President Biden on Thursday night delivered a speech from the Oval Office making his case for the US continuing to fund the proxy war in Ukraine and Israel’s onslaught on Gaza.
Biden said he will ask Congress on Friday to authorize more spending for the Ukraine war and “unprecedented” military aid for Israel. Media reports say the request will be for about $100 billion and will also include aid for Taiwan, which China will view as highly provocative, and funding for border security.
About $60 billion is expected to be for Ukraine as the White House wants to pass a spending package on the war that will last through the 2024 election. Israel is set to receive about $10 billion in military aid, and the rest will go toward the border, Taiwan, and potentially other areas in the Asia Pacific.
In his speech, President Biden attempted to draw comparisons between Hamas and Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Hamas and Putin represent different threats, but they share this in common: they both want to completely annihilate a neighboring democracy, completely annihilate it,” he said.
The president claimed it was America’s duty to get involved in these foreign wars and that it would keep Americans safe even though the proxy war in Ukraine makes nuclear war much more likely, and US support for Israel’s bombardment of Gaza is stirring up anti-American sentiment around the world.
“American leadership is what holds the world together. American alliances are what keep us in America safe. American values are what make us a partner nation you want to work with. To put all that at risk – we walk away from Ukraine, we turn our backs on Israel – it’s just not worth it. That’s why tomorrow I’m going to send to Congress an urgent budget request to fund America’s national security needs – needs to support our critical partners, including Israel and Ukraine,” Biden said.
Unf—-ing believable!!! Have we gone fascist or insane?! We have got the bloody lunatics running the asylum!!! Can our perfect, insulated world get any crazier than it already is?! I never thought I would live to see WWIII!
Donna. You are polite, even when you’re cursing.
Lol, true. I don’t know how she does it.
Purity of heart.
We could use more.
Ah, yes.
Actually, those questions have a simple answer: Yes.
Both. Our leaders are insane and the incipient fascism that has been festering in America since WWII has metastasized. I’m optimistic that no one will go the nuclear route, but things are going to get messy from here on out. Make sure you are surrounded by people you love and can count on. Start growing your own food and make sure you have the means to protect your community. God help us.
“the incipient fascism that has been festering in America since WWII has metastasized”
More like since World War I. The early American Legion was of a piece with the German Freikorps/SA and Italian Blackshirts (they even invited Mussolini to come to the US to address their national convention). It’s devolved over time to more of a drinking/reminiscing club since the second (1933) Bonus March got bought off by FDR as part of his elected fascist operation (the “New Deal”) absorption of most of the troublesome political fragments without having to resort to Night of the Long Knives style purges.
True, that is an interesting history. I was more thinking of the literal Nazis that were absorbed into the U.S. military/intelligence apparatus after the war, and the influence and modes of thought that they brought to the table. As you note, though, we must not downplay the homegrown elements of our American fascism.
Yeah, the CIA especially seems to have been a “full employment for Nazis” program.
The thing about fascism is that it’s just another label for what Burnham referred to in 1940 as “the managerial state” that was sweeping the world. The difference between FDR’s US / Churchill’s UK on one side, Hitler’s Germany / Mussolini’s Italy / Tojo’s Japan on the other, and Stalin’s USSR (which started on one side and ended up on the other) was mostly … well, branding.
As it’s been almost a decade since I’ve read deeply on early 20th century fascism so I can’t remember the historian’s names off hand, but there are several who have documented in detail the strong similarities between European fascism and FDR’s massive reformation of the American federal government. Yes, branding, and the fact that we came out of WWII king shit so we could call ourselves whatever we wanted and write history accordingly.
Another Golden Nugget! You are on FIRE, Thomas!
We have the Dulles brothers and their cohorts for the state we are in. They effectively neutralized Eisenhower who had good instincts.
Please enlighten me why the “New Deal” was fascist. I was taught that the New Deal,while imperfect,put people to work and improved the lives of the destitute.It saved American democracy from desperate people shifting to the communists.
Other variants of fascism also claimed that they “put people to work and improved the lives of the destitute.” And claimed to have saved the countries they infested from communism.
The Nazis and Mussolinists certainly considered the New Deal to be based on their own foundational principles. Hitler said that he was “‘in accord with the President in the view that the virtue of duty, readiness for sacrifice, and discipline should dominate the entire people. These moral demands which the President places before every individual citizen of the United States are also the quintessence of the German state philosophy, which finds its expression in the slogan ‘The Public Weal Transcends the Interest of the Individual.'” Mussolini applauded its “principle that the state no longer leaves the economy to its own devices.”
And the admiration was mutual. FDR called Mussolini’s rule of Italy “the cleanest, most efficiently operating piece of social machinery I’ve ever seen. It makes me envious.”
The initial version of the National Industrial Recovery Act included outright universal labor conscription, but fortunately the Supreme Court nixed that and FDR had to settle for “voluntary” programs like the CCC.
Even leaving out Hitler’s fandom for American eugenics programs, FDR’s internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry, etc., the political systems were pretty much identical.
I changed my mind. They are not golden nuggets. They are diamonds!
Putting US citizens to work got the economy going again,got people fed and gave dignity,and presented the left from gaining more popularity. all laudible goals.social security and land reclamation is not fascist,it is beneficial,
MAN! YOU NAILED IT! Every once in a while, you say something that makes me fall in love with your mind all over again, Thomas. I start thinking you are the most brilliant man out there. I forget about ever hating on you. Then you start pi$$ing me off with arguments over technicalities, little by little… …Well! Let’s not think about that right now. YOU NAILED IT, FRIEND! I COULDN’T AGREE WITH YOU MORE!
Donna; we probably won’t be alive after it.
There’s really no conceivable way that either one of these involvements make the American people safer. None. They are gratuitous efforts at empire and military corporatism that significantly increase risk to the nation and the people while wasting significant amounts of money that is severely needed back home.
Not our lives, but our material standard of living. The dollar hegemony the US has enjoyed since Breton Woods is under very real threat. Its loss would mean the market value of US Treasury debt would diminish and cause yield to rise. This de facto devaluation would mean inflation, much higher taxes to service the national debt, and greatly reduced consumption on every level, government to personal.
Pushing more wars and killing more people only accelerates that decline.
And it makes the US less safe physically because retribution begets more retribution.
I agree with you, but, sadly, the Neocons don’t. So, I am still of the opinion that dollar hegemony is actually what we are fighting for. The rest is just infantil bullshit.
I agree. It is also about a very desperate collapsing empire in general.
The Empire is kaput!
If dollar hegemony was the focus, it is being done very poorly, by methods that directly damage use of the dollar in international trade (example SWIFT) and as safe storage of sovereign wealth (asset seizures).
Yes, but the crux is they have no opther way. Sixty to Seventy percent of the US economy is financial. So, per necessity it’s become quintessentially a Warfare State.
That’s the only tool available, their only trump card.
Warfare states require endless financing. The Rothchilds will see to that as long as the profits keep rolling in. Such is the nature of conflict where the innocents ultimately pay the price
What do the “Rothchilds” have to do with this-do you know how heavily they are invested in Defense stocks? Or are they a symbol for something else-Blame the queen of England or Putin’s oligarch friends,or the CCP investors.
Certainly our material standard of living would take the first hit.
However, wars kill. Americans will die if we keep doing this.
Some may even be killed here at home. Missiles can fly to here too, and if we fire at their homelands, then they might well fire back at ours.
Wars run out of control. That is the one certain constant about wars.
You’re dead right. They’re playing Russian Roulette with all our lives.
The people in charge are insane psychopaths. And stupid as well.
In light of that, a news story on my feed today:
“Biden does better with voters on foreign affairs, suggesting he might benefit if voters are thinking less about inflation and more about the risks from wars in Israel, Ukraine, and other hotspots. His approval rating on the economy is around 37% according to Gallup. On his handling of Ukraine, 47% approve.”
The 47% approval might shift when Ukraine disintegrates, but until then, more wars seems to be a political winner for Biden. That might explain the “stupid.” They don’t care, so long as they win the next poll.
Also, he may be happy to wag the dog to get pressure off investigations.
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As MLK said in ’67, greatest purveyor of violence in the world today …
[and the largest exporter of terrorism], my add on to his speech at riverside
It really is quite an assembly of death and violence for political reasons in places that were none of our business except for the predatory nature of American Corporations and executed by Dulles and the CIA.
It will soon end. Financially, politically, morally America is approaching the end. It’s called over reach
Morally we have been bankrupt for some time. Politically we have been dead since Reagan. Financially we are over extended with debt and mass debt. I agree this won’t last much longer. It probably will get worse as our libertys{sic} are taken away.
Globalist Bankers and Globalist MICers….tyranny x2… Bipartisan Imperialism and Warmongering….what are the chances of yet another Elite FalseFlag??? and who or what would be the benefactors of the intervention?? what would be the PLANNED results for all Americans??? Collapse of Dollar? Worthless Paper fiat Legal Tender “Dollar” made illegal? Grid Collapse? Water and Food Chain shutdown? MARTIAL LAW??? or BIPARTISANLY ALL OF THE ABOVE?? ugh……
Any and all of these horrible things can or will happen as the Empire crumbles.
Someone needs to tell the squint eyed one that there was this guy many years ago who warned his country to avoid foreign entanglements. I think (I could be wrong) his name was George Washington. He was the first President of his country.
First and probably best … when you read that Farewell Address, you see where we were intellectually and politically and weep to compare to today where the Prez squints like Dirty Harry to look tough.
You just made my day.
Lol. Upvote for squint eye. Not a very effective facelift in the eye zone. But the rest of the face looks like it might blow any minute.
Agreed. LOL. Did you notice that he can’t blink anymore? Also, there is some sort of a hole developing in the corner of his nose.
Blech! I hadn’t noticed the hole, but I largely avoid listening to him, his voice is so grating to me.
That was a long time ago when perhaps there were relatively honest politicians, Those days are long gone.
He was right.however, US isolationism did not prevent Pearl Harbor. Different world.
Americans won’t buy Wars with Russia, Palestine and China all at the same time.
Excuse my edit; Americans can’t buy wars with Russia, Palestine, China, Iran and Korea all at the same time.
And war with Iran too
They can start them. That is “buying them” the same as Japan bought its Pacific War. Look how that ended for them.
Reminds me of Obama’s “Yes, we can.” We can chew gum, walk, go down stairs, go up stairs, ride bicycles, and run all at the same time especially when we turn 80.
Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow. Who wants to?
They don’t have to. Congress will.
Let us not forget our great enemy Iran,they are also on the chopping block.
Could there possibly be a stronger case for a psychological intervention? (Dare I call it a “red flag” action?) Unfortunately, the reflexive military interventions are already in play. As planned.
Evil!
“The president is expected to ask Congress for $100 billion for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and border funding”
Like throwing gasoline on the fire of of inflation.
Good thing congress isn’t doing much these days. Let’s hope they can keep the gridlock going! https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67141629.amp
100 mil for humanitarian aid for Gaza, 100 billion for WWIII. There you have Biden’s priorities.
Rubio wants to cancel the 100 mil for humanitarian aid for Gaza and give it to Israel.
As like other stooges Rubio is controlled and paid for by the Zionist cabal
When Influenza VIII breaks out,who will be blamed? The Zionist cabal does not exist.
Really? Well, you know, the Boca Raton vote could be important in his future.
There is no one who doesn’t suck at this point. Our government is ruled by psychopaths and sociopaths.
Yes, usually when you have a incompetent president there are usually some sane people in his administration that can keep him from going off the rails. Looking at this administration, I don’t see anybody that is much better than the mummy man in the White House.
We have passed the rubicon where there is no hope for sanity in the uniparty.
A criminal cabal run by this country’s elite. Are we ready to send our youth to fight for these people.
Pick your poison.
Let Iran and Saudi Arabia feed theGazans.
Rubio is an abcess on the body politic.
I like where you went with this and “abscess” is a good description. But in my mind still requires something more to indicate the severity or toxicity if you will. How about, a malicious boil on humanity’s a$$?
What could Americans do with 100 BILLION $$$?!
If the US gets into another WAR, there won’t be much of a world worth living in.
The MIC has got Bye-Done by the cajones!
Among many others.
Bide is a willing participant. The only difference from young warmonger Biden and old warmonger Biden is that his cajones now dangle between his knees.
He’s been a willing tool of the hawks ever since they brought him onto the Senate foreign relations committee to be their water boy.
I’m coming around to the POV that he’s actually a very mediocre person with an ugly grin.
Medicore would be a vast improvement.
And lizard tail.
That would be true if he ever had any.
Oh, well isn’t that convenient, as you blame MAGA budgets for our record increasing deficits, and you send billions of dollars for the war you started in Ukraine in 2014, and support a genocide in Gaza. What a morally bankrupt $h!twit. NO THANKS.
A pogrom by Hamas from is cool ?
3000 plus Palistini’s dead, for 1500 Israeli’s you got your revenge. Now negotiate peace.
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Great!
BBC News made a “mistake” while covering the immediate aftermath of an explosion outside a hospital in Gaza City, a senior member of staff at the national broadcaster admitted Thursday.
The Hamas terror organization blamed an Israeli air strike for the deadly attack on Tuesday, while the Israeli military said al Ahli hospital was instead hit by a fallen rocket misfired by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Hamas, not a reliable source, who knew???
This is how Empires die!
I posted this just now on Political Wire (probably will get me expelled):
More fairy tales… If I had a dollar (inflation) for every time I heard
a president give a Chicken Little speech before asking for money, I’d
be rich.
OG:
Time, is on your side, yes it is…!!!
I sense the presence of the sTONES
“Hamas and Putin represent different threats, but they share this in common: they both want to completely annihilate a neighboring democracy, completely annihilate it,” he said.
One place got rid of opposition parties and won’t hold an election. The other practices apartheid.
Right up Biden’s, uhh, alley?
I like your line of thought here, Wars. I worked on that equation for a long time: Democracy = (Apartheid + Genocide) * X. Then I realized Mandela was way ahead: https://youtu.be/NQyN4X0sFdA?si=tF-opqJwsksiuvdn&t=70
X = “THEY DON’T CARE”
President Joe Biden told Americans in an Oval Office address on the Middle East conflict Thursday that he had spoken with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on his visit to the region this week — but a Palestinian source says he did not.
Bribe-n is a “lying, dog-faced, pony soldier.”
He always has been a disaster waiting to happen. Guess what it is happening.
Ape!
So, this is what it feels like to be German..
This is what damnation feels like.
i saw his speech on TV – people say that “he is losing it” and that “he has dementia” etc –
but the reality is that he is almost as sharp as a tack. almost.
he is not any kind of dim-wit, unlike Trump who seems like some kind of a drug addict.
so the US could be in a lot worse shape than it actually is right now.
ok that being said, the state of the rest of the world is unfortunate – our POTUS’s have had the power to fix the entire world many times over but not a single one of them has ever even tried to do so. Carter has made an effort, after the fact, with his Habitat For Humanity program which is laudable but at no time was his program endorsed by the PTB while he was in office.
anyway, “Biden, blah blah blah…” right?
hey we should count our blessings that Trump is not the POTUS because his every move would be to funnel US money into his own pockets.
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right then, Biden is not fixing the world, but the reality is that no other MF will fix it either.
“i saw his speech on TV”…? Wow! How could you? …Oh? You learned how to survive torture in “Spy school?” You’re better than me. I did well when I had my finger nails pulled and was “water boarded,” but failed when they put him up on TV.
Yeah. Can’t stand his voice. It’s like a talking scare crow, but not the smart one in Wizard of Oz.
That’s because it is … a talking scarecrow.
Give me a break.
???
I was referring to one of his frequent sayings when questioned by anyone.
Thanks
Correction: Biden is actively destroying the globe and the US.
That was a terrible attempt to make Biden seem acceptable.
Yeah, my opinion of him hasn’t changed since his days making the Foreign Relations folks chuckle at his comical attempts at being a functioning member.
“Almost sharp as a tack” … yes, as in my swimming pool is almost as deep as the Marianna Trench … the man was a moron when he was in his 50s, he was famous for it in the Senate. And let’s say that unlike CA wine, he hasn’t improved with age …
President Biden and his sidekick Blinken want to attack normal Palestinian people who have been driven to terrorism by living in apartheid prison hell where their land is stolen and they are viewed as sub-human. President Biden wants Americans to attack Palestinians who have become raging insane with desire for revenge from loss of dignity and loved ones killed by Israelis.
Biden and Blinken want to attack people driven to extreme revenge insanity by apartheid land-theft and murder of friends and family. Yes Palestinians retaliated with an atrocity designed to force the oppressors to show their hand, Israelis must now invade Gaza for street battle against fearless living-dead waiting for them among the rubble with advanced Ukrainian black-market weapons.
Oppressors have made monsters of those attempting to live as best as possible under psychopathic religious state oppression. Israel made the rules of this ugly game and Israel wants US citizens pay for it.
The US treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, says we can certainly afford two wars in western Eurasia and at the same time pick fights with China, Iran and Korea. It’s easy schmeasy when one does not mind falling life expectancy, declining education and crumbling infrastructure here in the American homeland.
Why should Americans pay for an apartheid Jewish religious state posing as a democracy? Peace in the holy land is as easy as converting Palestine to a secular democracy and restoring the homes of violently displaced Palestinians.
I don’t believe that the Palestinians will ever get their land back.
Hamas rejected Oslo,rejected every other peace proposal,every negotiation, and stil lspeaks of from the river to the sea.They are in large measure responsible for what is to befall the Gazans.
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I’m getting my checkbook out……………………..Hmmm…………………….
Ah, I forgot, I don’t have one anymore……..
“ American leadership is what holds the world together.”
That, in a nutshell, is the secular wet dream and the source of delusion and megalomania that drives wars with its binary way of viewing the world.
ISRAEL POLICY OF BOMBING CHURCHES NOW WON’T GO OVER WITH ANY CHRISTIANS EXCEPT THE DELUDED CHRISTIAN ZIONIST FACTION.
Israeli Military Claims Responsibility for Church Blast in Gazahttps://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/israel-hamas-war-gaza-strip-conflict/card/israeli-military-claims-responsibility-for-church-blast-in-gaza-ItyUvoIPaeNBEsIeIS6J
Meanwhile, an ancient Synagogue in Tunesia was burned.
Eye for an eye trashes everyone’s temples. Christian, Jewish, Muslim. So far the Muslims haven’t trashed a Christian church yet, or Christians trashing Jewish and Muslim temples. But, Israel bombed the Orthodox church, didn’t they? Yes, they even admitted it. And, the blood thirst is jest getting started. Better find safer digs if you’re in Israel or Palestine.
Biden desires wars on many fronts: Israel, Russia, China, North Korea and Iran.
I have no idea as to how he hopes to accomplish this besides saying “bye-bye” to the United States.
Mexico is looking very desirable right now.
Mexico may not be far enough … I’m thinking maybe Uruguay …? But there’s no running away from global winter and fallout …
Cali, we deserve to be wiped out as a race.
The planet will eventually recover, and cockroaches will be better stewards of the earth than Homo Sapiens.
@WallStreetSilv
… the debt has grown from $31.4 trillion to $33.6 trillion in 4 months.
+$2.2 trillion in 4 months.
The debt is a cancer on all Americans not associated with the war mongers. It is growing quickly like to stage 4.
Biden’s biggest accomplishments are the increase of enemies, the implosion of NATO and the economic crash of the EU and even more national debt, and a world close to a major war if not a nuclear WWIII. Domestically he did nothing at all, the Infrastructure is still crumbling, we still lack funding for education, health care, decent housing and affordable quality child care for working parents, nothing has been done, he is all about more war and more MICC PROFITS AND CONGRESS IS NO BETTER.
Well said. Iget stuff on my Email from the Dems asking me for money to keep Biden in office so he can continue his program or as I see it his failures.If he is not the worst President ever he is pretty damn close
I have blocked them, I will not vote again because I will not vote for war criminals, that goes for both parties. Bombing civilians like the ISRAELIS with American funding are doing is genocide, I will not be part of that. I think the demented old man is the worst president in my lifetime. Had he picked competent people with honor and character and integrity and a moral compass he could have had a chance. He and his administration and the legislative branch of government are ****.
Nice reading your comments.You could be my political twin or sister.
It actually could be three or four armed conflicts with either Iran or Africa being chosen for destruction and the appropriate profits.
Of course Biden is in favor of funding multiple wars. Every dirt bag in DC profits from these wars.
With great passion and hatred: FJB!