National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Tuesday that the US has expressed to Ukraine and European allies that Congress will back the new spending on the war in Ukraine that President Biden has requested despite “dissonant” voices among Republicans.
An ambassador from an unnamed European country confirmed to Axios that his government had received that message from the US in recent days. Sullivan noted in his comments that there are still “strong” voices “in key leadership positions” in the Republican Party in Congress who favor continuing to fund the proxy war against Russia.
A House GOP leadership aide told Axios that the new Ukraine spending would likely pass if brought to a vote, but House Speaker Kevin McCarthy might have difficulty bringing it to a floor for a vote due to growing opposition. “I just don’t see that support in the House [Republican] conference right now … We are well beyond just the Freedom Caucus talking about this,” the aide said.
Last week, Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD), co-chair of the congressional Ukraine Caucus, said he would not support new spending on the war in Ukraine that included anything other than military aid and didn’t establish an inspector general. He also said the counteroffensive “failed” and called for the US to push Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to pursue peace talks. Harris is also a member of the Freedom Caucus but has been a staunch supporter of the war until now.
President Biden requested an additional $24 billion in the new Ukraine package, which would bring total spending on the war to about $137 billion if authorized. Biden’s request came after a CNN poll found 55% of Americans are opposed to Congress authorizing more spending on the conflict.
Biden is a tax and spend president. He thinks the amount he’s spending on the proxy war in Ukraine is not good enough and wants to spend more and more money until we run out and have a bigger debt than Argentina’s.
He also wants us to spend money on aid to Taiwan the same way.
There is no one in government and media with real influence making Biden and his neocon criminal cabal face the real war crimes, the death and destructions they are responsible for.
No one confronts the senile old man and his criminal cabal to face the result of his war in Ukraine. He and his people should have their faces poked in the blood they spilled in Ukraine and keep spilling.
His people, who are without morals and without conscience, will do to the European NATO members what they did to Ukraine and will do to Taiwan if they can get away with it.
You don’t mean poked. Shoved is a better term.
The war pigs are always hungry.
Always …….
War “jackals.” You shouldn’t slander pigs. I like my ham & swiss.
Jackals unlike pigs do not gorge.
Ok, you got me there.
The P.J. O’Roarke book ‘Parliament of Whores’ springs to mind.. Now that wars are started with no approval from anyone, the U.S. Congress is as redundant as the U.N.. How soon until the budget deficit reaches $40 trillion?
I am nearing 80 years. I would guess before my 85th.
When it comes to the American War Machine, the UniParty never disappoints. The war-wh*res in Washington D.C. wasted over $2 trillion dollars on Afghanistan for nothing … well …. the Taliban are much better armed now …. I guess that’s something.
And yet 45% of Americans approve this policy.
The BIDEN/NULAND NEOCON CABAL is kneeling on the throat of the US empire.
The whole country is becoming short of breath.
The US empire is dead….ala 5th century Rome
My contempt for the reek of the sewer in DC continues to grow by the hour.
The Biden administration is completely out of control, bent on revenge toward more and more of the human race who are slowly discovering the nightmarish reality of America’s rules-based empire.
OG: It appears that the conditions are changing quickly. we are at a crux of life or death and shitheads are calling the shots.
George W. Bush was bent on revenge because Saddam wanted to kill his daddy, while Dick Cheney and Rummy looked at the oil, so, shock and awe for Iraq. Both parties are all in on the Ukraine freak show, to “bleed Russia”.
The US State Department says it is opposed to the coup that occurred in Niger, and seeks restoration of the elected President.
However, at least five leaders of the most recent coup in Niger, received U.S. training, according to a U.S. official. They, in turn, appointed five U.S.-trained members of the Nigerien security forces to serve as governors, according to the State Department. (from https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/08/23/the-us-hand-in-africas-coups/)
That makes one wonder if the State Department’s official position with regard to Niger is the State Department’s true position.
The military coup replaced the fascist US friendly government, that is a first, it is usually the other way around.
What a surprise for Nuland, she fell flat on her face when she was refused any meeting with the new
people in charge or the ousted people.
Fell flat on her big fat keister, Lysi 😉
I read the number was 12.
FJB hope he rots in he!! with his corrupt son Beau.
Zelensky is already talking about drafting another 200,000 people for next year’s . I heard that Zelensky has mandated that no males between the ages of 16 and 18 will be allowed to leave Ukraine.
It looks as if Biden’s dream of harming Russia until the last Ukrainian is dead or fled is exceeding his wildest expectations.
Where are the 200 000 men he wants to draft? 16-18 year-olds are children. It is high time Putin takes care of him too.
Assuming it’s true, The order to prevent boys from leaving before they turn 18 implies both that their families are already trying to protect them, and that, as you say, it will be extremely difficult to meet his quota next year and beyond.
“55% of Americans are opposing to Congress authorizing more spending on the conflict” – does it mean 45% are supporting it? If it is true, the situation is hopeless. The oligarchy can rule the country even with 20% support. The good news are that BRICS is getting stronger. So, if not from inside, the power of US oligarchy will be restricted from outside.
I am not sure that BRICS will be powerfull enough inn time to save us and the planet from more US inspired war and destruction.
BRICS is representing the multipolar world order where different civilizations can coexist in peace and harmony. As BRICS is developing stronger and more representative, US empire is getting marginalized from the rest of the human kind.
It can’t happen soon enough.Maybe humanity will survive.
It is a matter of pride. “Gee, we can’t lose another war, can we?” So, to h*ll with our infrastructure repairs, grid upgrade, making shorelines more protected against hurricanes.
More US is investing in Ukrainian war, greater will be the defeat of US and NATO. If US rulers acted less reckless, probably, Saudi Arabia couldn’t join BRICS. Now, as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran and Ethiopia became members of BRICS, practically, all Muslim world and Africa are standing together with Russia and China.
When your destruction is on the table some choices become obvious.
V, ByeDone and Co. should be issuing checks for several thousand dollars apiece to Amerikkkans who are going broke because of inflation.
“Credit card spending is up”, crows the media. Of COURSE it’s f*cking up; people run out of spending money from their SS or meager paychecks and are forced to extend their credit.
Hubs pays all the bills and taxes with his pension and SS, leaving him with little left over. My only income is SS, and it’s up to me to purchase groceries and pay the vet bills as well as my own medical expenses. I spend literally twice as much on food and necessities than I did two years ago, and we ain’t eatin’ filet mignon.
In America we have a representative government. But who does the government represent?