Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) introduced a resolution on Thursday that calls for an immediate end to US military and financial support for Ukraine and urges the warring sides to negotiate a ceasefire.
The Ukraine Fatigue Resolution was led by Gaetz and received 10 other co-sponsors. If passed, it would express that it is the sense of the House that “the United States must end its military and financial aid to Ukraine” and urges “all combatants to reach a peace agreement.”
Throughout the war, Gaetz has been critical of US support for Ukraine and has previously called for an end to the policy. “President Joe Biden must have forgotten his prediction from March 2022, suggesting that arming Ukraine with military equipment will escalate the conflict to ‘World War III,'” Gaetz said in a statement on his resolution.
“America is in a state of managed decline, and it will exacerbate if we continue to hemorrhage taxpayer dollars toward a foreign war. We must suspend all foreign aid for the War in Ukraine and demand that all combatants in this conflict reach a peace agreement immediately,” he added.
The other co-sponsors for the resolution are Reps. Andy Biggs (AZ), Lauren Boebert (CO), Paul Gosar (AZ), Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA), Anna Paulina Luna (FL), Thomas Massie (KY), Mary Miller (IL), Barry Moore (AL), Ralph Norman (SC), and Matt Rosendale (MT).
Gaetz’s resolution notes that the US has already authorized over $110 billion to spend on the war in less than a year. The introduction comes after a series of escalations of US military aid, including M1 Abrams tanks, and Ukraine is now seeking fighter jets from the US and its allies. Each escalation risks a direct clash between Russia and NATO, which could quickly spiral into nuclear war.
There is NO chance this will pass though Gaetz and the co-sponsors deserve applause. Anything that brings the entire dangerous charade to public focus is good.
Yes indeed, strange bed-fellows; but, stranger still the absence of the ‘leaders’ of the ‘left’, …
oh we will see the leaders of the left in action when they vote against this. anyway i have a feeling that gaetz and his fellow republicans are just proposing this bill to spite biden
It is likely only a dig at Biden, and will likely fail miserably. But it still changes the narrative away from the automatic KH viewpoint. Gotta start somewhere.
… “managed decline” is the key. They wish to save some/most aggression for Beijing, not spend it all on Russia. Hence, not peaceniks, but ‘enlightened’ imperialists, … perhaps getting their brief from RAND.
True. The so called “progressive left” has become sadly compromised by the war UniParty. My guess is a handful or so will be allowed to support the bill to cover their rear ends. That’s about it. When the DNC neutered Sanders the fix was in. Not that Sanders was ever what he pretended to be.
“My guess is a handful or so will be allowed to support the bill to cover their rear ends.”
I’d be shocked if one of them does.
Exactly, none of them “was ever what (they) pretended to be.” Best e.g., Biden’s State of the Union paid (as through his entire career) obligatory lip service to New Deal-ism, which he’s always opposed in practice; and, China as enemy #1, while he knows the Eurasion flank is the key.
“The Left” enthusiastically supported WW1 and WW2.
Eugene Debs, Norman Thomas, Mother Jones, etc….?
Now that Bakhmut is falling it’s definitely time for the leftists to realize that their hatred of “Trump was their agent!” Russia needs to be checked. They’ve ruined Europe’s economy. And there’ll be a lot of drunken Ukrainian men after the war is over, used to violence and sick of being unemployed in their ruined state. The social democrats will invite them all to Western Europe. Lots of violence ahead.
Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert and MTG are Amerikkka’s voice of reason?
We’re truly f*cked.
check ’em all out behind the scenes!
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Right back atcha.
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Indeed, we were that when Biden launched a war and declared it unprovoked, and then we fought it while pretending we did not.
This is like saying LBJ was antiwar, or that the only antiwar voice was the Goldwater loons who opposed him because they wanted a different and bigger war somewhere else.
I would rather not trade a war with Russia for a bigger war with China. If these people are truly antiwar, they should want peace with China as well as Russia.
I don’t want war with either Russia or China. However, I don’t think that you can have any bigger war than a war with Russia. Russia has 6500 nukes and China has 600. Additionally, when we have a war with Russia, we will be automatically at war with China.
Things are that bad when the GOP miscreants are the voices of reason.
This is a good thing whatever their motive. They do serve a purpose because Biden is our common enemy. But most of them want to focus on China and aren’t even a shade of being antiwar.
Knowing that this resolution doesn’t have even a remote chance of passing, the only reason for introducing it is to posture and provoke their fellow Republicans. The infighting in the GOP has reached epic proportions. They can’t agree on anything at this point except that they are all anti-Biden.
Biden is only a senile puppet. He’s very corrupt but controlled nevertheless. Our common enemy should be US Empire Imperialism, not some partisan fake and stupid BS. A lot of these rightists are no different than MSNBC watching liberals who based their politics on being against Trump. The right is doing the same with Biden.
I don’t disagree. However, that doesn’t mean Biden isn’t the enemy.
You should be more careful with your chosen words if you don’t want the Secret Service knocking on your door.
The Secret Service presumably has more than it can deal with tracking down things that might be plausibly construed as something resembling threats. Calling Biden “the enemy” or “fruit salad” or Spongebob Squarepants” raises no one’s eyebrow’s but yours.
https://journal-neo.org/2023/02/09/germany-has-made-the-decision-to-establish-its-own-nato/
Germany Has Made The Decision To Establish Its Own NATO.
Gesundheit!
Germany is reprising Weimar. The Nazis to follow.
“Germany is reprising Weimar. The Nazis to follow.”
don’t think so…govt looks increasingly far out of step w/public…
(12/22) “Poll: Large Majority of Germans Want Negotiations Between Ukraine and Russia Now
The wish for peace talks prevails among voters of every political party represented in the Bundestag”
and support keeps falling…
2/23 “German public support for Ukraine is falling” … “a Forsa Poll revealed that over 80% believe that it is more important to end the war with negotiations than for Ukraine to win, with only 18% disagreeing with that statement.”
note other big, continued shifts in above piece.
Yes but, …my thinking ran more to the “decline” theme, and Her twice now frustrated expansion (EU to United States of Germany). And popular German (as US) Kultur is decadent and incapable of resisting the policy imposition of the ruling elite who sees its survival as a class in neocon/neolib terms as well.
source please.
‘search’ the quotes
“Rep. Matt Gaetz Leads Resolution Calling to End Support for Ukraine, Pushes for Peace The Ukraine Fatigue Resolution is sponsored by Gaetz and 10 other GOP reps”
FINALLY! STOP THE MADNESS!
They keep this up, they might finally get my vote.
NO APOCALYPSE 2023.
I’m kind of a single issue voter: please don’t kill my family over great game bullshit.
But if we end this war, they’ll just think we have the means to start a nuclear war with China instead.
Remember the Daisy commercial Democrats used against Goldwater? They need to reuse that one against Biden.
I recall it well, A.
A young girl picking petals from a daisy while a mushroom cloud bloomed in the background.
Funny thing is that ol’ LBJ got us pretty damn close to that.
Gaetz Needs to check with US National Security. Because they disagree with his views.
I don’t like the name, Ukrainian Fatigue Resolution. Fatigue implies a time when you weren’t fatigued, that you used to support this warmaking but now no longer do. You’re complicit. Not me
While at the same time Social Security and Medicare are in danger ofvrunning out if funding.
Social Security is financing wars and foreign aid. The last remaining fund to be robbed.
Tell me about it, it already happened in Russia. Putin is taking everyone’s money to fund his SMO.
And the operative word is here his. A little different from taking American’s money to finance Ukraine’s war.
Somehow I can not buy Gaetz as a peacemaker.Trying to brand the Democrats as a war party when both parties are guilty of invasions and subverting peoples movements all over the world. Both Bushes as well as Obama and the Clintons have much blood on their hands promoting Capitalism,Imperialism and racism all over the world.
Agreed. It’s partisan team sports junk politics coming from Republicans. Shills.
Hie does exude that frat boy persona, and the media try to torch him for it but he is right on a bunch of topics.
Ukraine war
Assange
Snowden
I guess he’s like John Kerry or Trump were on Iraq. He was for the Ukraine funding before he was against it.
Should the U.S. provide military assistance to defend Ukraine from Russia?
Gaetz: Yes, the Russian invasion of the Ukraine threatens the balance of power in the region.
Should Ukraine join NATO?
Gaetz: Yes
Plus:
Should the government increase or decrease military spending?
Gaetz: Increase.
Should the military be allowed to use enhanced interrogation techniques, such as waterboarding, to gain information from suspected terrorists?
Gaetz: Yes
Should the military fly drones over foreign countries to gain intelligence and kill suspected terrorists?
Gaetz: Yes
Do you support the killing of Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani?
Gaetz: Yes
Should the U.S. formally declare war on ISIS?
Gaetz: Yes
Good info there, Wars.
They must be unaware that corruption overrules common sense in D.C..
Good for Rep. Gaetz; it’s about time Republicans came to their senses!
Pretty pathetic that a call for peace and to stop spending billions in a losing effort gets just 10 sponsors.
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Not throwing the entire planet into a nuclear furnace while snuffing out most of humanity is definitely a minority position in the West. For me there is no longer any doubt whatsoever, as a species we are not gonna make it.
Did you hear the one about the compromised President that mistook the full moon for a spy balloon and ordered his military to nuke the damn thing because he thought it was over his air space?
We did leave stuff on the moon… /s
I’m surprised to read a US congressman plainly saying “America is in a state of managed decline”, though I like to see it as the third world rising, but while congress can certainly “suspend all foreign aid for the War in Ukraine” it will then be in even less of a position to “demand that all combatants in this conflict reach a peace agreement immediately”, since money is the principal reason anybody listens to Washington, the other being violence. Congressman Gaetz needs to read his own copy and tone it down. Besides which if the US stopped funding Ukraine the words wouldn’t be “peace agreement”, they would be “immediate surrender”, and I expect Gaetz knows it.
Morons that believe Gaetz aren’t even worth listening to. The fascist party will do anything to make the ‘other side’ look bad if it makes them ‘look good’, but it’s not sincere, it’s not even well-intentioned. Take a look at the name of the co-sponsors if you need a hint.
https://www.rt.com/news/571372-lavrov-nord-stream-sabotage/
“US officials basically admit they blew up Nord Stream – Russian FM
The pipelines were sabotaged because Washington saw Russian-German cooperation as a threat, Sergey Lavrov has claimed”
The US is publicly stating, “We did it and we’re proud of our actions. What are you (Germany and Russia) going to do about it?”