House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Tuesday spoke at the first Parliamentary Summit of the International Crimea Platform in Croatia, a forum that was set up to discuss expelling Russia from the Crimean peninsula, which Russia has controlled since 2014.
In her speech, Pelosi said the US will support Ukraine until a Ukrainian “victory is won.” For Ukraine, victory means expelling Russia from Crimea, a scenario that Russia could consider an existential threat, giving it the pretext to use nuclear weapons under Moscow’s military doctrine.
Emine Dzheppar, Ukraine’s first deputy minister of foreign affairs, said that Pelosi’s participation in the summit means that the US supports Ukraine’s goal of driving Russia out of Crimea.
“Her participation is a direct confirmation that the issue of de-occupation of Crimea is high on the agenda in Washington,” Dzheppar said. “With such support, the return of Crimea is closer than ever.”
Russia took Crimea in 2014 after the US-backed ousting of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. Residents of Crimea voted overwhelmingly to join the Russian Federation, and while the US and its allies dispute the results of the referendum, plenty of polls conducted since 2014 show Crimeans are happy with the change.
In her speech, Pelosi also boasted that Congress has authorized over $67 billion in Ukraine aid and said more is coming. “And more will be on the way when we pass our omnibus funding bill this fall,” she said.
NBC News reported last week that Republicans and Democrats in Congress are considering passing a new massive aid package for Ukraine that would likely be attached to an omnibus spending bill. The Ukraine aid is expected to be worth roughly $50 billion, which would bring total US spending on the war to over $115 billion.
Doesn’t matter what the Crimeans want. What’s important is to keep power and $$ flowing to the right people in the US, 5000 miles away.
I’m afraid, this will end when at least one city is completely nuked worthless.
In the US, unfortunately though.
More likely in Ukraine…. where a large number of soldiers are gathered.
“a forum that was set up to discuss expelling Russia from the Crimean peninsula, which Russia has controlled since 2014.” Not to mention all the extra territory and population which Pelosi has not noticed now belong to the Russian Federation. How many wars do you need to lose before you try fixing your own country, Nancy?
She’s working hard on Taiwan and against the working class in the US.
Doing the things needed to FIX this country are nowhere near as profitable then arms sales and waging wars in third nations.Medicare for all.Free education,Public transit,affordable housing.UBI,political reform,term limits,free abortions,repaired roads and bridges.Massive shift away from fossil fuels.clean water,the list is endless.None of these measures are going to happen under Capitalism.
As Eisenhower said long ago,every dollar spent on the Military is a dollar stolen from the citizens of the US.But the MIC grew and grew. The weapons got better or worse depending on whose ass got fed.And here we are with the world tottering on the edge of destruction.If things do not change drastically very soon we are all ging to be dead even the rich MFs running this country and the planet
Nancy is a bit of a twit…
I would have used a variation, but okay. lol
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/ukraine/the-dark-side-of-ukraine/
The Dark Side of Ukraine. Martin Armstrong.
I hope you have time to read this piece, Nancy. It’s not slathered with ice cream-like commentary, but you may prefer a drink after its completion.
So, does anyone question who ordered the “progressives” to cower? Can we ask Mother Nature to do us a solid?
Is Nancy ignorant? Or is this just politics. The people of Crimea want nothing to do with Ukraine. They would take up arms if Ukraine invaded, even if they had not sought annexation by Russia.
Nancy, like her pal in the white house, is aging and showing her age by reverting to cold war rhetoric. We are being led – not governed – by a gerontocracy – via concepts resuscitated from the good old days of the cold war.
She’s worse than that, old bear. She makes herself sick rich with insider trading which she cynically called the “free market”. Her PAC and others actually paid for the primary campaigns of the most far right fringe candidates on the GOP side. (the same side they squawk about threatening ‘democracy’). I’m not religious, but I’ll toss out evil as a descriptor or maybe sociopath is better.
Let’s just call her a dumb old lady.
Nah, that lets her off with ignorant innocence. She knows what she is doing.
You are being too kind. 🙂
“Her PAC and others actually paid for the primary campaigns of the most far right fringe candidates on the GOP side.”
This happened in the state I live in. The republican they ended up ousting had actually voted to impeach Trump and was one who was willing to work with the other side of the aisle on issues. But he’s gone.
Pied Piper/correction.
I call this the Democratic Nazi Victory Fund.
Yes, they think that they have a better chance of winning compared to more radical far right candidates. That just goes to show that they have nothing to offer but votes by extortion and comparison. Except that Clinton and the DNC played the peied piper game with Trump…and HE WON. Sometimes I think it’s like ping pong for the plutocrats, they make each side toss the ball over and the other takes over.
She’s worse than that, old bear. She makes herself sick rich with insider trading which she cynically called the “free market”. Her PAC and others actually paid for the primary campaigns of the most far right fringe candidates on the GOP side. (the same side they squawk about threatening ‘democracy’). I’m not religious, but I’ll toss out evil as a descriptor or maybe sociopath is better.
She’s worse than that, old bear. She makes herself sick rich with insider trading which she cynically called the “free market”. Her PAC and others actually paid for the primary campaigns of the most far right fringe candidates on the GOP side. (the same side they squawk about threatening ‘democracy’). I’m not religious, but I’ll toss out evil as a descriptor or maybe sociopath is better.
Nicely stated…
of course the popular there is mostly Russian — the Soviet Union deported a huge number of Crimean Tatars and then resettled the area with Russians. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/10/ukraine-rising-tensions-put-crimean-tatar-muslims-at-risk-again
Nancy Pelosi needs to go.
Delusional.
The Squad could take down her majority in a minute if they wanted to. They don’t want to. They aren’t worth a bucket of warm sh*t.
$67 Billion Bucks??! Crikey!
Can you imagine what WE could do with $67 Billion dollars?……. for that kind of dough, we should be able to buy the country…
Or we could double our intelligence community. Not saying that because I want it to happen, but only to point out that our current budget for spooks is already ridiculously high.