Yevgeny Prigozhin’s brief rebellion against the Russian government has given hawks in Congress more ammunition to argue for additional spending on the Ukraine war, POLITICO reported Tuesday.
The argument is that the fractures in Russia are proof Western military support for Ukraine is working, even though the mutiny only lasted about 24 hours.
“I would hope what [the Wagner rebellion] does is reinforce to members of Congress, particularly some of my Republican colleagues, who were talking about not continuing funding Ukraine, that this is why it is important to make sure that we are funding Ukraine to push forward,” Gregory Meeks (D-NY), the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said Monday.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told reporters that it’s “hard to imagine” that Prigozhin’s mutiny is “bad news” for Ukraine. “If you look around the whole world right now, the single most important mission of the free world should be the defeat of the Russians in Ukraine,” he said.
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) said the Prigozhin’s uprising is a sign that the US must “remain fully committed to assisting our friends in Ukraine with the tools they need to defeat the Russian regime.”
The crisis in Russia came after House and Senate panels approved their versions of the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act. The NDAA is capped at $886 billion under the debt ceiling deal reached between the White House and House Republicans, but the limit does not apply to emergency supplemental funds, which is how spending on the Ukraine war has been authorized.
Three arms industry lobbyists told POLITICO that they believe the Prigozhin uprising will help hawks argue for a supplemental spending package for the Pentagon and Ukraine.
The White House is expected to ask Congress to authorize more spending on Ukraine via supplemental funds, but it’s not clear when that will happen. The Pentagon claimed last week that an “accounting error” has freed up an additional $6.2 billion that can be spent on military aid for Ukraine, giving the administration more time before it needs to make the request. So far, Congress has authorized $113 billion to spend on the war.
Looks like the long term effects of last weekend’s activities is to increase the clout of military hawks in both the US and in Russia.
The US seems committed to a 2 front war. Total Spectrum Dominance – we will see where it leads us to
This is shocking news (/s). I would bet that close to a dozen people commenting here pointed this out within hours after the mutiny was reported. We do know our warmongering congress.
I personally applaud the war party for their knee jerk reaction. At this stage it would be more perplexing if they reacted any different or God forbid change tact. I m hoping a moment will arrive when the American people will wake up and realize the true crisis in the world is not a 24 hr non event, but rather a close to 30 years of fleecing the public kitty all while they were sleepwalking to the polls yelling “Hell yeah, we exceptional, best military, best genders in the world, woo hoo Amerikah! Love it or leave it!” Its amazing how for a nation that is allegedly so woke, they sure act like their in a coma. Let the warmongers write themselves permanently into the public record, when shit finally (here’s to hope) hits the fan, there will be a trail of evidence. Outcome? “Fuvk that, no more taxes, no more taxes!”… A man can dream…
The “hawks” need to cam down. Russia seems to be acquiescing, welcoming peace efforts coming from the Vatican, no less…
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/06/28/kremlin-welcomes-vatican-peace-efforts-over-ukraine-a81680
Everything mean more Ukraine aid to these hawks. Progozhin. “Democracy.” “Accounting errors.” Next week’s horoscope. The fortune cookie slip. The stars align.
These hawks should just write the blank checks already and stop trying to come up with some lame excuse to support more bloodshed and the military industrial complex.
Defeat is certain: the whole world will lose on the course these morons are dead-set on.
The Great Ukrainian Counteroffensive failed. It was supposed to serve this political purpose, and it does not.
So now they must hype something else. And it is hyped, to an extreme. They are going full Jan. 6/Russiagate hyperbole on this.
Our leaders are liars. Simple as that, it is all lies, shameless.
There was no “mutiny”. Progozhin is in Belarus. I would surmise much of the Wagner Group is as well. Look at the map. Belarus border is 110 kn from Kiev.
This is why Russian hardliners are upset at Putin. He doesn’t go for the kill to end this perpetual spending. In Putin’s mind this is to bankrupt the U.S. But for others, it’s an agonizing experience watching that snail cross the lunch table.
In DC the neocon hardline crazies are on the lose, is that better than the disciplined, calm and competent Putin people?
How would the Biden/Nuland gang have handled it? Like Jan. 6?
Remember the US is already bankrupt, 39 trillion in debt and still running deficits. And, as it runs the printing presses, so will inflation keep increasing, but destroying the middle class is what this is also about.
JUST IN: “In an another slip of tongue, US
President Joe Biden mistakenly said that “pariah” Vladimir Putin is
“clearly losing the war in Iraq” while answering reporters on said
Wednesday.
Biden was referring it to the Ukraine war.
He made the similar gaffe on Tuesday when he told a group of re-election
campaign donors that he’d united the West in opposing Moscow’s
“onslaught on Iraq.” https://www.gulftoday.ae/news/2023/06/28/biden-mistakenly-says-putin-is-clearly-losing-the-war-in-iraq
“War! Good God Y’all! What is it good for?! Absolutely nothing!”
We keep funding the Ukrainians, we may find ourselves in direct conflict with the Russians…
Inhale……………………………………………………………
I’m prettty sure if that mutiny had never happened, that aid package would still be happening albeit with a different talking point to “sell” us as to the need for it.
The counteroffensive. Either way. Look, its going bad, we need more money. Or. Look, it’s going well, we need more money.
I always enjoy your sense of irony wars.
Public pronouncements of the reasons why politicians do things are usually lies or excuses.
Or, nothing is happening, we need more money. What is being “bled” is not Russia, but American taxpayers.
The piano door shut on Z’s dingaling.
It’s not enough that they are raiding social security:
US taxpayers may be shocked to learn that as their families grappled with fears of Social Security’s looming insolvency, the Social Security Administration in Washington sent $4.48 million to the Kiev government in 2022 and 2023 alone. In another example of bizarre spending, USAID paid off $4.5 billion worth of Ukraine’s sovereign debt through payments made to the World Bank — all while Congress went to loggerheads over America’s ballooning national debt. (Western financial interests including BlackRock Inc. are among the largest holders of Ukrainian government bonds.)
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/06/27/gravy-train-independent-audit-ukraine