Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen insisted on Monday that the US could “certainly” afford to fund the war in Ukraine and Israel’s onslaught on Gaza as the White House is looking for more military aid for both conflicts.
Yellen’s comments came a day after President Biden said the US could fund both wars. “We’re the United States of America for God’s sake, the most powerful nation in the history — not in the world, in the history of the world. The history of the world. We can take care of both of these and still maintain our overall international defense,” he said on 60 Minutes.
Yellen said the House needs to elect a new speaker so the new funding could be authorized. “We do need to come up with funds, both for Israel and for Ukraine. This is a priority,” she said. “It’s really up to the House to find, seat a speaker and to put us in a position where legislation can be passed.”
The White House has also discussed the possibility of rolling funding to arm Taiwan into the potential spending package. But Yellen did not mention Taiwan, and other Biden administration officials have made clear this week that Ukraine and Israel are the priority.
“America can certainly afford to stand with Israel and to support Israel’s military needs and we also can and must support Ukraine in its struggle against Russia,” Yellen said.
Discussing US support for Israel, Yellen said, “We stand with Israel. America has also made clear to Israel, we’re working very closely with the Israelis, that they have a right to defend themselves. But it’s important to try to spare innocent civilian lives to the maximum extent possible.”
While paying lip service to the idea of sparing civilian lives, the US is strongly backing Israel’s relentless bombing campaign that has killed hundreds of children. According to the latest numbers, at least 2,808 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, including 853 children and 936 women.
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What a jackass.
That’d be a compliment. More like a horse’s ass.
Please stop disparaging horses’ asses.
How can anyone take this auto-embarrassing, real-life Smurf seriously? The blue cartoon characters have immeasurably better creds.
so it falls on the US to not only give mucho aid to Israel every year, but to also pay for their upcoming war as well ? hey what if uncle sam just rolls Israel over with the Ukraine into some kind of “axis of the good guys” – they could market that BS on TV “Axis Of The Good Guys War On Evil-doers!” (brought to you by Schlitz Malt Liquor)
what
These are all Uncle Sam’s wars.
And what about the 3 Billion that Egypt gets every year?
The price for betraying Palestine… It’s gone up since the old days, 30 pieces of silver doesn’t buy what it used to ✝️🇵🇸✝️
Good catch. That should be added to the number cited for aid to Israel, since it’s just a “be nice to us” bribe on Israel’s behalf.
Same with a billion or two a year to Jordan.
https://www.state.gov/u-s-relations-with-jordan/#:~:text=The%20United%20States%20is%20Jordan's,Department%20Foreign%20Military%20Financing%20funds.
$1.3 billion. Minus $200 million for human rights abuses. As big of a joke as that $200 million is, it’s still something Israel doesn’t have to worry about.
And who is she? War expert? Somebody who knows what is involved in wars, what type, and against what enemy to correctly predist costs? Did she calculate the costs of possible damage to US soul?
The US can certainly afford two wars in western Eurasia and at the same time pick fights with China, Iran and Korea.
Easy schmeasy when one does not mind falling life expectancy, declining education and crumbling infrastructure.
That’s why the oligarchs love old fart puppets in power. They don’t worry about the future because they personally have little remaining.
True. Good point. I always make same mistake. Believing that somebody actually cares. As Dickens put it in Christmas Carol. Ignorance and want – roots of all evil.
And who is she?
The fat lady who sings at the very end.
Oof.
She’s s Zionist with an honorary degree from Tel Aviv University Law School.
People like her, Biden and other incompetents fail their way to the top. Not the brightest, just willing to sell their souls to the biggies.
US can afford to fund all wars. The problem is that after the funding, some people will live in luxury and others have no money to pay the bills.
The other problem: those money will only increase the misery of ordinary people overseas, first of all of Arabs and Ukrainians.
I don’t believe the welfare of other peoples matters to the US and Israel.
Yes, yes, long live the Empire of the Global Oligarchate! who cares about Western Civ., much less the land of the free and home of the brave.
Mushrooms can sometimes have long lasting consequences to those who ingest them.
I can’t say for sure but I would hope that her parents didn’t have any other children when they saw what their goo had produced.
One nasty comment.
Janet has an older brother, John (born 1942), who is a program director for archaeology at the National Science Foundation.
Ok, they at least got a son before the troll was hatched on the scene.
I never thought of whether the US could afford two wars when I did ‘shrooms. Never entered my mind. Maybe we should encourage her to eat some.
I don’t think you understand much about hallucinogens and their effects.
I’m sure you do.
Yes, you’re right. I do. And it’s rather pathetic that you think that amounts to a snappy comeback when you’ve just been challenged over a stupid and clueless post about something you know absolutely nothing about.
You should stop.
Maybe you’re the one who should stop.. That stuff has you raving like poor Yelling Yellin.
For sure, from taxpayers funds…! US can only fund wars… Not able to fight them….!
“Yellen said the House needs to elect a new speaker so the new funding could be authorized.”
Those of us in America should take heed. It’s not a matter of voting Democrat or Republican but rather voting in a fashion to create gridlock that’s the only hope of slowing down the Neoperialist machine.
You may consider Kennedy…!
He might not want to fund Ukraine, but I’d bet he’s on board with funding Israel.
There are no choices. And since West shifted to yet another party, it’s unlikely he will even get enough ballots.
RFK Jr is s most rabid Zionist.
He is an insane apologist for Israeli war crimes.
He is, but he’s also the one most likely to create the gridlock that will get Israel funding gummed up. It’s not about turning the car around anymore; now it’s a matter of trying to figure out how to dump sugar into the engine.
Kucinich just bailed on him as campaign manager.. Replaced with a CIA spook.
Kucinich did what any competent campaign manager would likely have done. The office of president, to at least some degree, involves situations where you have to make up your fucking mind. Going from Party A to Party B to “independent” in four months is the opposite of making up one’s fucking mind and is basically the functional equivalent of jumping up and down while screaming “nobody should take me seriously.”
… jumping up and down while screaming “nobody should take me seriously.”
Well, he can stop now, we got the message.
His undying love for all things Israel would normally be a turnoff, but if gridlock’s the game, Kennedy’s the name!
Point taken,a National strike would be a good start.
Why do they all talk like Llyod Austin? Isn’t one brain dead secretary of defense enough?
They need more than one brain dead…! Remember US scheme…repeat the lie multiple times until it would appear to be truth…!
Orwell was a genious,he saw this coming. What was fiction has become reality.
‘1984’ and ‘Helter Skelter’ were prophetic, but the timing was off, a little late, but BFD, it’s all coming true!
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US debt before WW2 was around 50% and jumped up to about 120% at the end of WW2. Today our debt is around 130%. How are we going to finance a war at 200%?
Yeah? What do you care lady, it’s not Your money…
Yes yes, the US can afford to bleed Russia in Ukraine, drown Israel in even more bombs to kill civilians on top of the billions in cash and weapons we routinely give them for no good reason, AND provoke a war with China over Taiwan.
Or, we can build a sane and peaceful world, where helping friends doesn’t mean helping friends kill their neighbors.
This will happen when pigs fly and bears use charmin.
The beginning of the End of the empire unchecked arrogance.
So happy to learn from Jellin Yellin that we can fund the Ukraine war and the Israeli war on it’s Arab citizens, but how do these places thousands of miles away really benefit the average American resident, citizen & taxpayers We give money to all the trouble makers that can’t even live in peace with their own people to risk all life in war with Russia.
Protect the hive.
So she does remember which country she lives in. “We,” that’s funny.
Shouldn’t a treasury secretary only concern herself with nuts and bolts regarding the U.S. economy? Of course, that’s not her priority. She knows that propping up Zelensky and Netanyahu hurts the Americans, but they exist to be fleeced for the people who matter.
Imagine if Britain had responded to IRA attacks by cutting off Belfast from all water, food and electricity, preventing all inhabitants from leaving, and then bombed neighborhood after neighborhood, bombed Belfast churches and hospitals and apartment buildings, using a thousand bombs a day, with the excuse that “there are IRA members there”.
And any protests would be called “anti-Britishism”.
What would Janet Yellen have said about that? But of course, when it’s ISRAEL, then no rules apply.
As one of the illegal settlers says when filmed while he steals a Palestinian home, “Fuhck you, we’ll kill you and the Palestinians. God gave me this land.”
Just like ISIS.
“And any protests would be called “anti-Britishism”.”
Nae worries about that. As a descendant Scotsman with a trace of the Oyresh in me, I’d be the first to denounce the Anglesh devils.
“Come out ye black and tans
Come out and fight me like a man
Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders
Tell her how the IRA
Made you run like hell away
From the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra”
Yellen holds an honorary degree from Tel Aviv University Law School.
Just another snake in the grass.
Yes, the most powerful nation in history that lost wars to Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya…!
Funny you should mention these facts. Some people running this country are wrong and delusional.
“the most powerful nation in the history — not in the world, in the history of the world.”
Yes ! Unlike the Roman Empire. What did the Roman Empire ever do for its citizens ? Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health ?
I mean, the USA has done at least TWO of those things, right ?
The US is broke, a gazillion dollars in debt and still running deficits. If that isn’t a failed state, what is? And, yet the people are being forced to pour in more money and maybe blood for something that doesn’t concern anybody but the people in gov. that benefit from all those MIC and AIPAC campaign funds.
Why the fuck not> we are the self appointed cops of the world deciding who lives and who dies.As long as the peoples money flows to the MIC and the domestic side is ignored the US is on the way to becoming a failed state albeit with a bunch of Nukes and the means of delivering them to any country that elects to argue the point.
“a failed state albeit with a bunch of Nukes”
A gas station with nukes. And an AM/PM with Slim Jims and 12-packs of Coors !
$1.7 Trillion deficit is $17,000 in debt for every working American family. Forget about the myth that corporations will pay it. Any taxes they pay are operating expenses that just get added to the
price of goods and services they sell to the public. Notice the prices of goods and services? Much higher. Inflation is a tax. Those like Yellen don’t pay it as they get offsets to increases in prices caused by profligate government spending.
Wars cost. Not the least of those costs are are dead and maimed human beings. Again, the ruling class don’t pay that price either.
Most voters probably had no idea that Joe Biden is a warmonger who salivates at the possibility of starting 3 wars at the same time: Ukraine, Gaza, and Taiwan. (Perhaps Iran too) At least they know now.
I did realize that he planned to spend billions for another stimulus. That seemed reasonable at the time. But this demented old man is obsessed with spending. That’s going to hurt a lot more than he expected as interest rates rise.
Demented is putting it mildly.
“We’re the United States of America for God’s sake”
…and that’s becoming a HUGE problem.
After moving significant troops to the Middle East who does the US intend to fight? The US has assembled a war fleet. And Hamas is NOT its target.
The real aim of this build-up is to finally ‘regime change’ Syria. The lunatics in the White House may well think that they now have a chance to eliminate Russia’s presence in the Middle East.