President signed the $40 Billion Ukraine Aid Bill Saturday morning. He signed the measure under unusual circumstances. Because he’s in the middle of a trip to Asia, a U.S. official brought a copy of the bill on a commercial flight to Seoul for the president to sign, according to a White House official.
On Thursday, the Senate passed the package for Ukraine, the majority of which will go towards military assistance. The legislation now moves to the desk of President Biden, who is expected to quickly sign it into law.
The massive package passed in a vote of 86-11, with only Republicans voting against the bill. The aid was delayed in the Senate last week after Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) blocked a vote. Paul wanted to change the text of the bill to include a new inspector general for oversight of the aid, but the legislation wasn’t altered.
Paul voted against the bill on Thursday, along with Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), John Boozman (R-AR), Mike Braun (R-IN), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Josh Hawley (R-MO), Mike Lee (R-UT), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Roger Marshall (R-KS), and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL).
The aid package passed through the House on May 10 in a vote of 368-57, again with only Republicans voting nay as Democrats are in lockstep in their support of the Biden administration’s policy of flooding Ukraine with weapons, which risks provoking Moscow.
The $40 billion will bring total US aid for Ukraine to a whopping $54 billion for 2022 alone. For perspective, Russia’s entire military budget for 2021 was estimated to be about $65.9 billion.
I’m impressed with some of these folks!
They will be back for more & opposition will build.
Senate Passes $40 Billion Ukraine Aid Bill bring total US aid for Ukraine to a whopping $54 billion for 2022 alone.
So if you are wondering why there is hyperinflation look no farther then dementia Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
Why is the Biden Crime Family so desperately trying
to hide there operations in Ukraine? They are spending more money than
the defense budget of most countries to keep Ukraine sealed from prying
eyes.
The comedians move on.
The Ukrainians did well to begin with but outside the cities there is only so much you can do with green soldiers, MAW, and stingers after your stadoff is blown away. It is wonderful to have some new heavy weapons but someone has to man them.
My guess is Biden does not want to talk about with his current ratings. The Ukrainians will most likely have to give up ground and live to fight another day.
40000000000 is a MIC subsidy pay off to big doners and will have little impact over the next three months.
Then again Biden might do another unthinkable move that will damage EU even more.
Most of that money will be siphoned up by corrupt Ukrainian officials and kicked back to the US as bank deposits and political donations.
There’s no telling who they’ll sell extra weapons to, but DAESH vets from Syria are also fighting for Kiev.
Actually, all of the “military” money will be spent with US “defense” contractors. The baksheesh end will run through those contractors as well, nicely laundered — US campaign donations through separate PACs or by executives, lucrative revolving door employment for cooperative US and Ukrainian politicians, etc.
And 10% for the big guy.
I keep telling cheer leaders of this bill to be sure and send suitcases so the Ukes can pack up their share..
They will do very well for themselves. Half the bill, US$ 20 billion, is for DoD contract slush.
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/05/18/holy-cash-cow-heres-a-breakdown-of-the-40-billion-aid-package-for-ukraine/
The Western aid game is always played to benefit the doner, though.
https://www.globalissues.org/news/2011/09/06/11078
However, its a safe bet connected Ukrainians will find roles in many contracts, if not always directly then through subcontracting.
Money and weapons solve everything for the USA. No matter that the “democratic, free” hugely indebted nation has a president with a wonderful team of scene-setters whose words are accepted without question by all the Western politicians and media. All dissident TV stations in Ukraine have been shut down, all political parties not supporting King Volodomyr are banished, all languages but Ukrainian are denied use despite large numbers of Russian speakers in many parts of the country. Every Western media report is “according to Ukrainian sources” and never investigated. There is obviously a deep and dangerous set of reasons for the US obsession with a nation already known for its corruption and neoNazi influence since at least the US interference in 2014 and right next to Russia. How much is it trying to hide? Why is the EU so complicit?
Does that whopping $54 Billion come with fries?… I think the ‘whopping’ made me think of burgers and fries….
Any chuckles? Just a couple? Maybe one?….
This is a tough crowd………………………………………………………………………………….
Can milkshakes take the place of baby formula?
‘Course, those will be running out or inflated beyond reach soon.
Okay you got it Donna! 😄
We need to talk about two stories:”Biden Reverses Course on Shipping
Long-Range Rockets to Ukraine” & “US Embassy in Kyiv Reopens After Nearly Three Months of War”. Although they lay doubt the longer range missile systems will be authorized is completely true; it still suggests two things 1) Diplomats feel safe in Kiev & want to poke-their-noses and be direct in the Ukraine government, does it not also suggest they believe Russia is not going to total war & some division of Ukraine will be inevitable outcome?
Yes, and this is what puzzles Scott Ritter. Putin, for admirable reasons, is fighting with one hand behind his back, apparently still insistent on the soft approach, overruling Shoigu and the generals, leaving room for Washington escalate.
I gotta think about that. Wonder if Putin ever heard of the Tar Baby? Maybe he is applying that tactic?
For sure Washington is.
Well, only the top brass really know what’s going on. They are hitting the Ukranians with everything in Donbas: https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/05/ukraine-sitrep-russians-break-through-us-bolsterism.html#more
Thanks, a very different overall assessment
Total waste of US taxpayer’s money…!
There was an interesting video posted of a Russian drone destroying 4 of the new 777 Howitzers sent over to Ukraine yesterday. The drone evidently laser designated the artillery and Russian guns destroyed the entire unit.
Those 777’s make juicy targets.
These weapons cannot be flown directly into Ukraine or the Russians will destroy the aircraft transporting them. So they will have to be shipped to, say, Poland. There they will be stolen either by terrorists who have infiltrated into Europe with the refugees or arms dealers out to make a buck in a Europe plunging into poverty. Members of the government of whatever country it is will certainly join in the fun. That is what people do in a world falling into chaos. The corruption will be staggering and the result will be well armed terrorist organizations and criminals throughout Europe. Brilliant plan
What will 15 artillery units change in this war, Russia started with 20,000 units.
This godforsaken place is going down the sh*thole and ByeDone manages to gift a neonazi backwater with billions.
In the meantime, babies are starving from lack of formula here. How the f*ck does that even happen?!
And the stock market went Chernobyl again. Say bye-bye to any assets you thought you had.
Been to the grocery store lately, or the gas station? Word is that gas could reach $8 a gallon by the end of summer.
Oh, but weapons for the Penis Piano Player! THAT we can afford!
Mariupol has been liberated from the NATO Nazi’s. The Azov leader had to be escorted in an armoured vehicle to protect him from the locals who wanted to kill him.
Yep bringing democracy to Ukraine. Joe Biden et al must be arrested for their many many crimes against humanity. The United States of America must be Balkanised, disarmed and denazified.
America and the Western Powers are a complete and utter disgrace.
May be a tad OT but just 29% of people surveyed trust media: question is under what rock do the 29% live, must be cnn, wapo, nyt believers: Us media ranks last, cia controlled:
https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2021/us-ranks-last-among-46-countries-in-trust-in-media-reuters-institute-report-finds/
I bet the cash portion of this $40 billion aid which is about $6 billion does NOT even reach Ukrainian soil and ends up in offshore accounts of their Neo-Nazis elites…!
40 Billion expected to be recovered from Russia. Drug addict porn comedian Zelinsky has already made the idea public. And 40 will be only part of the expected loot.Salivating.
The whole V.Z. is a drug addict started in Russia propaganda with altered videos. Is this what you watch?
The idea could have never been the drug addict’s.His brain is frozen. some one else put it out through him. Any way that is the Zionist game plan. I believe so.
Of course they do. And if you try to point out to them concrete evidence of photo and video manipulation, they stick their fingers in their ears and tell you “YOU ONLY BELIEVE WESTERN PROPAGANDA!” while they readily consume Russian state media.
V.Z. wins Times’s Person of the Year while Putin wins the HITLER person of the year award.
https://time.com/6177642/2022-time100-reader-poll-winner-volodymyr-zelensky/