Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is expected to visit Washington next week as Congress debates the $24 billion in additional spending on the proxy war in Ukraine that the White House has requested.
The visit hasn’t been officially announced but has been reported by several media outlets, including The Associated Press. Zelensky will stop in the American capital as part of his trip to the US during the UN General Assembly.
Sources told AP that Zelensky will meet President Biden at the White House next Thursday and will also visit Capitol Hill. When he last made the trip in December 2022, Zelensky thanked Congress for all the support but said it wasn’t “enough.”
Zelensky’s next visit comes as support for the proxy war in Ukraine falters among Republican voters. According to a recent poll from CNN, 55% of Americans oppose Congress authorizing more spending on the conflict, including 71% of Republicans who were asked.
The majority of Republicans in Congress still favor fueling the war, but there is a loud minority in the House, mainly members of the Freedom Caucus, that could make getting the funds authorized a headache for the White House.
The White House has asked for the $24 billion in Ukraine spending as part of a $40 billion bill that includes disaster relief and money for border security.
According to a report from Punchbowl News, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is considering attaching the disaster money to a continuing resolution, separating it from the Ukraine spending. The report said he also wants changes to border policy and an increase in overall border security money in return for the additional Ukraine aid.
Here comes the Beggar of Kiev with his tin cup again.
Did you see the other beggar asking Kim Jung Un for more weapons to kill more Ukrainians?
Relevant how? Or are you paying taxes in Russia?
No, but this site is called antiwar. Not anti US wars.
Right. And I’m against anyone sending weapons to either side. How about you? But since this article, and MV’s comment, is about US taxpayer money being sent to Ukraine, my reply was about that.
US wars? Did you just admit to something?
The U.S./NATO is responsible for the killing of Ukrainians.
Russia is responsible for the killing of Ukrainians. Russia can leave at any time. In the meantime, the Ukes will be pushing them out.
And NATO could move away from Russia’s borders and Ukraine could treat its ethnic Russians as equals. In the meantime, more Ukrainians will die for the West (US) stated goal of weakening Russia.
Not the same as invasion and you know it!
Didn’t say it was. But if anybody thinks there will ever be real peace without at least addressing those issues, they’re sadly mistaken.
Russia could pull its sh!t Army out today and the war stops. Ukrainian soldiers dont die and Russia cannon fodders can go back to their normal lives
Without NATO Russia would’ve invaded Europe. NATO is the reason Russia cannot fulfill its imperialistic ambitions.
Russia doesn’t treat its minorities as equal either to include Ukrainians whom which they think dont have a nation of their own hence the invasion.
Should Ukraine invade Russia to protect its Ukrainians.?
You are Full of it as always.
Yes Don, Russia could indeed do that. And if you say it enough times, they might. But once again your problem is with facing possible actual realities. And of course, anyone who does, is “full of it”.
Russia could pull its sh!t Army out today and the war stops.
Without NATO Russia would’ve invaded Europe
And there you go again. This time you managed to do it in the same comment. A “shit army” that is going to take over Europe. That goes with their “shitty jets”, “their shitty pilots”, their “shitty nukes” their “shitty artillery”…am I missing anything?
Russia made NATO disarm itself, The Russians know how to handle USA/NATO for sure. Zelensky is passing his tin cup around again, he needs more money and more weapons, and fast, the winner is really a beggar.
No chance of NATO contracting now that Putin went to war with Ukraine. If Putin could win in Ukraine [which he can’t] , it would only increase NATO’s hostility to Russia. Of course, NATO provoked the bear. But the bear reacted like a dumb animal goaded into a trap by a canny human. Putin is doing exactly what Biden wanted him to do and hurting his own country in the process.
“What Biden wanted him to do” Now that’s rich giving that Dementia Joe can barely put two sentences together or find his way off stage. Now if you had said that Putin is doing exactly what his war mongering handlers wanted him to do, then your statement might have some creedence. Thanks for the laugh, “What Biden wanted him to do”. Hilarious.
Your boy Trump warned that Biden is gonna start WWII! Who’s got dementia?
Sounds like YOU suffer from dementia. You just make no sense at all.
As the cowardly lion says in the ‘Wizard of Oz’, “ain’t it the truth, ain’t it the truth”.
Did Trump start any wars while in office? While I would prefer Trump, Rand Paul or several others over the most incompetent, corrupt administration in place of the brain dead hologram in office now, I’m not a Trump or Putin puppet, just call it as I see it. Oh, and I was against Trump deciding to launch missiles into Syria not long after he had been in office. It cost me a friendship with one who thought differently. Like all people, Trump is a flawed man, but he’s not like the evil cabal we have in office now.
Like all people, Trump is a flawed man, but he’s not like the evil cabal we have in office now.
Sure he is.
OK. I won’t defend Biden. I’ll rephrase my last sentence “Putin is doing exactly what US policy makers wanted him to do and hurting his own country in the process.” The Ukraine war is hurting Russia in many ways. Tens of thousands dead Russians. Billions spent on a wasteful war. Doubling Russian output of ammunition can’t be good for the economy. And Putin still has to buy more ammunition from North Korea. The subtext here is that while China opposes US/EU sanctions, China has not and will not help the Russian war effort. By resorting to force in 2014 and invasion in 2022 Putin undermined and destroyed the Westerners who wanted detente with Russia , revitalized and expanded NATO and insured that Ukrainian and European enmity toward Russia for many years to come. A terrible blunder.
Like it or not, they forced Putin’s hand like they did with Hitler in 1939. Hitler offered pretty good terms to the Poles with regards to the Danzig corridor being a free trade zone, and the security of ethnic Germans in W Poland. The Allied War guarantee got the Poles away from the negotiation table and they banked on war. The Minsk accords were ignored for similar reasons, thus making war inevitable. No way Putin was going to allow the US to put nukes on the Ukrainian/ Russian border. Too many idiots still think we are the good guys. We’re not, and haven’t been for a very long time. DC needs it’s money laundering scheme to go on to keep the booty flowing in. The millions that have been killed around the world are a testament to how truly evil we are. The plea of ignorance isn’t going to change the fact that we are part of this horrific state of affairs. We like to bomb people!!! Tocqueville said it best, “Americans are killers”.
Pretty much sums it up. The U.S. has been at war in some form or another since its founding. The absurd notion that the U.S. is a ‘peace loving nation’ has shown to be empty propaganda to try and convince people that we really are the ‘good guys’ but as events continue to unfold fewer countries around the world buy into it and see the U.S. for what it is, a war mongering nation that wants to control everything everywhere and uses its military and its reserve currency status to enforce its will on other nations.
There was no chance of NATO contracting before the invasion either. Negotiations were dismissed out of hand. And the war games scheduled for 2022 meant that the bait wasn’t going to stop. I’d like to know what options were available that was going to change those things. The war was inevitable.
“There was no chance of NATO contracting before the invasion either.”
Actually, there was a significant chance of that happening. Trump got the “make them pay their fair share” discussion going, and absent signs of a militarily restive Russia, that discussion might well have proceeded to a point where some member states said “no, we aren’t spending X% of our budgets on military stuff, we’re out, have a nice day.”
The IMMEDIATE effect of the Russian invasion was to bring two new states into NATO and to ensure that Ukraine will be a de facto NATO member state for decades to come. Among existing NATO states, there was an initial panicked “we need to expand out militaries” reaction, but that’s thankfully already subsiding. So while Putin’s folly delayed the shrinkage/dissolution of NATO, it is still very possible.
Actually, there was a significant chance of that happening.
If you would have said “slight” I might have agreed. Significant? Not even close.
If the war was inevitable, then Russia’s defeat was inevitable. It no longer matters what happens on the battlefield. The Ukrainians won’t give up the fight even if their army is defeated. Russia will never be able to pacify the Donbas, Zaporhizia or Kherson or lift martial law in the occupied territories. And the war will inevitably spread to Russia. Eventually Russia will get a pragmatic leader who understands that on a cost benefit analysis, the war is a disaster for Russia. Russia will withdraw from Ukraine in defeat.
Whether Russia’s defeat is inevitable is another argument. But the rest of your comment is just conjecture based on your continuous irrelevant analogies. And we can only hope for a “pragmatic” leader. Maybe we could exhume Yeltsin.
The U.S. can stop menacing Russia with NATO Expansion and arming Ukraine to the hilt at any time also. Zelensky and his NeoNazis are killing Ukrainians.
RUSSIANS are killing Ukrainians. Stop your childish s**t!
Rational thinker lol
User name doesn’t check out.
They wont. These are Putin hardcore loyalists. Putin can take a sh!t on their mother’s chests and they’d blame it on their mothers.
Same as maga cultists. Once you reach that level, there’s no coming back.
It’s actually a mental condition. They FEEL a certain way so that’s reality. Facts don’t’ matter. Neuroscientists say “disbelief” is cognitively demanding and it’s easier for the human mind just to believe what they’re told.
How’s it going for the Russians again?
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Tell me who actually started this war and don`t say Putin because that will tell me you have no idea and just peddling Western propaganda , i will give you a clue it began in the nineteen nineties .
Putin.
See above.
Putin.
CLINTON did it when he broke the NATO agreement with Russia by expanding NATO to the East, the Russian border.
If you only had a brain or the Lord would let it rain brains.
Actually YOU are responsible for the deaths of the Ukrainians…
For SHAME!
Well, that’s a pretty anti-Russian statement. You don’t think Russians are capable of killing Ukrainians, or have the brain power to make that decision for themselves?
Russians are killing in self-defense, no matter how you spin the Biden narrative.
Biden is responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians. He turned down every single diplomatic peace negotiation without ever taking the Russians up on it. The man has no conscience, no decency no matter how you twist it.
Biden said, Russia lost the war, then why are the Ukrainians still dying and Americans funding the slaughter of young men??? WHAT FOR???
That’s pretty muddled thinking, even for you.
Well, I wouldn’t dream of contesting your credentials in the field of muddled thinking.
Sure, chief.
I’m only idiots like you protect dumbasses like Putin.
Putin invades and annexes Ukraine and you blame the west. I guess you blame Iraq for the US invasion.
Cannot reason with your stupidity shared with most of you here.
“I guess you blame Iraq for the US invasion.”
The US certainly did. But that comparison is beyond stupid. I won’t even go into details since you’ll only reply with more stupidity.
Shut up hypocrite.
You criticize the US foreign interventions while supporting the Russian ones.
Only in your f k up brain. Same as the rest of russian supporters here. You are no different.
Sell out.
If only once I had said I supported Russia’s invasion, you might have a point. But I haven’t, so you don’t. So, your argument that you use over and over and over again has no basis in reality. And yet you keep repeating it. Why? Because you are a stupid person, and you have nothing else.
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Either you are totally ignorant of the history leading up to the SMO or you are a shill for the Deep State.
Russia is buying weapons. Biden refuses to end the killing since no American comes back in a body bag at least not before the election. Biden, the neocons, and the Ukraine neo-Nazis wanted this war, and Biden, the demented old man, feels omnipotent and wants more war with China too.
The Chinese are not as stupid as Putin.
Until they invade Taiwan , or do you think they will wait until the war mongering yanks turn Taiwan into a US Air Craft Carrier like Britain .
The Russians gave the Americans and Europeans the benefit of a doubt, they found out, the Americans can’t be trusted, so the Chinese learned from the Russian experience. No need to relearn the lesson.
The Chinese DID learn from the Russian experience. F**k around and find out.
Is there something you wanted to say?
Neo Nazi Putin is the one who invaded, you jackass.
Paleo Nazi Biden is the one who triggered the invasion by engineering a coup in Kiev, you moron.
There is no evidence that Putin sought weapons from North Korea. That is just projecting US needs for artillery ammo.
So what was Putin doing? It is called horizontal escalation. He was threatening the US, threatening the US with its own fears about the US/North Korean de-nuclearization goals.
The Admin changes the subject, rather than admit it has real concerns about what Russia is doing.
We shouldn’t be surprised to learn that North Korean submarines armed with modern nukes are patrolling the western coast of America.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/13/putin-kim-share-warm-welcomes-in-during-second-meeting-in-four-years
I’m thinking if Putin didn’t meet with Kim for weapons he would have denied it.
MM: you have a sense of poetry in your writing Zelensky IMHO is a traitor tp the hopes and aspirations of the Ukrainian people as was Obama to his supporters. Biden nis on the same path.
More like a Gold Bucket.
Better tell Hunter to get the top shelf cocaine ready with the good silver!
Sometimes extortion must take place face to face.
The flag of the US is wrong. It should be a dollar sign.
Instead stars, there would be dollar signs. Instead of strips, there would be the names of the MIC + Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan,et al.
Like a NASCAR uniform.
Just a bunch of good old boys chewing tobacco and drinking moonshine.
That’s an insult to the bunch of good old boys chewing tobacco and drinking moonshine community!
It is logical to mix disaster money with the help to Kiev regime. Ukraine became a real disaster zone.
The disaster in Ukraine was overthrowing the legitimate government in 2014. thats the event that started it all.
Yes, it was a turning point in Ukrainian history. However, there was a chance to drag Ukraine back to normality by acting within Minsk Agreements which, by the way, was approved by UNSC. The last chapter of Ukrainian miserable history started after both NATO and Ukraine openly denounced Minsk Agreements and began a massive artillery attack on Donetsk.
If you remember, the first unconstitutional change of Ukrainian president happened in 2004 after, sponsored by US, Orange Revolution. It was not a bloody event. So, it was possible to return to normal life. Preparing for 2014 coup, US made sure, this time Ukrainian people couldn’t turn back to normal life. That’s why a great number of neo-Nazi militants was specially trained for killing and terrorizing people. After capturing the power in Kiev, they launched a real war against Donbass where the support for legal president Yanukovich was greatest.
The cause of all those nasty events was the oligarchy political system which was established in Ukraine immediately after the independence. Similar political system was also established in Russia and Belarus but they managed to get rid of it: Belarus in 1994, Russia in 2000-2004.
The PIVOT of it all was the refusal from the start by the USA Obama regime to not support the MINSK agreements. Putin knew as well as Merkel and Holland what it meant. The Russians took the Ukrainians up on their word.
When NATO made Ukraine a de facto NATO member the Russians knew they had to get ready for war. The neocons are the stupid people who wear blinders, not Putin and the Russians.
Of course US wouldn’t support Minsk Agreements because it deprived them of hope to establish US navy base in Crimea. The great disappointment was the behavior of Germany and France.
All those 7 years both NATO and Russia were preparing for the war. Many people in Russia think it was a mistake to give NATO and Kiev regime those 7 years. On the other hand, Russia also used those years to prepare for the confrontation with NATO.
I personally inclined to think, it would be much better for Russia and Ukraine if Russian army interfered in Ukrainian civil war in 2014. I think there would be much less of bloodshed. Russia could easy take under control all those regions where Yanukovich got the majority in 2010. Then, maybe, Ukraine could be divided in two independent states without further bloodshed.
I do agree with you, but NATO would have most likely interfered if Russia had been winning the conflict, and Russia at that time was not prepared to fight NATO. The Russians played for time too and again offered Ukrainian neutrality in Dec, 2021, but Biden again said no and learned nothing and said NO in Mar. 2022 again.
It is Biden’s war, he had the opportunity to avoid the war if he had wanted to. Russians know what war is like, Putin did all he could to avoid the war, Biden did all he could to get his war. I have no doubts about this point, it is Biden’s war at the cost of other nations young men’s lives and blood, and civilians and country. The Ukrainians pay the highest price, Russia, and Europe. If 2014 would have been better we will never know, the same PNAC Russophobe neocons with blinders were in the state department running the show as are now.
The REAL WAR CRIMINALS, Biden and company suffer the least and the Ukrainian people are being sacrificed to benefit them. To send men, young and old, by the THOUSANDS to be killed in battles Zelensky and Biden and their servants know they can not win is GENOCIDE, war crimes. The USA/NATO leadership is despicable, evil, civilians as well as in uniform. Compared to all the generals Eichmann was a dwarf.
I believe the Russians prepared for 30 years, if not longer. It was inevitable.
After the collapse of USSR, Russian army was devastated by pro-western oligarchy. When in August 1999, Wahhabi Army invaded Dagestan, very few Russian troops were ready to fight. The invasion failed mostly thanks to Dagestani volunteers who categorically refused to become a part of Ichkeria. Between 2000 and 2012 the absolute priority for Russia was the neutralization of US nuclear threat. The conventional military forces were neglected. Only last 11 years, Russia is modernizing the conventional weapons and taking care of the army. Particular great progress was done in the last 18 months.
You are right, at least since Clinton broke the agreements and expanded NATO to the east and the Russians were reminded that the Americans can’t be trusted, they are back stabbers. (The nations morally bankrupt establishment not the American people.)
The American people are guilty of being lazy and misinformed.Not to mention powerless to change a fucked up political system.
In 2014 NATO was even less prepared for the war with Russia than Russia for the war with NATO. I think, the only justification why Putin didn’t interfered in 2014 was vulnerability of Russian economy and Russian financial system. As we learned, the main danger to Russia in 2022 was the economic war. In 2022 Russia could cope with it quite easily. Probably, in 2014, it would be much more difficult. One thing looks obvious: in 2014 there would be much less of bloodshed. As we know, the best Ukrainian troops (20 000 strong) at the time were in Crimea. 90% of them defected and there were no bloodshed at all. Most Ukrainian army at the time refused to take orders from the new Kiev regime.
I do agree with you. After the regime change the US imposed sanctions on Russia, and the civil war in Ukraine also began were Ukrainians KILLED more than 10 000 RUSSIAN SPEAKING Ukrainians, because they were opposing the regime change in Kiev.
Putin offered Ukrainians neutrality and peace, what did Biden offer? Has he done anything to end the slaughter of the Ukrainians and the Russian soldiers? Biden has done NOTHING, he blocked any diplomatic negotiation to stop the slaughter. What business has the USA/NATO in Ukraine anyway, why are they there? What have the NATO members done for the Ukrainian people, other than killing them, feeding them in the meat grinder. The USA’s MIC is making huge profits killing all the other nations young men.
I also agree with you but what US is doing was quite predictable. In my opinion, Putin could cope with this problem better. He is too cautious. I don’t think any western sanctions could destroy Russia in 2014. Sure it would be more difficult for the majority of Russian people. Still it would be much better than such an awful meatgrinder we are watching now.
Many people see it the way you do, you may be right. All that is hindsight and the neocons have learned nothing at all.
All I know now is that the Biden neocon cabal are evil people.
Of course it is hindsight. However, in spring and summer 2014, Strelkov (Girkin), who at the time was the commander-in -chief of Donetsk Republic, was outraged at the lack of help from Kremlin. He was talking about betrayal and since that time he is kind of personal enemy of Putin. He is a weak politician but in 2014-2015 it was clear that Russia could take easy pro-Russian half of Ukraine with minimum of military efforts and with much smaller bloodshed than what we got now. Maybe Putin didn’t wanted to scare other post-Soviet republics’ elites, or he hoped Germany and France would act in their own interests rather than in interests of American MIC, but instead of taking firm pro-Donbass people’s position, he recognized the new Kiev regime. People of eastern half of former Ukraine Socialist Republic are paying particularly dear for this blunder. I don’t think they deserved it. No one ever asked them in communist times whether they wish to be separated from Russia. The criminal Bolshevik gang created a lot of artificial borders. Not only Ukrainians and Russians are suffering from the consequences, the other people too: Armenians, Azeris, Ossetians, Georgians and some other people.
Who could have predicted or thought how insane and unreasonable Biden and the neocon scums would be? Saner people would have agreed to diplomatic solutions a long time ago, actually before the conflict even started. The world needs regime change in DC now, but is there a sane person even left in the asylum?
Don’t worry, tankies. It’s going well for your boy Putin. Hahaha.
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Germany paid for it with the Nord Stream being blown up.
And that is not forgotten in Europe, it will come back to hound the hegemon in Washington.
I think you are right, Putin took them up on their offer, but in the back of his head, I think he was on guard to see if they would live up to the commitment. He is not naïve, he has lots of experience, he knows the Western powers.
The US has nothing but lies and damned lies.
So true, but we will never know.
It is well known that Minsk I & II were stalling measures. Total subterfuge.
You are right. Germans opted for the war and for the industrial devastation of their own country. Nazism is on the rise in Europe. Recently, one of German politicians used the word Untermenschen while talking about Russians in Donbass.
The leadership of the US thinks that 75% of the world is Untermenschen just like the Nazis and Israelies.
You could say the same thing about Iran,Chile,Congo Indonesia and many others over the last 50 to 70 years.
The Russian puppet was deposed and left the country like a coward. End of story.
Oh what tangled webs we weave when we first start to deceive. The Bard I believe.
“When first we practice to deceive”…
Sorry Donna your quote is correct. I am getting old fast.
In the last 50 years or so a whole lot of negative shit has gone down. there is not a lot of time left for mankind to fix the hell we are in.
Real disaster zone thanks to Putin.
Your idiotic comments remind me of the comic pages on the Sunday editions of the papers when I was young.
It is Biden’s war. He and his neocon scum want more war, Ukraine is supposed to wear Russia out, after that it is the turn of NATO and Europe. They are war criminals and you are their accomplice willingly funding the bill making it possible.
So far it’s been a good investment. Russia will soon be a third world country.
So far it’s been a good investment
There it is. Never mind the dead people that you feign to care about.
The dead people were a result of the Russian invasion. No amount of tortured “peace logic” can change that.
Regardless. You called it a good investment. And the reason you gave didn’t seem to take into consideration how much death and destruction Ukraine would have to endure so Russia would indeed be made into a third world country. But I guess it would be “worth it” to you.
Russia is the one turning into a third world country thanks to Ukraine fighting back.
And the beating will get even worse for Russia and your support for Russia will desperately increase as seen lately.
You’ve been waiting eagerly for Ukraine to get annihilated so you can proof your anti US point.
It wont happen and many more young russian men will die by the hands of the very dictator you so much support.
Don’t you tire of being stupid? And like I told your clone, it is you jingoistic fucks who cheerlead the billions being sent to a foreign country while our infrastructure crumbles. So, you’re good with the US being a third world country? Who is really the anti-US faction here? You.
US third world? The f you talking about?.
Oh new line. There’s plenty of money for infrastructure. Congress just meeds to pass the bill.
The money sent to support ukraine has saved us many more billions in the future.
We now know the mighty army they claimed to have does not exist.
US third world? The f you talking about?.
Bankrupting themselves [policing the world. Man, you are slow.
Oh new line. There’s plenty of money for infrastructure. Congress just meeds to pass the bill.
No, there isn’t plenty of money for BOTH.
The money sent to support ukraine has saved us many more billions in the future.
Right, because that money that would have gone to “defense” will suddenly stop flowing to the MIC. Never mind China, Iran, North Korea……
We now know the mighty army they claimed to have does not exist.
Same one we have to stop from conquering Europe? That one?
Ukraine has been annihilated practically already. Just because an old and demented president said Russia lost the war does not make it so. Ukraine has lost generations of young and able bodied young men able to clean up the rubble and rebuild the country. Maybe their mothers, wives and children can rebuild the nation, right, when they come back from where they fled to? And you will be there to help, right?
OK. Canada and Mexico become belligerents, become armed with nukes on our borders. What do we do? More nukes are added by Canada and Mexico. What then?
Don’t worry about nukes on our border Sub based nukes could wipe us out in minutes. See. That’s what the real adults already know. You children listen to what your daddy Putin feeds you.
Well then, we shouldn’t really need to have any nukes on Russia’s borders now should we? And surrounding them with NATO countries shouldn’t be necessary either, am I right? I see an easy fix.
Yeah, that’s what i say, why put nukes in kaliningrad and belarus?
Let me guess, it’s US fault because it’s US and Putin doesn’t do anything wrong and thus you side with him always.
Sell out.
Did I say anything that would lead you to believe that I’m in favor of Russia deploying nukes anywhere? I mean, it would be different if you could actually find where I said any of the shit you attribute to me saying but as usual you just rattle off the same nonsense.
The old nuclear bombshell in NATO countries are for deterrence and a “sense of security” for those countries. Seeing how Russia broke its promise not to invade if Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons, I think it’s prudent for those numbs to remain. Russia is the only country that’s shown aggression and continues to threaten the Weat with nuclear war. As far as surrounding Russia with NATO countries: Russia has caused themselves to be surrounded after their invasion. Cause and effect.
What a nonsense, you really don’t know a thing. The USA broke every agreement, they are a deceptive bunch of scum.
I apologize for my language, but normal talk does not sink in, nothing will, there is nothing but concrete where soft tissue should be.
You talk nonsense then refuse to see reality.
Actually your language is mild compared to what peace advocates are thinking and using. It is all we have left
So, we don’t have any “sub based nukes” anywhere in the region that could wipe out Russia?
Broken promises? C’mon, this war wouldn’t be happening if the West hadn’t broken the “not one-inch eastwards” promise way back when the cold war ended. And that played a huge role in Gorbachev convincing the Soviet Union hardliners to go along.
Once more, if the US was surrounded by an anti-US military alliance, the nuke talk would be similar. As is, it’s not like it hasn’t been mentioned.
Were you not aware of NATO moving eastward many years before the invasion? It’s more like self-fulfilling prophesy that Russia finally took the bait.
Ugh. Stop with the Putin paranoia.
Right. Those NATO countries surrounding Russia are just a figment of his imagination. It must be nice to close one’s eyes and ignore reality in order to espouse one’s own narrative.
Russia took whatever bait they decided. Shame on them. Again, f**k around and find out.
Good answer. For a 10 year old.
“Needed” by whom? “Necessary” to whom?
Lots of money gets made manufacturing, maintaining, “modernizing,” and deploying nuclear weapons.
Only a tiny bit of that money has to be spent lobbying for the lucrative contracts to manufacture, maintain, “modernize,” and deploy them.
If you have to ask why, the answer is almost always “money.”
Stupid comment.
Do you even know that BIDEN turned DOWN the offer of NEUTRALITY for Ukraine WITHOUT ASKING OR CONSULTING THE HEAD OF STATE ZELENSKY of THE SOVEREIGN STATE of UKRAINE?
Who needs enemies with friends like that?
Kissinger said it, to have the US as a friend is fatal, ask the Germans they know it too.
Yes. I do know.
“He [Biden] stands by the proposition that countries should be able to freely choose who they associate with,” Sullivan said. (CNBC.com, Dec 2021)
If Zelensky disagreed, then he should’ve made an agreement with Russia. Please post a source that said Zalensky didn’t agree with Biden. I’ll wait…
Do you know the other side too has the to freely choose who they want to associate with?
right to say no we don’t want you?
Can you provide a link to the meeting between Biden and Zelensky where Zelensky agreed with Biden? Where was it and when?
In March 2022 Zelensky was ready to give up the NATO membership and Boris Johnson informed him he could not do it, Biden was not ready for that. That was even reported in MSM. Biden is in charge, not Zelensky and you know it. But, whatever you are, rational you are not.
Do you care about the ridiculous amount of Russian cannon fodders that Putin has killed for his personal war?
You dont, its a Russian thing not to give a fk about your troops.
Ukraine doesn’t have an option. It’s fight or lose your nation.
But you have no fking idea what is like to fight for your nation.
Go figure, “antiwar” Putin lover as always. Supporter of the Russian invasion and annexation of Ukraine.
Why not just copy and paste your stupidity and just keep it simple.
Oh, by the way:
You: “I used to respect Putin and side with him a while ago, that stopped in 2014”
Now think back to 2008 and explain why you didn’t stop respecting and siding with Putin at that time. And since you’ve said you did 24 years in the service, you didn’t let your military brainwashing turn on Putin. Why Don?
You mean Biden’s personal war, right? He wants to be reelected and his son needs a new job as far as I know.
I care about the history of the US. The massacre of 50 million Native Americans. the importing and subjugating millions of Africans and the denying of rights to immigrants and women .The elimination of unions and the organized theft by Wall Street and Banks.The readily availabliity of automatic weapons to members of the lunatic fringe. The shitty education available in school systems. The demise of our rivers,lakes and roads. All of these are coming back to bite our ass.
Not Russia, but Germany and the other G-7 nations, members of the EU and NATO will be, sort of like the American rustbelt in N.E. USA. And the USA will be A HAS BEEN EMPIRE. It already is a pretty run down country. Biden is not been liked by other heads of states, he made enemies out of allies where ever he went. Most of the global population does hate the US hegemon.
The neocons are digging the hegemon’s grave deeper and deeper. It is a suicidal investment, get ready to send your condolences to whoever might be left to take it. Maybe Nuland will be left to accept the honor.
Who has Biden made enemies of? Despots? The US is seen as the big brother everyone looks to to protect them. Your narrative is BS. Get over yourself, tankie.
Either you are very uninformed or just not a rational thinker. You make no sense at all.
NATO is held together with Band Aids and coercion, the members will take the first chance they get to break the relationship with the monstrous hegemon in Washington. Orban is the beginning, Scholz in Germany you can write off too, Serbia is ready to join the others. The break up will be an avalanche.
The 5 eyes left could be the USA,UK, AUSTRALIA, CANADA, AND NEWSEALAND.
To re-build the trust the US hegemon wasted will take for ever to win back.
The US WILL BE PRETTY MUCH ALONE and isolated.
NATO is stronger than ever. Those pseudo-facials won’t gain much more traction. You keep wishing in one hand, and s**ting in the other and see which one fills up first!
NATO is falling apart, the economies of most EU/NATO members are failing, they have nothing left to give after they disarmed their armies to support Ukraine, and they hate Biden for coercing them with threats of sanctions. The Biden scum blew up the LG pipelines in order to break their economies, why should they like you?
What goes round comes round. The US and its stooges will be isolated by the civilized world or there will not be anything left except rats and roaches.
You lost your mind, but maybe you never had a mind.
It is his war to end. He is like a rat in a Skinner box. His is in with not enough focus to get out. Not quite Schrodinger’s Cat. Or maybe…………
What I find remarkable is the fact that no establishment figure ever asked what Biden and his neocon criminal team and the criminal Zelensky could do to end the slaughter, it is always what Putin should have or should do to end it. Zelensky, the monster, is being lifted on the pedestal. When he comes to congress our miserable elected officials will again be swinging the flag for the to the bone corrupt man, who supports genocide of his nation as long as long as the money gets delivered by Biden. What scum these people really are.
What a surprise? A Ukrainian politician with a brown nose.
I am sure the people of Lahaina will be very happy to hear it.
That should cost tax payers another couple $$ Billion
I am damn sure he is here to stir up more war fever as well as asking for more money and support for more advanced weaponry to be used in a losing situation. Biden and his people plus Congress are dumb enough to give him what he wants. An ongoing bonanza for the weapons contractors and ruin for America.
He does as Biden wants, Biden and his cabal want war with Russia, with NATO boots on the ground on the European continent.
If that happens it would greatly increase the threat of Nuclear War.
Biden and his cabal do believe they can win a nuclear war. They are insane.
Biden has been a disgrace his entire political life.
24 to be exact.
If my tax money is going to be taken anyway, I’m OK with it defeating aggressors and tyrants.
Tax me for anyone’s fight for freedom.
If tax money is to be “taken” I think I’d rather see it spent domestically. You jingoistic types that always accuse me of being anti-American, not so much.
I’d like to see it used domestically but the right-wingers won’t allow it. So, I’m OK with it being used against tyranny.
Sure, after I shamed you into saying that. And where would the left get the money? They vote for the same bloated defense budgets that the right does.
How do you know you shamed him?
Do i shame you when i state you support the invasion and annexation of ukraine? Im sure i dont. You dont have shame.
You went full russian, so just worry about where your russian people’s tax paying money is going.
How do you know you shamed him?
Because he didn’t bring it up until I brought it up.
Do i shame you when i state you support the invasion and annexation of ukraine? Im sure i dont. You dont have shame.
No. Because it’s bullshit.
But we both know this isn’t:
You: “I used to respect Putin and side with him a while ago, that stopped in 2014”
You are anti US.
No question about it You support the US adversaries and you wish US gets defeated to proof your point.
Your support for putin makes you a fifth column collaborator.
You sell out.
It’s one thing criticizing your country’s domestic and foreign policies. It’s another to go full retard in support of adversaries
You are anti US. I want all US taxpayer money to be spent in the US on the US. You, NOT.
We don’t have adversaries. We have made up enemies to keep the trough for the MIC filled. You support THAT.
Your support for putin makes you a fifth column collaborator.
You: “I used to respect Putin and side with him a while ago, that stopped in 2014”
Not me. YOU.
I agree.
From now on, defeating multiple “aggressors and tyrants” known worldwide as The United States of America should be nice and easy.
To proceed, strictly in accordance with the factual evidence available in the public domain to date, your tax money should now be spent on The US Armed Forces carpet bombing themselves into oblivion with immediate effect.
Further introductory reading by William Blum:
Introduction
Chapter 1: China – 1945 to 1960s: Was Mao Tse-tung just paranoid?
Chapter 2: Italy – 1947-1948: Free elections, Hollywood style
Chapter 3: Greece – 1947 to early 1950s: From the cradle of democracy to client state
Chapter 4: The Philippines – 1940s and 1950s: America’s oldest colony
Chapter 5: Korea – 1945-1953: Was it all that it appeared to be?
Chapter 6: Albania – 1949-1953: The proper English spy
Chapter 7: Eastern Europe – 1948-1956: Operation Splinter Factor
Chapter 8: Germany – 1950s: Everything from juvenile delinquency to terrorism
Chapter 9: Iran – 1953: Making it Safe for the King of Kings
Chapter 10: Guatemala – 1953-1954: While the world watched
Chapter 11: Costa Rica – Mid-1950s: Trying to topple an ally – Part 1
Chapter 12: Syria – 1956-1957: Purchasing a new government
Chapter 13: Middle East – 1957-1958: The Eisenhower Doctrine claims another backyard for America
Chapter 14: Indonesia – 1957-1958: War and Pornography
Chapter 15: Western Europe – 1950s and 1960s: Fronts within fronts within fronts
Chapter 16: British Guiana – 1953-1964: The CIA’s International Labor Mafia
Chapter 17: Soviet Union – Late 1940s to 1960s: From spy planes to book publishing
Chapter 18: Italy – 1950s to 1970s: Supporting the Cardinal’s orphans and techno-fascism
Chapter 19: Vietnam – 1950-1973: The Hearts and Minds Circus
Chapter 20: Cambodia – 1955-1973: Prince Sihanouk walks the high-wire of neutralism
Chapter 21: Laos – 1957-1973: L’Armée Clandestine
Chapter 22: Haiti – 1959-1963: The Marines land, again
Chapter 23: Guatemala – 1960: One good coup deserves another
Chapter 24: France/Algeria – 1960s: L’état, c’est la CIA
Chapter 25: Ecuador – 1960-1963: A text book of dirty tricks
Chapter 26: The Congo – 1960-1964: The assassination of Patrice Lumumba
Chapter 27: Brazil – 1961-1964: Introducing The Marvellous New World of Death Squads
Chapter 28: Peru – 1960-1965: Fort Bragg moves to the jungle
Chapter 29: Dominican Republic – 1960-1966: Saving democracy from communism by getting rid of democracy
Chapter 30: Cuba – 1959 to 1980s: The Unforgivable Revolution
Chapter 31: Indonesia – 1965: Liquidating President Sukarno ..: and 500,000 others; East Timor – 1975: And 200,000 more
Chapter 32: Ghana – 1966: Kwame Nkrumah steps out of line
Chapter 33: Uruguay – 1964-1970: Torture—as American as apple pie
Chapter 34: Chile – 1964-1973: A hammer and sickle stamped on your child’s forehead
Chapter 35: Greece – 1964-1974: “F*** your Parliament and your Constitution,” said the President of the United States
Chapter 36: Bolivia – 1964-1975: Tracking down Che Guevara in the land of coup d’etat
Chapter 37: Guatemala – 1962 to 1980s: A less publicized “final solution”
Chapter 38: Costa Rica – 1970-1971: Trying to topple an ally—Part 2
Chapter 39: Iraq – 1972-1975: Covert action should not be confused with missionary work
Chapter 40: Australia – 1973-1975: Another free election bites the dust
Chapter 41: Angola – 1975 to 1980s: The Great Powers Poker Game
Chapter 42: Zaire – 1975-1978: Mobutu and the CIA, a marriage made in heaven
Chapter 43: Jamaica – 1976-1980: Kissinger’s ultimatum
Chapter 44: Seychelles – 1979-1981: Yet another area of great strategic importance
Chapter 45: Grenada – 1979-1984: Lying—one of the few growth industries in Washington
Chapter 46: Morocco – 1983: A video nasty
Chapter 47: Suriname – 1982-1984: Once again, the Cuban bogeyman
Chapter 48: Libya – 1981-1989: Ronald Reagan meets his match
Chapter 49: Nicaragua – 1981-1990: Destabilization in slow motion
Chapter 50: Panama – 1969-1991: Double-crossing our drug supplier
Chapter 51: Bulgaria 1990/Albania 1991: Teaching communists what democracy is all about
Chapter 52: Iraq – 1990-1991: Desert Holocaust
Chapter 53: Afghanistan – 1979-1992: America’s Jihad
Chapter 54: El Salvador – 1980-1994: Human rights, Washington style
Chapter 55: Haiti – 1986-1994: Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?
Chapter 56: The American Empire – 1992 to present
Notes
Appendix I: This is How the Money Goes Round
Appendix II: Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-1945
Appendix III: US Government Assassination Plots
Index
Worry about your tax paying money to Putin to fund his personal war.
Please STFU.
~5 years from now large number of Maserati cars will be owned and driven by Ukrainians on the streets of Miami.
Better not pout, better not cry, Sir Gimme Gimme is coming to town, that’s why. He knows what you’ve been spending, he knows what guns you own, he knows if you’ve been hiding from Kiev’s favorite gnome, ….,
So, you better be good, you better dig deep, you better not make a single small peep, cause Z-Lensky is coming to town!
Celebrating the Un-Santa, who takes gifts in lieu of giving them.
super.
$24 billion for Ukraine and $16 billion for disaster relief for Americans.
Nice to know, it sure makes sense, right?
That is how war presidents win elections.
Which ever way they they write the bill, it is the work of elected scum bags.
There really is no difference in the Republicans,Democrats or the fascists of Trump and DeSantis. One way they win,the other we lose.
You should look into RFK, Jr. He seems to be the real deal. He has said that if he is elected he will bring the troops home, “all of them.”
He will be eliminated before any such thing happens. These peoples world control is at stake. Nothing will change. I dimly remember whom said that.
We need to make them do it. Kennedy has made clear he is not afraid.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Here’s Tucker Carlson.
https://www.facebook.com/100090999845821/videos/tucker-carlson-whats-coming-is-worse-than-ww3/1005072910814461/
Fantastic clip. The only thing he forgot was the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. I can easily see Zelensky blowing it up as a pretext for the Democrats and Republicans to start a nuclear war with Russia to SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT. (Sarcasm)
Congress, with all due respect, is suppose to work for US, not for any other nation/country. Billions of dollars could go along way to help fix problems that WE, the American People have. The “dole” of politicians has gone on long enough…………………………………………………………………..
I agree with you 100%. How are you going to change a society or culture so corrupt and evil that is supports genocide,murder and mass incarceration and the death penalty. these MFs are capable of destroying the planet and not losing ant sleep.
Borders, wars and free trade…more money can always get printed to fund ever deeper commitment to walls, warfare, and long distance corporate monopoly trade. Freedom means fossil fuels, never having to talk peace, little good education or work, and those who can afford a home frequently getting driven from them by relentless climate disasters. Freedom does not mean real choices at the ballot box, in internet providers, in credible news sources, in means of transportation or sources of food.
We have all the resources needed to build a better world as soon as we can organize ourselves to do it instead of just always digging ourselves into a deeper hole.
The nations elite is not interested to build a better world. All they know how to build is warehouses and using millions of tons of asphalt and concrete building layers and layers of roads without any consideration for the landscape, architecture or the environment. They build suburbs along highways, with shacks and strip-malls without a downtown. The a real city/town has a heart, the center which is a real City Hall and a real public Placa, with businesses and restaurants to mingle, nothing. We have the ugliest cities I know of.
Certainly not compared to the old citys of Europe who even if bombed were reconstructed. Full of old world charm
What the nation does not have is an elite with integrity, intelligence and morals.
The best they have to offer are people like demented Biden and a conman like Trump, and a Mitch McConnell and a Nancy Pelosi and others like them.
Where are our writers like a Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Vonnegut, Mark Twain, Steinbeck and Musicians like Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and so many more. It is an intellectual desert out there.
Don’t forget Hedges,Lawrence,Chomsky.Hersh,Turse,Oxenberg,Bacevich,McCoy,Baroud,Nader,Scahill and Klein.
Mate, Taibbi, the crew at consortium news, etc
There are many more perceptive writers who see what is happening. The PTB deny them a voice that can reach a majority of the population. That is how they stay in power.
Exactly, and more, I did not forget they are also denied access to MSM.
And the American people and all citizens are the worse for it.
Gore Vidal: United States of Amnesia
Vonnegut: So It Goes
The printed money is not for us.
Yeah i can see it now all the war mongers standing up and clapping like the IDIOTS they are with Zelenskey show boating like there`s no tomorrow telling the war mongers how he is going to destroy Russia if only you give more money and weapons .
“Zelensky to Visit Washington Next Week as Congress Debates New Ukraine Spending – The White House has asked for an additional $24 billion in spending on the proxy war”
Does anyone else hate Zelensky as much as I do? This criminal will not be happy until America is bankrupt and World War 3 begins.
Nostradamus predicted an evil man from the east would destroy the world.
Voltaire had an even more accurate prediction. He said, “I wouldn’t be surprised…” More than 200 years before nuclear weapons. (Sarcasm)
Are you speaking about Biden from Scranton and Delaware?
I know Presidente Zelensky does not have much time in the U.S. (he has to get back & campaign for his re-election in fifteen or twenty years) and not to sound like his mother, but, he REALLY should make the effort to get up to Maine and make an appearance for those brave patriotic ubermenschen Super Soldiers that Chris Polhaus is training to go fight for Ukraine.
It would really boost their resolve if he could drop by and say a quick heil, maybe hand out some cookies.
He’ll call anyone who speaks out against the new handout a “tool of Putin”. That will make them all feel bad, and give him whatever he wants. Because the US government. all branches, and all bureaucracies, including the military, state, every intelligence agency, and the state controlled media consists of fools, cowards, cynical opportunists and traitors, and Zelensky knows how to pull their strings.
Will there be a change in costume for this performance?
Not likely.
What a putz.
Let’s hope an American patriot eliminates the Zelensky threat.
In over 3 months of the Russian SMO NATO has lost 71 thousand troops (casualties) and 8,200 pieces of equipment. Trillions have been spent in the nearly 10 years of this NATO war on humanity. According to US politicians its the best money they have ever spent. These are psychopaths, predators consuming humanity. Absolute MONSTERS.
NATO has already lost; 467 Aircraft, 249 helicopters, 6800 UAV’s, 437 Anti Aircraft systems, 11865 tanks inc. APC’s, 1150 multiple rocket launchers, 6394 field artillery and 13019 military automotive equipment. Approx. $1 Trillion of NATO hardware.
NATO pushed the so called “Counter Offensive” to break up the Russian war of attrition which NATO was loosing badly. The so called “Counter Offensive” was a last ditch effort to shape the European battlefield in favour of NATO.
It would be a shame if he were to have an accident during his visit.
Will he be bringing the Biden Family kickbacks for this war, or did he have to pay in advance to get the invite?
The White House has asked for an additional $24 billion in spending on the proxy war
right. and when they blow through that in a hurry they will be asking for yet more.
it is indeed a war of attrition, and regular american taxpayers are also losing.
Zelensky to Visit Washington Next Week
Perhaps Drag Queen Zelensky can party with Pete Buttplug and John Kirby.