Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will visit Washington this week to push for more aid as Congress is still negotiating a massive spending package that includes over $60 billion for Ukraine.
On Tuesday, Zelensky will meet with President Biden at the White House and hold talks with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). He was also invited by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to speak at an all-senators meeting, according to CNN.
Last week, Senate Republicans blocked a $111 billion spending bill that includes military aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan over an impasse with Democrats over border issues. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) also voted against the bill after criticizing the idea of more unconditional military aid for Israel.
The $111 billion spending package also includes funds for border security, but Republicans want changes to asylum laws to make it more difficult for migrants to enter the country. A source told Reuters that the Biden administration was open to the idea of immigration restrictions to get the bill passed.
While there is some GOP opposition to spending more on the proxy war in Ukraine, both McConnell and Johnson have expressed support for passing the new funding. Johnson said he was “confident” the House would authorize more aid for Ukraine before the holidays, although he later said it is “dependent upon enactment of transformative change to our nation’s border security laws.”
Zelensky’s visit to Washington comes as it’s become clear Ukraine has no chance of beating Russia on the battlefield. Sources close to Zelensky have said he “deludes himself” into believing Ukraine can win the war, and the Ukrainian leader is coming under more domestic scrutiny as there’s no end to the conflict in sight.
Zelensky is hiding in the US since his life is in jeopardy if he stays in Ukraine.
How about NO MORE MONEY FOR Zelensky!!!!
MUCH MORE money for the defenders of Ukraine!!!!
I’ve calculated that the collision of Critical_Thinker and Rational Thinker should, like a matter-antimatter reaction, provide enough pure energy to power Los Angeles for upwards of six weeks.
Poor Z … to be leading the unfashionable war is a tough deal … maybe some friends in investment banks can help raise some private funds?
… just wasn’t a brilliant enough ad man: the “Bucha atrocity” campaign isn’t even in the same league with the “40 beheaded babies”, now, “mutilated genitals”, campaign.
Zelensky is hiding in the US since his life is in jeopardy if he stays in Ukraine. Then again there are some Americans who also want Zelensky eliminated!
Give me money!
that new speaker of the house Mike Johnson is a freakin piece of work.
he held a rally where he told his fan-boys that “God has told me that I am the new Moses”.
what
One more very dangerous, ambitious, egomaniacal SOB.
“Messianic” and “Delusional”.
Yeah, The other dangerous, ambitious, egomaniacal SOB you are referring to must be Putin. Right?
Darnit, Donald – I just spend four months and a considerable amount of $$$ out-of-pocket to fix a problem in my jaw joint.
Your comments have me yawning with boredom so loud and so long I fear I have undone all the work the doc did.
That should be a disqualification for office right there … if you hear voices in your head telling you things, you are not fit to serve.
Make him wear a wire. God might slip up.
Tune into God through Mikey?
that was Jesus’ M.O.
“you can only reach God through me…”
that was Jesus’ M.O.
“you can only reach God through me…”
Is he the commandment guy? If so, Mike must be headed to Mar-a-Largo.
Mike Johnson makes Mike Pence look like a card-carrying Satanist.
Actually, no – I am a card-carrying TST member and I’d rather not tangentially affiliate myself with Pence in any fashion.
Redo : “Mike Johnson makes Mike Pence look like a Natural Law Party member.”
(Google the NLP – they actually ran for Federal office in Canada in 1993)
This is how the Israelis justify invading and occupying Palestine God told them it was theirs .
Must have been The same God who told Putin Ukraine was his and that he could invade and annex it, but none of you hypocrites have an issue with that.
ok and who was it that told Ukraine that Crimea was theirs?
was it God? or was it uncle sam.
It was the Soviet Union, and then the Russian Federation.
The people of Crimea have decided.
With AK-47s pointed at their heads.
Independent observers and those that actually opposed the secession referendum stated that the results were legitimate. No AK 47’s were needed.
But, of course, I guess in some peoples minds, becoming a second class citizen under a government imposed by a foreign power in a violent coup is desirable? Really? That’s your argument? Not rational thinking.
Wrong.
“From March 12 – 14, 2014, Germany’s largest pollster, the GfK Group, conducted a survey with 600 respondents and found that 70.6% of Crimeans intended to vote for joining Russia, 10.8% for restoring the 1992 constitution, and 5.6% did not intend to take part in the referendum.[40][41] The poll also showed that if Crimeans had more choices, 53.8% of them would choose joining Russia, 5.2% restoration of 1992 constitution, 18.6% a fully independent Crimean state and 12.6% would choose to keep the previous status of Crimea.[40]”
Note that only 12.6% would have chosen to remain under the boot of the Kiev puppet government.
Still wrong.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/many-signs-pointed-to-crimea-independence-vote-but-polls-didnt/
Pre Russian polling:
The United Nations Development Programme conducted a series of polls in Crimea between 2009 and 2011 about the question of leaving Ukraine and joining Russia with a sample size of 1,200:
Quarter Yes No Undecided
2009 Q3[34] 70% 14% 16%
2009 Q4[34] 67% 15% 18%
2010 Q1[35] 66% 14% 20%
2010 Q2[35] 65% 12% 23%
2010 Q3[35] 67% 11% 22%
2010 Q4[35] 66% 9% 25%
2011 Q4[36] 65.6% 14.2% 20.2%
Your source is not reputable. The earlier polling shows the same
results again and again.
FiveThirtyEight is owned by ABC News, which in turn is owned by the Walt Disney Company. ………Owned by a msm media company that pushed the Russia subverted the 2016 election hoax. In turn owned by Disney. Not convincing.
I can play that game too: you’re source is not reputable.
Note: I gave a reason why your source was not credible. That would be the historical bias demonstrated in a proven hoax.
You on the other hand? Nada.
Soviet dictators and a particularly weak and inept leadership of the Russian Federation after the Soviet collapse.
Ukraine’s government was overthrown by a coup instigated by an outside power in 2014. A referendum was held and the Crimean people decided to secede from the Ukrainian polity that was, in fact, run by a puppet government.
The Russian Federation re acquired Crimea after the referendum.
What makes you think the “will of the people” is any less dramatic production or any more actual consultation in Crimea than elsewhere?
Your sentence structure needs work.
Your argument also lacks merit. States do seek to have the population give acquiesce. It makes it simpler to rule them.
Given the anti Russian sediments of those that seized power in the 2014 coup, it isn’t a surprise that the people of Crimea chose as they did. It was a logical defensive move on their part.
Would it have been better if those than control states didn’t have the power to repress, manipulate and rob populations? Yes. Of course. Until that day comes we live in a world of lesser of evils.
I doubt we disagree on much here other than whether the fantasy creature “the people of” really exists.
No gods have been demonstrated to exist.
Therefore, no gods have ever told anyone anything.
Well, you didn’t seem to have a problem with the US financed and organized 2014 coup that started this whole mess did you?
“God has told me that I am the new Moses.”
Impossible. Historical evidence suggests Moses wasn’t a real person. And unfortunately, we have evidence that Johnson IS a real person.
Time to milk the cow…!
from Stars & Stripes
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WASHINGTON — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked the students and faculty of the National Defense University on Monday to put themselves in the shoes of his country’s troops as they await reinforcements in their fight against Russia.. . .Zelenskyy will meet Tuesday with members of Congress in an urgent bid to shore up support before lawmakers depart for a holiday recess on Friday. He is set to meet with senators as well as House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., who leads an increasingly skeptical Republican conference. . .
How to handle the panhandler Zelensky!
Here comes the Willy Loman of Ukraine.
More likely the opposite. U.S. is summoning him to discuss his future and how they will replace him. “Sorry Z, we are trading you to a villa in Italy so the General can step in.”
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