been around a long time and every day I see more of what he said would happen has happened.
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